TRUMP IS ONLY A SYMPTOM OF THE SICKNESS WE MUST CURE
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump never would have been president if the Supreme Court had not effectively made political bribery illegal. Can we get the money out of politics or are we likely to end up with an authoritarian takeover? Is it time to stop thinking about Trump but instead of the future fascist movement he has given voice and life to?
Plus, investigative journalist Greg Palast reports from on the ground in Georgia.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:18.0 | And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers and |
| 0:23.2 | peace, freedom and the American way Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:27.0 | There's a bunch of stuff that I want to get into today. |
| 0:30.1 | Number one, how the Supreme Court set up the authoritarian takeover of America. |
| 0:34.5 | This has to do with Donald Trump's phone call. |
| 0:36.4 | I'll get to that in just a second. |
| 0:38.2 | And how the biggest problem we have really isn't Donald Trump himself. |
| 0:43.5 | Yet that's like the giant moon face in front of us that kind of obscures our view of everything |
| 0:49.3 | all around it. |
| 0:50.3 | But it's really the fascist movement that he has launched. |
| 0:54.9 | To jump right to the end and give you the whole thing in advance. |
| 0:58.6 | I'm arguing here that Donald Trump wouldn't even be an office. |
| 1:06.7 | Like the mercers wouldn't have been able to funnel all this dark money into Cambridge |
| 1:11.4 | Analytica and Facebook and all these other Donald Trump wouldn't even be an office. |
| 1:18.9 | And the Supreme Court, not back in 1976 and 1978, said it's okay if rich people own |
| 1:27.4 | politicians, bribery is now legal in the United States. |
| 1:32.1 | And then of course they doubled down on it in 2010 and since United that it would not |
| 1:37.2 | even be possible. |
| 1:38.2 | So here we are. |
| 1:39.6 | What do we do about this? |
| 1:43.7 | Obviously, my solution and I've talked about this a number of times is we need to figure |
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