We do have a mental illness problem & it's in the White House. Thom analyses gun violence, historical racism and the rise of fascism in the United States.
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Trump, the NRA, and the Republican Party keep talking about mental illness as the core of our problem right now in America. Our president is mentally ill, and until we recognize that, acknowledge that, and begin a national conversation about it there can be no healing or reconciliation. - For the book club, Thom Hartmann reads from his newest publication, 'The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment' - Talk Media News correspondent Bob Ney reports on the Republican gun defense of indicting video games as the culprit behind mass shootings.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:17.0 | Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom, and the American |
| 0:25.5 | way. |
| 0:26.5 | Welcome to our program. Tom Hartman here with you. We're live in Portland. It's going to turn |
| 0:30.9 | out to be a beautiful day here. I hope it's nice where you are. |
| 0:34.6 | Donald Trump has landed in Dayton, Ohio. |
| 0:38.0 | Then he's going on to El Paso, Texas. |
| 0:40.2 | They've got the baby Trump, you know, Trump in a diaper with little tiny hands in a |
| 0:43.9 | cell phone, the giant blimp, just like 50 feet tall. They've got that all inflated |
| 0:49.7 | and ready for Trump. He says he's going to be meeting with first responders, in other words cops. |
| 0:56.8 | I'm wondering if even the police are still on his side. |
| 1:01.6 | Everything that's going on here is just extraordinary and I think that we really need to |
| 1:06.1 | consider what's actually going on. |
| 1:10.3 | Donald Trump, the NRA, and the Republican Party, they all keep talking about mental illness as the core of our problem right now in America. |
| 1:18.0 | And ironically, we do have a major mental health problem in our country which is affecting our politics. |
| 1:29.2 | And that problem is in the White House. Our president is mentally ill. This needs to be said out loud. It needs |
| 1:42.2 | to be said in the news media. It needs to be said by our politicians. |
| 1:49.0 | He is a pathological liar. The Washington Post has documented over 16,000 lies since he became president. |
| 1:55.0 | Now pathological means ill, right, a pathology is an illness. |
| 2:01.0 | A pathological liar is one who has a mental illness that causes |
| 2:05.8 | them to continuously lie. That is the guy in the White House, Donald Trump. That is a mental illness being a pathological liar. |
| 2:17.0 | And by the way, not just like random lies, like you know pain to cover up his affairs when he's sleeping with a |
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