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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Will Trump's Corruption Be the Fatal Flaw That Even MAGA Can’t Defend?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Congress, Economics, Climate Change, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, America, Thom Hartmann, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Every bribe has a receipt. Every payoff leaves a trail. Is the cult finally cracking?

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Will Trump's corruption be the fatal flaw that even MAGA can't defend?

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Want to take down Trump?

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Demonstrate how corrupt he and his oligarch buddies are.

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I've spent a good chunk of my adult life doing international relief work for a nonprofit based out of Europe,

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from the mass slaughter in Darfur to the famine following the Civil War in Uganda

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to deeply impoverished rural Russia and Southeast Asia to hunt clubs in Colombia where young men

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who shoot feral children for sport. I've seen horrors few can even imagine, much less would

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want to live through. The one consistent and defining characteristic of the countries

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where I've lived and worked is the corruption. I had a meeting with a Haitian minister

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de la Saint-Polique de la Population, the equivalent of our HHS secretary, about our organization

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building a facility there for orphaned kids. His first request within 10 minutes of our meeting was for a $15,000 cash bribe, which I passed on, by the way.

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