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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Criminals Always Gonna Crime — But Now They’ve Taken Over the Oval Office

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The Trump presidency is the most corrupt in American history — and now it’s openly breaking laws, ignoring judges, and threatening us all with the power of the state…

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0:00.0

Criminals always going to crime, but now they've taken over the Oval Office.

0:07.3

Criminals Always Gonna Crime. The Trump administration is the most corrupt in arguably the entire history of the United States.

0:15.2

Never before has a president charged a million dollars ahead for people to have dinner with him.

0:19.9

Openly catered to campaign donors,

0:22.1

or offered to gut regulations in exchange for a big donation, and ran a scam crypto operation out of the

0:28.8

White House. He's also the first convicted felon and accused rapist to serve as president.

0:34.7

And now he's threatening to put people like you and me in prison or even deport us to a

0:38.9

foreign torture chamber. The highest levels of the Trump administration are embracing their boss's

0:44.4

criminality full on right now, refusing to acknowledge a legal court order to not deport people to El Salvador.

0:51.3

Judge Boasberg is scheduled a hearing for next week to determine if he's going to hold

0:55.2

any of Trump's lawyers in contempt, a process that could see them incarcerated, fined, and

1:00.6

or facing the loss of their law licenses. When podcaster John Favreau questioned Vice President

1:06.7

Vance about the matter, the former hedge fund multi-millionaire and billionaire protege

1:11.2

simply lied, saying that the most famous of the deportees is, quote, a convicted MS-13 gang

1:17.5

member with no legal right to be here. In fact, there's no meaningful evidence. He's a gang member,

1:23.0

and he did have a legal right to be here in the U.S. But lies are how the Trump regime rolls these days.

1:29.0

And when they get caught in their lies, they just tell more lies to try to cover up the first lies

1:33.0

as Judge Boasburg is discovering. While much of the media's attention is now focused on the

1:38.5

deportee Vance lied about, Kilmer Abrago Garcia, a 27-year-old Maryland resident who was in the U.S. legally, is the husband of a U.S. citizen and the father of a U.S. citizen child with autism who is desperately missing his father.

1:52.9

The bigger story is that the Trump regime is now claiming that they can arrest, detain, and deport anybody they want, anytime they want want, regardless of the law or the courts.

2:02.5

They claim that they've only arrested and deported non-citizens, but the simple reality is there's

2:06.9

no way to know that because all of those men now in that El Salvador and hellhole were denied

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