The Dark and Destructive Vision of Putin's GOP
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Author and reporter Heidi Siegmund Cuda has the dirt that ties Mike Johnson to President Putin. Does Mr Johnson want to follow Russia's example and become an authoritarian pseudo-theocracy?
Also, radio host Dean Obeidallah joins Thom- Should Republicans start taking campaign contributions in rubles?
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, let's check in with Betty Dangerous. |
| 0:20.0 | Heidi Seggman Kuda is the author and an award-winning investigative reporter, co-host of the |
| 0:25.7 | radicalized Truth Survives Podcast. Her sub-stack is Betty Dangerous.com, B-E-T-T-T-E-D-D-D-D-D-D-I-U-D-I-U-D-I-U-D-A. |
| 0:38.6 | Heidi, welcome back to the program. |
| 0:39.9 | You've been writing about Mike Johnson and his ties to Russia. |
| 0:43.6 | Tell me about that. |
| 0:44.4 | As the second anniversary, the large scale invasion of Russia's war of aggression was |
| 0:49.7 | approaching, I was thinking that the most important thing that we can do as investigative |
| 0:55.2 | reporters is focus our energy on Mike Johnson because as you know Ukrainian |
| 1:00.4 | soldiers are counting their bullets on the battlefield right now. |
| 1:04.3 | Well, in 2018, Mike Johnson was taking money from Russian oligarchs. |
| 1:09.3 | And how do we know that? |
| 1:10.5 | Because there were enough investigative reporters still around then to actually |
| 1:14.8 | report that there was a company called American Ethane L-O-L-L-O-L-L-L-L-O-L, it's actually funded the main |
| 1:21.0 | shareholders where three Russian oligarchs and why does it matter? |
| 1:25.0 | Because one of them owns a munitions factory in Russia which is producing the ammunition |
| 1:30.8 | that is currently being used to commit genocide in Ukraine. |
| 1:34.4 | So it's very important that nobody confuses who Mike Johnson really is. |
| 1:39.6 | This is a mild-mannered domestic terrorist who has spent a career trying to take away our rights, my |
| 1:46.8 | rights, my children's rights, and now he is actually doing photo ops in Maralago, |
| 1:53.4 | well, the body count around this man is really piling up. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Thom Hartmann, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Thom Hartmann and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

