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The Hartmann Report

THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

News, Debate, The Hartmann Report, Economics, Thom Hartmann, Democracy, Climate Change, Congress, America

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

If conservatives aren't stupid, what are they? How could they be taken in by the insanity of Trump's lies? Democrats must restore the protective function of government and heal the nation from the damage Trump has done- but how should they respond to sedition on the right? What will become of the Republican party?

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:18.4

If conservatives aren't stupid, then what are they?

0:22.8

And I mean, seriously, this is not some kind of tongue-in-cheek thing.

0:27.8

These are the people who, when Donald Trump was running for president, was essentially

0:33.4

a failed businessman.

0:34.4

I mean, who goes broke running casinos?

0:38.1

Nobody in the history of the world to the best of my knowledge, except Donald Trump.

0:42.6

Yeah, he was a reality TV star, I guess, maybe you could say you thought he was a good

0:48.4

businessman.

0:49.4

But then he got into office and we started learning all kinds of stuff like his university,

0:53.8

Trump University.

0:54.8

I think this happened, as I recall, before the election, after the primary and before

0:59.0

the election, that he got busted for running a fake university and had defrauded tens

1:06.4

of thousands of Americans out of their money.

1:10.3

Out of those people, they're still very badly screwed by the so-called Trump University.

1:17.6

You know, not to mention all of his other businesses that have failed.

1:20.3

But you know, when he was scamming mostly low-income people, saying, well, teach you how

1:25.0

to get rich with real estate, which is an old scam, by the way.

1:29.9

When he was running the scam, people were like, oh, yeah, I wonder if he's a grifter.

1:35.5

No, Trump supporters were still with him.

1:40.1

When we learned that he had stiffed over 3,000 people who had done work for him, refused

1:45.5

to pay them.

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