TRUMP'S BLACKSHIRTS CRACKING DOWN IN PORTLAND
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
As Trump deploys Homeland Security police forces to Democratic-controlled cities, and even randomly arresting protesters with unmarked vans... what is this really about? Is this extra-judicial practice a test to see what he can get away with in the runup to the election? Aaron Mesh, News Editor at Willamette Week describes the brutality of these attacks on our constitutional rights. And we hear from protesters on the ground in Portland with what they're observing.
Plus - why it might not be a good idea to impeach Trump twice?.. Why are Republicans blocking laws that would make it illegal to take non-financial support from foreign governments?.. Crazy conservative conspiracies around Covid vaccines... And- why RICO isn't effective against the actual criminal conspiracies of the very rich.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you and Senator Jeff Merckley, who was on this show earlier this week condemning the secret police, the federal |
| 0:24.8 | police who are not being identified. He tweeted at Trump, get your DHS |
| 0:31.0 | lackeys and uninvited paramilitary actions out of my state. |
| 0:37.0 | Our communities are not a stage for your twisted re-election campaign. |
| 0:43.2 | Yeah, don't you think? |
| 0:44.9 | On the line with us is Aaron Mesh. |
| 0:46.6 | Aaron is the news editor at Willamette Week, |
| 0:48.8 | which is one of our local weekly newspapers |
| 0:51.2 | that just does a great job of covering local politics. |
| 0:53.4 | W-week.com is the website. |
| 0:56.2 | Aaron's Twitter handle is Aaron Mesh. |
| 0:59.4 | It is spelled just like it sounds. |
| 1:01.2 | Well, am it week is W week. |
| 1:02.8 | Aaron, welcome to the program. Give us a summary here of what's going on. |
| 1:07.0 | When did this start? How is it happening? |
| 1:09.4 | And then we can get into, you know, how the governor is responding to it and our |
| 1:12.4 | congressional delegation and whatnot. get in the you know how the governor is responding to it and our congressional |
| 1:13.0 | delegation and whatnot my understanding is this started on June 26 |
| 1:17.6 | when the president issued an executive order protecting federal |
| 1:21.8 | monuments and buildings. |
| 1:23.2 | It's the response in short, you know, as you recall, he had this |
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