Orbán is Giving the GOP Lessons on "Soft Fascism" at CPAC & They're Taking Notes
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
For 20 years, Hungary was a functioning democracy; today, it’s a corrupt neofascist oligarchy. Europeans refer to it as “soft fascism” - Orban succeeded in pulling off what Donald Trump tried…
Did Trump sell classified documents he stole to the Saudis and others? Are we shocked? In TX doctors are being forced to report "fake " abortion "complications" under threat of losing their jobs. Michael Fanone claims CNN declined to run op-ed critical of network for hosting Trump town hall - hmmm....Isn't this the one person they should hear from? Victoria Jones - Coronation of King Charles...and the future of the monarchy / PLUS, the UK elections...will the Tory party finally be voted out?! Is the banking crisis deepening? Pigeon Alert! The robots from the planet xenu are putting out misinformation again, and they have invented a new coverup - I'll fill you in.
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| 0:47.5 | Well, one of the more, uh, well, I was going to say well buried, but it really wasn't so much buried as |
| 0:55.3 | it was overlooked. I think stories in yesterday's news was that Jack Smith and his investigation |
| 1:02.8 | of Donald Trump has basically subpoenaed everybody at Mar-a-Lago and the security tapes at Mar-a-Lago. |
| 1:12.4 | And now because there are giant gaps in the security tapes, which people are speculating |
| 1:18.4 | were times when Donald Trump was hiding and stealing top secret classified government documents, |
| 1:26.3 | the Jack Smith investigation, the Department of Justice investigation, the special counsel investigation |
| 1:31.1 | has now subpoenaed the software company that control that, oh, you know, that programs the cameras, |
| 1:39.2 | the, you know, the sold Trump the system. They're going to get to the bottom of this. |
| 1:45.2 | And increasingly, a lot of, and they're at the same time, they're also subpoenaing documents from |
| 1:51.0 | Donald Trump about how much money he got from the Saudis for the live golf tour. You'll recall the |
| 1:57.1 | live golf tour started just a few months after Donald Trump left office. And the speculation now, |
| 2:03.9 | I mean, the Saudis are not, you know, famous golfers, right? I think the speculation now is that |
| 2:09.3 | this was merely a vehicle to transfer money into the pocket of Donald Trump, presumably hundreds |
| 2:17.6 | of millions, maybe even billions of dollars. Now, why would the Saudis do that? Well, that raises |
| 2:25.6 | an interesting question. Is it that the documents that Donald Trump stole from the government were |
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