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The Hartmann Report

WEAPONIZING A VIRUS

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

The Hartmann Report, Climate Change, Democracy, News, America, Debate, Congress, Economics, Thom Hartmann

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Trump’s rally in Tulsa this weekend and his moving the Republican convention to Florida both demonstrate that he is more than willing to take actions that will kill Americans in order to get his ego stroked and increase his chances of reelection.

Weaponizing a virus for political purposes is a crime against humanity, and it is being committed right in front of our own eyes against our friends and neighbors, coworkers and family members.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:15.0

Welcome back.

0:17.0

So I have a question for you.

0:18.0

How should the crime of weaponizing a virus for political purposes be punished.

0:27.0

How do we react to this?

0:30.0

I mean, Trump's rally in Tulsa this weekend is moving the

0:32.9

RNC down to Florida specifically so that they can pack an audience

0:37.4

filled with people yelling screaming no masks you know jammed in

0:41.6

what these things prove these two events that Trump is

0:46.4

you know these two decisions that he has made in the past week is that he's

0:51.0

willing to allow Americans to die in fact he's willing to allow Americans to die.

0:53.6

In fact, he's willing to take proactive actions

0:58.4

that will cause Americans to die.

1:02.0

In order to get his ego stroked and increase his chances of getting reelected.

1:07.0

Or at least he thinks that it's going to help his chances of getting reelected.

1:12.0

Now, you know, there's this new book out by Trump's niece and pieces of this are starting

1:16.8

to leak out right now suggesting that his nephew, his brother's child had cerebral palsy, very expensive medical

1:27.6

treatments necessary for cerebral palsy. When Donald was negotiating with

1:32.2

his brother and sister over slicing up his father's estate,

1:37.0

he cut off the medical payments to his nephew with cerebral palsy in order to force that family to give Donald a larger

1:46.2

chunk of daddy's inheritance at least according to Donald's niece right now.

1:54.5

So you've got two data points here.

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