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This is the Tom Hartman program.

And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace,

freedom and the American way Tom Hartman here with you. What an extraordinary time in the life of our

nation. You know, you had Rand Paul coming out and saying, oh, you know those documents,

they were planted there by the FBI, and then you got the FBI picture coming out. And what does Trump

say? Well, I'm not a slob. I didn't spread those all over the floor. I keep them in boxes.

And then his lawyer says, oh yeah, I've been in his office. He brings guests in there.

Like, it's like, you know, give the prosecutors everything they need, right?

It's just absolutely amazing. Anyhow, I want to tell you the real story of Mikhail Gorbachev.

There's a chapter about it in my new book, The Hidden History of Neoliberalism.

It'll be out in a week or so. Gorbachev just passed away. It's an amazing story of what he tried.

He literally was trying to turn Russia into Sweden. He wanted to make it a progressive,

extraordinarily progressive, new nation, a new contributor to the world. And who sold him out,

George H. W. Bush, and basically engineered a whole program to say, no, you can't get IMF loans

unless you adopt Neoliberalism, which they did. And that brought us Putin and everything else.

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