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🗓️ 2 September 2020
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As news breaks that Trump was warned specifically that Russian operatives were working to distort out election (and he did nothing) will Trump again succeed at distracting us? And will the Grifter-in-Chief keep the public from seeing his tax returns?
Economist Richard Wolff considers what an American Depression might look like and how Biden could learn from FDR on how to turn things around!
Plus- Common people struggle to pay rent while the rich get another trillion dollar bailout- why can we afford reparations- but for white billionaires? And Thom reads from his book 'Unequal Protection- How Corporations Became People'.
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0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
0:17.0 | So remember back in the summer in August of 2000 or 2001, excuse me, when George W Bush, the CIA flew a guy down to Crawford, Texas to hand him |
0:28.0 | a memo in person that said bin Laden determined to strike inside the U.S. |
0:32.1 | Well, apparently we've got a, you know, |
0:35.9 | a modern version of that. Now there was a memo that was put together. This is according |
0:40.6 | to ABC News. A bulletin was created by security and officials |
0:44.5 | at the Department of Homeland Security in early July. |
0:48.0 | It contained warnings that Russia was going to carry out operations |
0:51.5 | to promote, quote, this is from the intelligence community, quote, |
0:54.4 | allegations about the poor mental health of Democratic presidential |
0:58.2 | candidate Joe Biden. The draft report by the analyst had quote high confidence that Russian maligned influence |
1:05.6 | actors would attack Biden with claims of poor mental health quote to influence the outcome |
1:10.9 | of the 2020 election. |
1:12.1 | Now that analysis influence the outcome of the 2020 election. |
1:13.9 | Now that analysis, this was in July, July 9th. |
1:18.7 | And that analysis was supposed to go out to the states and you know and basically to the |
1:26.9 | American public as well I believe but specifically to the states. |
1:33.6 | And two days before it was released, |
1:35.6 | the DHS Chief of Staff John Gowanus |
1:39.4 | blocked the release with a note asking that the bulletin be held until it could be |
1:44.1 | discussed with Chad Wolf, the guy who claims to be the head of Department of |
1:48.4 | Homeland Security, but according to the law and according to the Inspector |
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