Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 11/30/18 - Thom's triple threat: Sherrod Brown, Bernie, and Merkley! And, as Mueller catches the president in significant lies about Russia, seizes Trump's tax documents, and works Manafort and Cohen, Thom looks at the accumulated evidence of Russian business interests stretching back to at least 1988, not to mention the Trump Crime Family's various non-Russian cons, scams, and mafia ties. Brilliant callers add fuel to the fire. And, Bernie Sanders and Jeff Merkley on their Senate and House bills to stop the pharma cartels ripping off Medicare.
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 30 November 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Mueller catches Trump in lies about his Russian ties, just the latest in a series of Republican presidents passing off significant lies on the American public. ------ Recently re-elected progressive Senator from Ohio, Sherrod Brown has a plan to keep American manufacturing here despite the Republican tax cut incentivizing moving factories out of the U.S.. ------ Senator Bernie Sanders has a plan to stop the Pharma Cartel from overcharging Medicare for drugs. And, he's outraged about Trump's support for murderous Saudi Arabia, and Trump's other con jobs. Callers express support for the Progressive platform of Bernie, Sherrod Brown, and Merkeley, as well as there disgust with the lying grifter-in-chief's money-making schemes. ------ As Trump's accountant is raided by the FBI, Thom compares Trump's high crimes to Nixon's. How did we get here?- And should we impeach? Callers respond. ------ Thom reads from 'Proof of Collusion' by Seth Abramson, on Trump's early Russian connections, such as possibly sharing a model girlfriend with an up & coming Vladimir Putin. ------ Progressive Senator Jeff Merkley makes the case for his and Bernie's bills to negotiate fair drug prices for Medicare. ------ Thom deftly takes insightful listener calls on subjects raised during the program.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth, and justice, |
| 0:21.0 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way, Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:25.0 | And we have now, as a result of Michael Cohen pleading guilty to lying to the Senate, |
| 0:32.4 | we have now learned that Donald Trump's price, his price to sell |
| 0:37.2 | out his country, apparently is a hotel. Give me a hotel, I'll commit treason. I'll sell out my country. |
| 0:45.0 | He lied to us, according to Michael Cohen's guilty plea, |
| 0:50.0 | Donald Trump lied to us throughout the campaign. |
| 0:54.0 | Remember he went on TV? |
| 0:55.0 | He said, I got nothing, I got nothing to do with Russia. |
| 0:57.0 | You got no money invested in Russia, you know. |
| 0:59.0 | Maybe those are very carefully crafted words. |
| 1:02.0 | Maybe he didn't have money invested in |
| 1:04.0 | Russia. Because after all he wouldn't build the hotel. A Russian oligarch would |
| 1:09.3 | build a hotel. They put Trump's name on it and they would pay Trump millions of dollars in |
| 1:15.1 | royalties and fees. That's how it works. Trump doesn't actually build these |
| 1:18.8 | properties around the world. He gets somebody else to build them. He puts his name on them and then they pay him for the |
| 1:23.8 | naming rights. And I think his brand is kind of in the crapper right now, but he's, I mean, you know, |
| 1:29.8 | he's been doing this for some time. So I suppose he could say, yeah, I didn't do that. But he was |
| 1:37.8 | trying to do that deal. At the same time that he was protesting that he wasn't doing anything |
| 1:45.1 | You know and is this the one hand washes another has has Mueller finally proven collusion |
| 1:52.4 | Or shall we say conspiracy to defraud the United States of |
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