OUR REPUBLIC IS BEING DISMANTLED
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has officially ended one of the most important parts of the American experiment by demanding that an independent Department of Justice go easy on one of his buddies. By taking on the judicial powers of convicting and sentencing, Trump has turned our “system of laws, not men“ on its head. This is the sort of thing you see in Erdogan’s Turkey, but never in an advanced democracy. Bill Barr and Donald Trump have committed a complete repudiation of one of the most important of the values and structures that made this country a democratic republic. Four brave federal prosecutors have stood up to this and resigned, but if there is not an overwhelming and systematic response to Trump’s subversion of the American justice system, our republic is at an end. November may be too late.
And why aren't Democrats prepared to raise hell over this?
Other topics include.. nominating Alexander Vindman for the JFK Profiles in Courage award... Could Bill the Cat's hairballs beat Donald Trump?.. Will many at MSNBC continue to attack Bernie if he gets the nomination?.. And why we can't keep up the circular firing squad.
Plus Thom reads from the new book 'The Triumph of the Homewreckers' by Aaron Glantz and from 'Rendezvous with Oblivion' by Thomas Frank.
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| 0:00.0 | Deborah's home was stolen. I don't mean thieves stole stuff. I mean |
| 0:04.4 | scammers literally stole her home. The FBI calls title theft one of the |
| 0:08.9 | fastest growing white collar crimes and this story is why you need home title lock. Deborah |
| 0:14.4 | says criminals found the title to our home online and filed fraudulent documents |
| 0:19.2 | claiming they owned our home. Wait, it gets worse. Deborah goes on to say I was evicted from my own home and |
| 0:26.1 | 85 grand in equity gone. Nobody believes you can get your home stolen this easily. This is why you need home title lock because no |
| 0:34.9 | insurance or bank protects your home from title theft. First things first. |
| 0:38.6 | Go to home title lock.com and register your address to see if your home's title has been |
| 0:43.9 | tampered with. You need to protect the legal title to your home so you don't end up |
| 0:48.2 | like Deborah. Go to home title Lock.com now for 60 risk-free days of protection. Again that's home title Lock. |
| 0:53.0 | Again, that's Home Title Lock.com. |
| 0:56.0 | Home Title Lock.com. This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 1:15.0 | You know, there are times when I think that the only two people in the media, I said this a couple of days ago, |
| 1:20.0 | I'll say it again, the only two people in the media who are taking seriously what |
| 1:23.2 | Donald Trump is up to are me and Bill Maher talking about how it appears |
| 1:27.7 | increasingly that we're not just like heading in the direction of fascism or tinpotism or |
| 1:36.8 | the end of democracy or whatever phrase you want to use to describe it, but we're |
| 1:41.6 | there. I mean Donald Trump has officially ended one of the most important |
| 1:46.1 | parts of the American experiment by demanding that an independent Department of Justice go easy on one of his buddies, specifically Roger Stone. |
| 1:56.3 | One of the guys who's got the goods on him. |
| 1:57.8 | Roger Stone could testify about things that would put Donald Trump in jail. |
| 2:02.9 | Probably going all the way back to the 1980s |
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