TRUMP JUST BROKE THE RULES OF WAR
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 3 January 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
All bets are off. The thin veneer of civilization is coming unraveled. How long will it be before Iran retaliates?-, and after that will there be any possibility for anyone to point out the truth that Trump has deliberately created this conflict? Does the evidence of his billion-dollar loan to the Russians coming out this week have anything to do with it? Or further proof of his shakedown of the Ukraine? Or evidence of massive stock market bets tied to Trump, where his friends make bank by knowing what announcements Trump is about to make?
Who are our real allies, and who will act to stop this from becoming World War III? How did Dick Cheney's illegal war and occupation of the nation of Iraq lead to this? Thom speaks with Jamal Abdi, policy director of the National Iranian American Council, as well as with House Progressive leader Mark Pocan on this developing crisis that Trump has created by assassinating a government official of another country.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And welcome to our program. |
| 0:18.0 | Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:19.0 | There's so much going on we're going to get into today. |
| 0:22.0 | First off, Donald Trump, it looks to me like he |
| 0:25.2 | may have started World War 3 and I say that with no glee whatsoever and |
| 0:30.4 | considerable concern. |
| 0:32.5 | Fill up your gas tank. |
| 0:34.5 | This is extraordinarily dangerous. |
| 0:37.3 | Iran is the seventh largest supplier of oil in the world. |
| 0:41.3 | They have the eighth largest official army in the world. They have the eighth largest official army in the world, and then they have paramilitary |
| 0:46.6 | forces both in Iran and around Iran, in Syria and in Lebanon. |
| 0:52.3 | You add those together. It may well be that Iran has the fourth or fifth largest military |
| 0:57.1 | in the world. |
| 0:58.0 | This is a major country. |
| 1:00.4 | Iran is several times the size of Iraq geographically and I believe larger than most European countries in terms of population. |
| 1:07.0 | And Donald Trump has just gone off the rails here. |
| 1:12.0 | And A, I'm of the opinion. off the rails here. |
| 1:13.0 | And A, I'm of the opinion and you know I don't know maybe I'm wrong on this but it makes perfect |
| 1:18.8 | sense to me that Donald Trump is doing right now what he back in 2011 and 2012 was predicting that |
| 1:28.5 | Barack Obama would do. |
| 1:30.3 | On November 14th of 2011, Trump tweeted Barack Obama, keep in mind, |
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