WILL THE GRIFTER OLIGARCHY STRANGLE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 25 April 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
As Trump fires our head of vaccine development because he wouldn't get behind a Fox News hustle, are grifters exploiting our government at almost every level- including the presidency? Is a former dog breeder really the best pick to head a critical scientific effort? Meanwhile the head of the Amway scam Trump picked for education secretary is funneling billions of dollars to her buddies in private school management so they can buy private jets, just one of a parade of hustles inspired by the market-manipulator in chief; our president who is apparently willing to risk World War III to support oil futures! Will our democracy survive this?
Also, Thom welcomes back economist Richard Wolff for his analysis- are we seeing the start of a deflationary spiral that will drive down wages? Will this be an opportunity for the rich to really clean up?
Plus.. 'Blue State Bailouts'??... Seizing German PPE... phony grassroots groups... The growing oligarchy... could this recession last for decades?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:17.0 | By the way, the guy Brian Harrison that Donald Trump put in charge of developing a vaccine |
| 0:21.0 | for the United States. Not only was he a dog breeder before but he was a very specific type of |
| 0:25.7 | a dog breeder, he just did lab redoodles. Isn't that encouraging? Dr. Rick Bright |
| 0:31.6 | ousted as the director of the U.S. Health Department's Biomedical Dr. |
| 0:33.0 | The |
| 0:35.0 | Bight ousted, I was stood as the Director of the U.S. Health Department's |
| 0:34.3 | Biomedical Advanced Research and Development |
| 0:36.7 | Authority because he wouldn't hustle on behalf |
| 0:40.2 | of hydrochloroquan. |
| 0:41.6 | He wrote basically an op ed, he said specifically and |
| 0:44.4 | contrary to misguided directives I limited the broad use of chloroquan promoted by |
| 0:48.8 | the administration as a panacea but which clearly lacked scientific merit. |
| 0:53.4 | I rightly resisted efforts to provide an unproven drug on demand to the American public. |
| 1:00.6 | And a study among U.S. veterans found that not only do neither of them produce any benefit to people who are sick and are the recipients of it, |
| 1:09.0 | but not only do they not provide any benefit, but they're actually causing people to have heart |
| 1:13.5 | attacks? Alex Azar, the former Eli Lilly drug CEO or senior executive, I |
| 1:21.1 | think he was CEO, who presided over the company when it more than doubled the price of insulin. |
| 1:26.0 | He put a guy by the name of Brian Harrison in charge of the entire department, the Health and Human Services, |
| 1:34.0 | HHS controls the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control, |
| 1:37.8 | and the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA. |
| 1:41.1 | And Alex Azar has put a new guy in charge of regulating the CDC and the FDA. |
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