Trump Town Hall: Is CNN Normalizing Fascism Next Week?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
It’s time to call a fascist a fascist, speaking of CNN’s upcoming attempt to rehabilitate Trump with a sanitized “Town Hall” and a mostly MAGA audience. The Tucker Carlson text message: Inside the mind of a sociopath? Investigative journalist Greg Palast explains Powell's bag of leeches - hiking interest rates, the Medieval cure for inflation. Also, what Putin is up to by claiming an attempted drone attack. Veteran War Correspondent Phil Ittner reports from Kyiv, Ukraine.
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| 0:47.3 | May the fourth be with you. |
| 0:49.8 | Or as Joyce said, it's the day before Cinco Demile, right? |
| 0:52.9 | Indeed. |
| 0:55.5 | So a lot going on in the world today and awful lot going on in the world today. |
| 1:01.4 | Breaking news over on CNN, the headline breaking news on verdict and proud boy's |
| 1:07.3 | seditious conspiracy trial over on MSNBC breaking news on verdict and proud boy's seditious |
| 1:13.2 | conspiracy trial over on Fox so-called news US Navy hires drag queen. |
| 1:19.2 | No, seriously, the four of the five proud boys, including Eriki Tario, the former leader of the |
| 1:29.9 | group, have been convicted of seditious conspiracy. This is 20 years in prison. |
| 1:34.7 | The one guy who wasn't yet convicted has been convicted of other things and we'll see. |
| 1:40.1 | I mean, they went back, the jury has gone back to deliberate on the remaining 11 counts, |
| 1:45.3 | but they found these four guys guilty of 31 of 46 counts. |
| 1:50.4 | They found them not guilty of four counts. |
| 1:53.1 | And this is a 15 week trial that was about 30 hours of jury negotiation. |
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