RESOLUTELY FAILING TO PUT THE NATION'S INTERESTS FIRST

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🗓️ 19 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Trump works to make the oligarchs- and especially himself- rich. As the author of 'Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America", Sarah Kendior, joins Thom.. how far has Trump gone in ignoring the interests of the common American in favor of the very rich, or even of organized crime?

And, Lisa Graves of True North research has been diving into the records of our pro-Trump Postmaster General. Did he steal his brother's mail in order to steal some of his brother's assets? Did donating more than half a million dollars to Trump's campaign help him get the job?

Plus- Why do we keep halfway believing much of what Trump says?..

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0:00.0	This is the Tom Hartman program.
0:15.0	The newspaper, first of all, this is USA Today.
0:20.0	They're speaking of the president.
0:21.0	They said he should resign because he has resolutely failed and continues to fail
0:26.0	The most fundamental test of any president to put his nation's interests first
0:31.1	So that's USA Today calling for the president to resign.
0:35.0	This is the Philadelphia Inquirer.
0:38.0	The president should resign. He should resign because his repeated reckless
0:42.0	deceits have dishonored his presidency beyond repair.
0:47.7	Other newspapers who have said the same thing, essentially, not necessarily the literal same words, but have explicitly called for the
0:55.6	president to resign.
0:57.3	Other newspapers include the Denver Post, the Washington Times, the Orlando Sentinel, the San Antonio Express News,
1:06.7	the Anchorage Daily News, the Manchester Union leader.
1:10.6	These are just some of the dailies, right? All over the country, newspapers have called on the president to resign.
1:17.0	I'm speaking, of course, of President Clinton.
1:20.0	Seriously. All those newspapers called on President Clinton to resign in
1:27.6	editorials that they ran in their newspapers in some cases front-page
1:31.5	editorials.
1:34.0	How many newspapers have called on Donald Trump to resign?
1:38.0	Zero.
1:39.0	Zero!
1:40.0	Last night Joe Biden Zero.
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