What You May Have Missed
A round-up of the past seven days on the Hartmann Report
Could Trump, or Anyone, Win Elections by Simply Promising Medicare for All?
If Trump wants Republicans to win this fall, all he has to do is endorse Medicare For All and call it a Republican policy.
How Democrats Can Turn Trump’s Corruption Into a Political Revolution
With all but 2 Republican senators voting to make Todd Blanche our Attorney General, Donald Trump just walked away from a $100 million fine for tax fraud that the IRS has been trying to collect from him for over a decade. This was the centerpiece of the “
Never Underestimate a Cornered Rat: Trump’s Election Plot Is Taking Shape
Back in the days when conservatives were so hungry for media platforms that they’d come on progressive shows, I used to regularly debate Wayne Allen Root (here and here, for example). Instead of trying to convince me, though, Root has recently taken to giving Trump ideas about things to do, like stealing the election this fal…
The Monsters Are Rebuilding a World Where Dark-Skinned Humans Don’t Count
“People are disappearing into this no man’s land. They have no connection to their new country, and they also apparently have no legal rights.” —Immigration rights attorney Alma David, quoted in The New York Times
Trump Is Making Money Laundering Great Again
Trump just took steps to make it very difficult to prosecute money laundering, a crime he and his real estate buddies may well have been committing much of their felonious lives.
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Saturday Report 8/15/26 — Trump Shocks 5,000 Sailors With Remark About Their Nine-Month Deployment…
— Trump stuns 5,000 exhausted Sailors: nine months at sea isn’t “nearly long enough.” Roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines have been stuck aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln for over 250 days leading some to suicide attempts, but Trump says they haven’t suffered nearly long enough.
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Promises …. Absolutely no. How many times have such things been promised? More than I can keep track of.
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