What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
Are Trump’s Purges and Calls for a Larger Military Budget the Setup for a Coup?
On Easter Sunday, Donald Trump posted to his failing, Nazi-infested social media site a rant that has shocked the world, threatening multiple war crimes with a level of obscenity that no Republican would have tolerated from President Obama or any other Democrat:
Are Trump’s Purges and Calls for a Larger Military Budget the Setup for a Coup?
On Easter Sunday, Donald Trump posted to his failing, Nazi-infested social media site a rant that has shocked the world, threatening multiple war crimes with a level of obscenity that no Republican would have tolerated from President Obama or any other Democrat:
Trump Deploys Reality Show Tricks to Dominate and Destabilize America and the World
Well, 8 PM ET came and went, to paraphrase TS Eliot, “Not with a bang but a whimper.” In the latest episode of Trump’s reality show presidency, he decided he’ll give Iran “another two weeks” (we’ll get to that in a minute) to open the Strait of Hormuz because something something
Is the Department of Thought Crimes Closing In On You?
Trump’s thought police may already have your name in their database, which is growing — according to Kash Patel — at the rate of around 300% right now. They’re not looking for people who’ve committed crimes, but, rather, for people who they think may commit crimes in the future. Thought and opinion crimes
“What I’m Going To Do To You Is Going to be Fucking Disgusting…”
Donald Trump used to have Michael Cohen to make his threats for him (after Roy Cohn died and could no longer serve Trump and the New York Mafia families). When journalist Tim Mak, then working for the Daily Beast, was producing an article about Trump’s first wife, Ivana, saying he “raped” her when
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— Is Trump privatizing Medicare? George W. Bush and his Republicans in Congress (with help from a few on-the-take Democrats) rolled out a privatized alternative to Medicare in 2005; it’s called Medicare Advantage. Now Trump and Dr. Oz appear prepared to begin the process or replacing real Medicare with the private, for-profit system. Their strategy is t…
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