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The Hartmann Report

THE DEMOCRATS STRIKE BACK

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Though the Democrats have had a challenge creating effective messaging. they are making more and more gains as the Biden inauguration approaches.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:16.6

So somebody called a couple days ago and said, why aren't the Democrats investigating

0:20.1

the Trump crime family?

0:22.1

And I said, I think they are.

0:23.8

It's just like it's getting no press at all because it's, you know, it's Congress

0:29.1

and it's not flashy and the Democrats haven't figured out how to do political theater,

0:33.7

the way that New Congress used to do and so we just don't know about it.

0:37.5

Well, here it is.

0:39.4

This is from the Financial Times, Mark Van Deville in New York, the headline, Democrats

0:44.2

probe Kushner's billion dollar rescue deal for family-owned skyscraper.

0:49.1

This is the Financial Times.

0:50.6

This is not some left-wing rag, right?

0:53.0

This is the leading solid, you know, way ahead of the Wall Street Journal, the leading

0:58.8

financial publication in the world, the Financial Times.

1:02.1

And I will quote from this article briefly here, hopefully within the realm of fair use.

1:07.8

Democrats in the U.S. Congress have launched an investigation into whether Jared Kushner's

1:11.6

desire to secure a billion dollar rescue for a skyscraper owned by his family played

1:18.5

a role in Donald Trump's decision to support a Saudi-led blockade of Qatar.

1:25.0

Now I have been talking about this since it happened.

1:27.6

Remember when the Saudis and the UAE cut off shipments of food and fuel into Qatar?

1:33.8

And I was saying they're doing this with the open approval of the Trump administration

1:38.8

because one of our largest military bases in the world, right?

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