THE LONG CON KICKS INTO OVERDRIVE

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🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Now that Steve Bannon was arrested for mail fraud, will he join a long list of Trump's operators and supporters already behind bars? Is Trump operating his campaign and his presidency as one massive con job? This is simply the latest chapter in Republican "Give us money, we'll give you what you want" grift- and as President Obama pointed out in his convention speech- "the consequences of this.. are severe".

Rick Perlstein has written a new book- "Reaganland- America's Right Turn 1976-1980". As we look back, has any part of the conservative sales pitch not been a total con?

And veteran Democratic Party leader Suzie Turnball drops by- are many of the qualified women running for office inspired by Trump's bigotry, or by a desire for sanity?

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0:00.0	This is the Tom Hartman program.
0:15.0	Donald Trump is president because he committed crimes, criminally indicted by the U.S. House of Representatives.
0:23.0	Rick Gates, his assistant campaign manager, convicted.
0:26.0	Paul Manafort, his campaign manager convicted.
0:28.0	George Popadopoulos convicted.
0:30.0	Mike Flynn convicted.
0:31.0	Michael Cohen convicted. Roger Stone convicted.
0:34.0	I don't know if you realize this or not, but the post office has its own police department.
0:38.0	Yes, it's a crime to tamper with the federal males.
0:42.0	It's also a crime to use the mail for
0:45.4	fraudulent purposes. So if you can induce somebody to mail you a check and then
0:50.2	you scam them, you've committed a postal crime.
0:55.0	Mail fraud, and sure enough, the post offices police department
1:00.2	arrested Steve Bannon for running this giant con on Trump supporters.
1:07.6	Increasingly, I am convinced that Donald Trump, while yes, he's running for
1:11.6	re-election, you know, on the long shot chance that he can actually win.
1:14.8	And he's going to try and scam it, and he's going to try and run the same scam that George W Bush did in 2000,
1:20.8	when it was fairly obvious that Al Gore had won the election and Roger Stone
1:25.3	went down to Florida and ran this operation with guys from Tom Delays office and
1:31.2	Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts with the so-called Brooks
1:35.6	Brothers Riot to say stop counting the votes and they got Fox News to promote the
1:41.0	idea that yeah Bush has won and Al Gore is trying to steal the
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