Putin, Trump, Iran and Netanyahu
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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We're watching the perils of strongman rule around the world- why haven't we learned that it's the little guy who always gets squashed by these kinds of leaders?
Plus- Dr Bandy Lee muses on the psychology of escaping the allure of violence. Are we already circling a WWIII death spiral?.. And, Phil Itner reports the latest on the war from Kiev, Ukraine.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Putin, Trump, Iran, and Netanyahu, |
| 0:19.0 | who unveil a terrifying perils of strong man rule. We'll get to that in just a moment. |
| 0:24.1 | Also there's a new secret internal Russian intelligence document that has been |
| 0:29.2 | leaked somehow. The American press got a hold of it. It just explicitly lays out what |
| 0:35.1 | they're trying to do via people like Marjorie Taylor Green, trying to weaken and |
| 0:39.4 | ultimately destroy America. The title of my op-ed today over at heartman report.com is about |
| 0:46.1 | Putin, Trump, Iran, and Netanyahu unveiling the terrifying perils of strong man rule. |
| 0:51.5 | And you know I tell a story well first of all of strong man rule. |
| 0:52.6 | And I tell a story, well first of all, |
| 0:55.3 | the most amazing thing about Donald Trump's trial |
| 0:58.8 | is that it's even happening. |
| 1:01.9 | Something that would not happen in Hungary. It would not happen in Russia. It would not |
| 1:06.1 | happen in Iran or Turkey or China. Those countries run by authoritarian strongmen do not see their leaders put on trial. |
| 1:16.8 | Until or unless there's basically a coup. |
| 1:20.8 | And that's not going to happen here |
| 1:22.8 | so it's pretty amazing i mean trump has said that if he becomes president again |
| 1:27.4 | he's going to make sure that this kind of trial never ever happens |
| 1:30.8 | he wants absolute a man the immunity for himself and his cronies. In fact, he's going to argue |
| 1:36.6 | that before the Supreme Court next week. I believe it's next week, April 25th. I think that's next Thursday thank you Sean and you |
| 1:46.7 | know if he has his way nobody aligned with him will ever again be prosecuted these |
| 1:52.0 | countries you know Hungary Hungary, Russia, Iran, Turkey, China, they're all |
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