REPUBLICANS EMBRACE THE GRIFT
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 1 April 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Nobody ever accused the reps of the G.O.P. of not knowing how to make a buck! From the mysterious 2 billion dollars Kushner received the day after Trump left office, to Steve Bannon selling water filters off the result of Republicans deregulating the railroads- when will the big and the small time corruption become apparent to Republican voters?
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| 0:47.8 | The grift is at the core of the Republican Party's existence. |
| 0:52.4 | Nobody ever accused Republicans of not knowing how to make a buck |
| 0:55.6 | or be asking somebody into voting for them. |
| 0:58.1 | I mean, you know, lying to people for economic or political gain is literally the definition of a |
| 1:02.9 | grift. But whenever there's another mass school shooting or another mass shooting Republicans |
| 1:08.0 | send out fundraising letters going, oh, they're trying to take away your guns. |
| 1:13.2 | Right, followed by another mass slaughter. |
| 1:16.4 | But it goes beyond just things like that. |
| 1:18.7 | I mean, Jared Kushner was under water because he had bought 6665th Avenue for over a billion dollars |
| 1:24.0 | and it wasn't even worth a few, you know, 800, 900 million. He needed money. |
| 1:28.6 | The mortgage was coming due and so he got his buddies in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates |
| 1:33.0 | to blockade Qatar until Qatar laundered a billion dollars through a Canadian investment firm |
| 1:38.9 | into Jared's pockets. I mean, it's a grift. |
| 1:42.8 | Just this week after Trump deregulated toxic trains leading to horrible crash, |
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