This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth, and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

Couple days ago, Louise and I were talking about Donald Trump and I said,

you know, it reminds me of something from when I was a kid, some movie that I saw and Louise was like,

the music man and I was like, oh yeah the music man. It was like 62. I was literally

11 years old. What was it, Robert Preston? No. Anyhow, I don't remember the stars, I'm sorry,

I'm lousy at that.

So we pulled it up, we found it on Amazon.

You know, I thought it be on Netflix, it wasn't.

And we watched the first half of it. I know the second half he

turns out to be a lovable con man, but he's a con man, you know, and he's proud to be a

con man. And yesterday what the New York Times pointed out to all of us is that so is Donald Trump.

Now how does he pull this off? I think Adam Smith in his book Theory of Moral Sentiments, this is 1759.

This is a book that was read by the founders and the framers and actually had a big influence

on the United States.

Thomas Payne was a huge fan of Adam Smith.

And in the theory of moral sentiments,

Adam Smith said, and I quote,

this disposition to admire and mean conditions is the

great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

What the New York Times has laid out is that Donald Trump is a con man.

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