Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 11/02/2018 - As the election inches forward, Thom exposes Trump's lies on asylum seekers, Greg Palast shares insights for voters, and intense ads from the Immigrant Film Company bring an emotional impact.
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 2 November 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Thom exposes Trump's lies about the asylum seekers and shares the intense new videos from Immigrant Film Company. Greg Palast joins the conversation and answers listener phone calls about voting as Election Day inches closer. Chris Massicotte of Victory Fund discusses election activism for the LGBTQ community and how to defend freedoms for all. Thom reads from An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics by Greg Sargent.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:17.0 | And creings, my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:21.5 | believers in peace, freedom freedom and the American way |
| 0:24.0 | Tom Hartman here with you. I want to start with Donald Trump's hate and lies. |
| 0:29.6 | There's just this stuff that's just pouring out of him. |
| 0:33.1 | He gave his speech that clearly was written by Stephen Miller. |
| 0:35.8 | It's so full of white supremacist, BS, and lies. |
| 0:39.7 | He was talking about people who are coming into our country seeking asylum and saying |
| 0:45.5 | essentially that they come in they say that they'll show up for their asylum |
| 0:49.4 | hearing and then they vanish here's exactly what he said. |
| 0:52.6 | This is by the way from the New York Times, |
| 0:54.6 | they fact checked him on this. |
| 0:56.5 | He said, we're not letting them into our country |
| 0:58.1 | and then they never show up. |
| 0:59.8 | Almost it's like a level of 3%. |
| 1:01.5 | They never show up for the trial. So by the time the trial comes |
| 1:03.8 | they're gone nobody knows where they are. This is what Trump said. This is what the New York |
| 1:07.6 | Times says. Of the asylum seekers who participated in a pilot program tested as an |
| 1:12.3 | alternative to detention. In other words, they |
| 1:15.1 | were released. 99% attended immigration and custom enforcement check-ins and |
| 1:20.2 | appointments and 100% turned up for court hearings. This was a 100% lie from Donald Trump. |
| 1:27.0 | Meanwhile, there's another I'm going to share with you in just a minute, but I want to play |
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