Hartmann Report

If Trump wants veterans in Congress killed for affirming U.S. law, doesn't that make him the very danger the Founders warned would destroy the republic, the kind impeachment was designed for? Trump just called for the execution of American veterans — all of them also elected members of Congress — because they reminded our active duty soldiers that it's a violation of both American and international law to commit war crimes. If that's not impeachable, what is?

But the roar was never for her, it was for Trump.. And when he turned it against her, she learned the eternal rule: demagogue's followers don't choose enemies, their leader does... Marjorie Taylor Greene has been dissed and ridiculed by the Left for years. Progressives mocked her lies, shredded her conspiracies, exposed her QAnon nonsense, and denounced her cruelty. And through it all she never once feared for her life. She fundraised. She smirked. She gave speeches, traveled the country, and strutted through Congress like she owned the place. But the second she angered the Republican base, barely forty-eight hours after she resisted Donald Trump's demands and broke from the MAGA line, she suddenly feared for her life and needed private security.

Neuroscience gives us one more warning. Losing power can feel like withdrawal. We're seeing this now as Donald Trump thrashes about, losing his grip on his party and his followers... In a comment to my recent article here about how much Trump-like corruption the American people will tolerate, Sabrina Haake (who writes the "Haake Take") wrote: "I really want to see a deep dive on how power affects the brain. A strong addiction, as you say. but it deserves a special study in the age of Trump, given its complete takeover…" It's a great question, and the revelations of the Epstein connection to Trump and numerous — perhaps hundreds — of rich and powerful men and their abuse of powerless children again highlights how this addiction warps behavior, destroys lives, and kneecaps democracies.

How a single predator exposed a centuries-old system built to shield wealthy white men from accountability and forced the country to confront a truth its institutions have long concealed... The Jeffrey Epstein scandal stripped away the polite fiction that wealthy white men in America are held to the same standards as everyone else. Epstein wasn't an exception. He was the rule, laid bare.

He's tested every limit of decency and democracy, and every time he does the GOP bends a little lower. At this point, the question isn't just about Trump's crimes; it's about their complicity… Is Marjorie Taylor Greene leading the way, or the exception that proves the rule? By the shocking light of today's glaring headlines, it's time to ask a larger question that no one in the media appears to be willing to say out loud: at what point does the accumulation of misconduct by Donald J. Trump become so brazen, so corrosive, so frankly immoral and even criminal, that Republican elected officials and voters finally say, "Enough is enough?

I was twenty-two in 1973 and had just started an herbal tea company when I became entranced by the business self-help movement. Louise and I listened to Earl Nightingale tapes in the car when we’d take weekend two-hour drives up to my grandparents’ house in Newaygo, Michigan. I read books by Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich) and Claude Bristol (The Magic of Believing) so many times I had entire sections memorized. I got a “pillow speaker” so I could go to sleep at night listening to their tapes. W. Clement Stone, the insurance multimillionaire, had created a foundation that distributed posters and stickers with his slogans—“Do It Now!” and “Thinking will not overcome fear but action will!”—on them, and they decorated our apartment. I took the Dale Carnegie Course on public speaking, probably the best decision (outside of marrying Louise) of my life; it was transformational. That was an era when many young people in business were looking for role models and mentors.

The Best of the Rest of the News. — "Good for me, but not for thee." — Trump's new big lie: "There is no affordability" problem. — Against the orders of a federal judge, Trump/Bondi/Noem/Homan sent hundreds of immigrants to a hellhole torture center in El Salvador. — So much for equal justice under law, the slogan carved over the entrance to the Supreme Court. — Throwing almost 200,000 families out of their homes? Just another day in Trump's America. — Tax breaks for billionaires are more important to Republicans than tsunami warnings for the little people. — The spike in bowel cancer diagnoses among younger people, particularly women, appears to be linked to eating ultra-processed foods (UPFs). — Crazy Alert! Trump having sex with "Bubba"?!?

From the halls of Mar-a-Lago to the ruins of Ukrainian hospitals, the toxic bond between Trump, Putin, and Epstein may have reshaped the world and cost the lives of countless children… "Russia unleashed a massive combined attack on Kyiv" last night, The Guardian reports. "Five people were hospitalised, including one man in critical condition and a pregnant woman, after a series of powerful explosions sounded in the city and air defenses were activated. … "Pictures posted on social media showed different sites in flames and residents gathering in rubble-strewn streets outside apartment buildings." The child victims of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes are apparently not the only ones who've paid the price for Donald Trump's long relationship with that notorious pedophile.

This Epstein Affair has shown a pattern where men of wealth and power created a zone of impunity that protected them for decades while destroying vulnerable people like Virginia Guiffrey… The New York Times reported that Donald Trump personally called Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and then had Bondi, Blanche, and Patel take her into the top-secret no-recording-devices-allowed Situation Room to urge her to drop her support for releasing the Epstein files. He apparently also tried to reach Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) for the same reason. Yesterday’s newly surfaced details about Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump again reveal something far larger than the tawdry specifics of their relationship, as grotesque as those are. They point to a structural crisis at the heart of American democracy.

Trump's white supremacist loyalists are rewriting history, erasing Black heroes, and purging diversity, and the politicians who stay silent are complicit in that treason… The American media refuses to call them out, so I guess the job falls to me: you can cut the racism with a knife, it's so thick. With the Trump administration, the Confederacy is actively rising again, using the Lost Cause mythology/lie as its basis. Trump has now, apparently just in time for Veterans Day this week, erased tributes to Black U.S. soldiers who died fighting fascism — removing displays and plaques honoring African American liberators in Europe and removing similar memorial content at home — not merely to rewrite history but to say that only white men's stories matter.