Hartmann Report

Accountability for criminal Republican presidents can't happen soon enough. The Biden administration yesterday laid it right out in the open. When Trump 2016 campaign Chairman Paul Manafort was passing secret polling information about swing states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania to Konstantin Kilimnik, as is laid out in the Mueller Report, it was part of a very specific and successful effort on the part of Russian Intelligence to help put Trump in office.

Crimes, from treason to murder, were committed that day, and crime-fighters need to locate and prosecute the traitorous, treasonous criminals America needs and deserves to find out what happened on and in the time leading up to the January 6th attempt to overthrow our country.

This bizarre conspiracy theory now threatens democracy itself - can it be stopped? News that the Johnson & Jackson vaccine can cause blood clots in about one in 1 million women under 50 has exploded across the social media world. Republicans, along with countries that hate America, are smiling. A fellow who runs a couple of communities on a popular social media site called into my program yesterday saying that the vaccine news had caused an "absolute explosion" of vaccine denialism. People who'd been on the fence are now outright opposed to getting the jab. And Trump and the GOP are making hay with the announcement.

It must not be allowed, like the Confederacy was, to live on with its own "lost cause" BS mythology President Joe Biden has largely given up on trying to negotiate anything with Republicans. There's a good reason for this: the GOP is no longer a legitimate political party.

Republicans and "white nationalists" are playing with fire in their efforts to end democracy. It’s no coincidence that Trump supporters, including those who attacked our republic on January 6 at the US capital, love to wave and display the Confederate flag. Somehow, they think, their whiteness will protect them from the consequences of ending democracy in America. They’re wrong.

The GOP and Trumpsters are willing to sicken more Americans to regain political power. Well, it’s all out in the open now. Donald Trump and his homicidal cronies actively worked to damage America’s public health infrastructure, so 500,000 Americans ended up dying unnecessarily. All to push America deeper into authoritarianism.

Fear of the “Great Replacement“ is now the major driving force in the GOP. So, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who does not much participate in the legislative process other than occasionally trying to stop it, and has lost all her committee assignments, raised over 3 million bucks in the last quarter. A really good first-quarter haul for a freshman member of Congress who’s actually getting things done would be $250,000 to a half million dollars. Greene blew the doors out. But why?

Raise their corporate income tax rate! Most Americans, when they hear that President Joe Biden wants to raise the corporate income tax to 28% to pay for his infrastructure plan, think that means that every business in America is suddenly going to be hit with some kind of surcharge. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

The 14th Amendment gives us tools that haven’t been used in over a century. Four days after President Donald Trump and several members of Congress incited an angry mob to attack the Capitol and overturn an election he’d lost by over 7 million votes, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sent a note to her Democratic colleagues. She called for Vice President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment, to begin a new impeachment process, and wrapped the memo up by saying “Your views on the 25th Amendment, 14th Amendment Section 3, and impeachment are valued as we continue.”

Republicans & Trump have thrown Evangelical Christianity into a full-blown crisis. Republican politicians are doubling down on exploiting religious people, and its now killing churches in a way not seen in living memory.