RACE TO THE BOTTOM
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Who has been the worst president of the United States? Has Trump's incompetence, xenophobia, and law breaking eclipsed the damage done by G.W. Bush by killing at least 15,000 Americans by invading Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing back torture, and taking away many of our civil liberties?
And can compacts between the states fill the gap in leadership and responsibly re-open the country without soaring death rates? Or will Trump's bias against the blue states start to take its own toll?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And greetings my friends, Patriots, |
| 0:19.0 | Lovers of Democracy, Truth and Justice, |
| 0:21.0 | Believers in Peace, freedom in the American way. |
| 0:24.3 | I wanted to start out by just asking a fairly simple question. |
| 0:28.5 | Over the weekend we saw George W Bush go to the Lincoln Memorial on Fox News. He did a two-hour rally on Fox News. |
| 0:35.0 | Said everything's good, everything's happy, we're gonna, you know, put this all back together, |
| 0:39.6 | don't worry, vote for me, all this kind of stuff. and he said he'd been treated worse than |
| 0:45.1 | Lincoln. All right, ask Mary Todd Lincoln about that and at the same time over the weekend |
| 0:55.0 | George W Bush put out a little short |
| 0:59.0 | three four minute video about how we all need to come together |
| 1:02.0 | this is a time for National Unity. |
| 1:05.0 | Just like he did after 9-11, you'll recall. |
| 1:08.0 | He lied us into two wars that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Afghans and Iraqis. |
| 1:15.0 | Over 15,000 dead Americans, 7,000 of them troops, 8,000 plus of them contractors. |
| 1:25.1 | The two wars that he lied us into |
| 1:27.0 | then spilled over into other regions. |
| 1:29.6 | And now we've got a civil war going on in Syria. |
| 1:32.1 | You've got a military crackdown in Egypt with |
| 1:35.3 | the Al-C-C- you know torturing and murdering people. Libya is a is a screaming flaming |
| 1:41.1 | mess. I suppose you could throw some of that back into the Obama administration. |
| 1:45.4 | But you know, step by step right across the Middle East, to George W Bush's, well, actually |
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