Is Donald Trump a threat to our Republic? Thom powerfully lays out the specifics on Trump's history as a grifter. And now is he running America's finances as an extension of his schemes? Guest Paul S. Ryan has been writing about the damage Trump is doing to democracy, and David Cay Johnston has the dirt on the possible cocaine trafficking behind Trump's newly revealed tax returns.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 9 May 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Is Donald Trump a threat to our Republic? Thom powerfully lays out the specifics on how Trump's deliberate defiance of the constitution fits in with his history of a grifter who thinks the law doesn't apply to him. ~~~ Can Donald Trump and Paul Ryan escape justice by delaying the Mueller investigation, Bill Barr's contempt of court charge, and other legal issues until after the 2020 Election? Scary thought- but worse is what kind of permanent damage Donald Trump and the Republicans can do if justice is not served. Paul S. Ryan joins us to discuss how we can hold Trump accountable while we still have a democracy to do so. ~~~ What powers do the Capitol police hold? What presidents have defied the Supreme Court and Congress? Without politicians who put country above party, how can the system of checks and balances survive? Does the constitution have an Achilles' heal? Ed in California has an idea for a fix. ~~~ Thom continues his thoughts on the risk to the fate and future of America as a functioning Republic under the mismanagement of Trump. Is he running America's finances as an extension of his schemes? Trump continues to take actions typical of authoritarian rulers, from cutting power to the Venezuelan Embassy to pulling press passes of reporters who criticize the president. And with the 24/7 Fox News-Murdoch-hate radio propaganda backing him up, many Americans don't even know what is happening. ~~~ Bob Ney with Talk Media News drops in with the inside story of the Trump Jr. subpoena fight. ~~~ Pulitizer prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston- veteran Trump-watcher of many years- has the dirt on the possible cocaine trafficking behind Trump's newly revealed tax returns.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And greetings by friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers in peace, freedom in the American way. |
| 0:24.6 | Wow, Nancy Pelosi and others, there's just a bunch in the news here. |
| 0:28.3 | Nancy Pelosi and others are declaring a constitutional crisis. |
| 0:31.2 | She actually went on TV today and said, |
| 0:33.4 | yep, that's what's going on. This is a constitutional crisis, |
| 0:36.4 | which means that our constitutional form of small-R |
| 0:41.8 | Republican government, that is government within a republic that |
| 0:46.3 | operates through the principles of democracy, you could call it a Democratic |
| 0:50.6 | Republican, our Republican democracy democracy is actually at risk. |
| 0:55.0 | Barr and McConnell are violating many of the norms of behavior that have kept our |
| 0:59.5 | republic strong and functioning since its birth and the simple fact is that if the executive |
| 1:04.5 | branch rises up and defies the legislative and judicial branches of our |
| 1:10.8 | government then there's actually no real mechanism to stop them. If |
| 1:15.6 | Bill Barr just defies Congress, if Donald Trump for that matter just defies Congress. |
| 1:20.2 | The only mechanism to stop either one of them is impeachment. |
| 1:25.0 | It's very straightforward. |
| 1:26.5 | As Alexander Hamilton said in the Federalist Papers, |
| 1:30.4 | the Supreme Court has neither sword nor purse, right? |
| 1:35.0 | In other words, they can't appropriate money and they can't execute the laws. |
| 1:39.0 | You know, they don't have police powers. |
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