TRUMP'S CRIMINAL INDIFFERENCE TO DOING HIS JOB
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Michael Lewis, author of 'The Fifth Risk' joins Thom- What is up with Donald Trump's civil service? With political appointees with questionable experience at the helm of the Department of Energy, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Commerce, how are they taking care of business with so many mid-level positions simply left vacant? Why does Trump and the public at large have so little interest in understanding what our federal government does?
Trump and his cronies continue to enrich themselves at the expense of the American people- Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos (who is personally heavily invested in student debt) is trying to move student debt into a private corporate so any future president could never cancel it. What other hustles, crimes, and foolishness of this corrupt head of state are worthy of impeachment?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And welcome back. |
| 0:17.0 | Tom Hartman here with you and on the line with us is Michael Lewis. |
| 0:20.0 | He is the best-selling author of numerous books including the big short money |
| 0:23.8 | ball the blindside and his latest the fifth risk he's also a columnist for |
| 0:28.7 | Bloomberg view and contributing writer to audible his website Michael Lewis writes w r i t e s dot com and |
| 0:36.2 | Michael welcome to the program |
| 0:38.5 | well thanks for having you down i think this book of yours the fifth risk is absolutely fantastic and just one |
| 0:44.4 | little |
| 0:45.1 | anecdote i mean you tell a story in the book about how the department of energy |
| 0:49.2 | had a program to basically encourage clean energy and they funded Tesla or they provided the initial |
| 0:56.7 | financing for Tesla to get up and running and along with dozens of other utility scale |
| 1:01.9 | projects around the country and right now they're in |
| 1:06.2 | absolute paralysis because nobody there knows how to run anything it's it's this |
| 1:11.1 | death of government by incompetence and greed that is |
| 1:14.4 | represented by the Trump administration can you give us the big picture here you |
| 1:18.2 | know what is the overall story in your mind on this, it's how it begins. |
| 1:23.0 | Trump didn't think he was going to win. |
| 1:24.8 | That's really clear. |
| 1:25.8 | He didn't prepare to win. |
| 1:27.6 | He had, by law, the requirement to build a transition team. |
| 1:31.7 | And he had hundreds of people that Chris Christie had assembled |
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