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The Hartmann Report

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The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Why does Jim Jordon want to defund the police when they investigate Trump? Will Trump ever face the music, or is he above the law? And what's corrupt about Supreme Court Justices accepting lavish gifts, trips, and party invitations from the super-rich?


Plus - Thom reads from the book "Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us", by Brian Klaas .

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0:46.8

House Republican threatens to defund the police if they keep investigating Donald Trump, yep,

0:52.0

sure enough, Jimnasium Jordan was being interviewed on Foxo Called News by Maria Barteromo,

1:01.4

and he said, we're going to have to take a look at the appropriations process and limit funds

1:06.5

to some of these agencies, these agencies that are investigating Donald Trump, right?

1:11.8

And she says, so the DOJ and the FBI and Jordan says, yeah, defund the police.

1:18.9

It's amazing and now Jim Jordan, of course, is also demanding that Alvin Bragg send him copies

1:24.7

of all the information he has about the crimes that Donald Trump committed and how he intends

1:30.5

to prosecute him and everything else. So, you know, Jordan and Green have been talking to Donald

1:35.6

Trump apparently on the phone and this is just brazen, right, interfering with the prosecution.

1:41.6

This is Banana Republic, Banana Republican stuff.

1:45.1

It can't happen here. Rebecca Jones, the whistleblower down in Florida,

1:49.2

who pointed out that Ron DeSantis, back during the pandemic in 2020, was lying about the number

1:54.8

of deaths in that state. In official state statistics, her 13-year-old son was just arrested and

2:01.2

taken away from his parents for posting a meme. You'll recall Rebecca Jones, her Twitter handle,

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