This is the Tom Hartman program.

And welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you.

We discovered that Donald Trump apparently knew,

maybe even since last year, that Russia was at least

alleged to be paying the Taliban bounties to kill American soldiers.

We'll get into that and what that means in just a second.

The conservative currency these days is outrage.

You know, I want to dig into that a little bit on the program today. It's just

absolutely astonishing, you know, everything that's going on. By the way, today is the

birthday of Stokely Carmichael, who later changed his name to Kwame Turay.

Remember Snick? The student unviolent coordinating? I remember Snick.

Anyhow he would have been maybe he's still alive, I'm not sure.

He was born today anyway, in 1941.

He said if a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem.

If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem.

Racism is not a question of attitude, it's a question of power.

And he goes on to say racism gets its power from capitalism,

thus if you're anti-racism, whether you know it or not,

you must be anti-capitalist power for racism, the power for sexism comes from capitalism, not an attitude.

Trump this morning tweeted a white couple pointing a gun at a black

couple at a black demonstrators in St. Louis. Over the weekend he

tweeted a bunch of guys in Florida shouting white power, a bunch of white guys shouting

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