Over the years, it's been well-documented that the Trump Crime Family has run a whole variety of frauds and grifts. The New York Times reported how Trump and his sister ripped off the IRS with a massive tax fraud to lay their hands on their daddy's estate. There are numerous stories in the media about the Trump children lying to investors to sell condos in New York, and Kushner's sister selling Green Cards to Chinese people who invest in Trump properties.

And now we have Jared Kushner running the White House' operation to get tests, personal protective equipment, and vaccines. That task force, too, was filled with hustlers and grifters from banks and hedge funds, and therefore utterly failed. The grift has now expanded in a dangerous and potentially deadly way with the "anti-lock down" movement being funded by authoritarian right wing billionaires like Betsy DeVos. Running a grift to make money or even to acquire political power is nothing new, but running a grift where you empower and turn loose on America a group of well armed wannabe Nazis carries the real threat of creating deep and lasting damage to our society and our form of government.

Many of these people are calling for their "boogaloo" - a new, race based Civil War. We saw this movie back in the 1860s, and it's not one we want to repeat. Trumps "very fine people" need to be marginalized, not used to promote his latest grift. They need to be pitied, condemned, and socially ostracized for the traitors and pathetic America haters that they are. Some suggest all this will end with the election in November; but more likely Trump has done the same kind of damage to America that the original America First movement in the 1930s did when it promoted fascism and racism across this country and further empowered the Klan.

It's going to take years, and perhaps even decades, for America to recover from the damage of these grifters, and their fellow traveler billionaires and neo-Nazis.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "One of Trump's personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus" by Kaitlan Collins and Peter Morris.

Article: "AP Exclusive: US shelves detailed guide to reopening country" by Jason Dearen and Mike Stobbe.

Article: "'Never see the light of day': Trump blocks CDC from releasing guidelines on safely re-opening public spaces like restaurants and schools" by David Badash.

Article: "Top Republican urges McConnell and Pelosi to accept rapid virus tests for Congress" by Andrew Desiderio.

Article: "Retiring as a Judge, Trump's Sister Ends Court Inquiry Into Her Role in Tax Dodges" by Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig.

Article: "Kushner family in Beijing: 'Invest $500,000 and immigrate' to US" by Jackie Wattles and Serenitie Wang.

Article: "Ivanka Trump Lied About Trump Organization Projects To Secure Deals Worldwide: Report" by Jessica Kwong.

Article: "How Health Care Investors Are Helping Run Jared Kushner's Shadow Coronavirus Task Force" by Pema Levy.

Article: "Dr. Judy Mikovits Plandemic documentary removed from YouTube for violating "misinformation" rules" by Constitutional Nobody.

Article: "COVID-19 conspiracy frenzy after White House hot mic picks up bizarre vaccine claim" by Oli Smith.

Article: "Guillain-Barré syndrome" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Unemployed Protests 1930s" by University of Washington.

Article: "America First Committee" by Wikipedia.

TV: "The Plot Against America" by HBO.

Book: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth.

Article: "The poor 'just don't want health care': Republican congressman faces backlash over comments" by Kristine Phillips.

Article: "Woman who accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of sexual assault now claims Trump supporters paid her to lie" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Top Trump Donor Tapped As New Postmaster General" by Nick Visser.

Article: "15 Children Are Hospitalized With Mysterious Illness Possibly Tied to Covid-19" by Joseph Goldstein.

Article: "Oregon's first coronavirus patient - Lake Oswego school custodian - released from hospital after 2 months" by Noelle Crombie.

Site: Tracking COVID-19 - Johns Hopkins University.

Article: "Trump tweets support for Michigan protesters, some of whom were armed, as 2020 stress mounts" by Kevin Liptak.

Tweet: "The Governor of Michigan should give a little, and put out the fire. These are very good people, but they are angry. They want their lives back again, safely! See them, talk to them, make a deal." by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "3 McDonald's employees were shot in Oklahoma City after telling a woman the dining room was closed because of COVID-19, police say" by Charles Davis.

Article: "Arizona's GOP governor slammed for firing scientists who warned reopening the state will endanger public health" by Alex Henderson.

Article: "Win Or Lose, Trump's Top Campaign Aides Are Raking In The Cash" by S.V. Date.

Bible: "Psalm 73 Surely God Is Good to Israel: A Psalm of Asaph"

Article: "Coronavirus: U.S. death toll passes 70,000" by Yahoo News.

Article: "Trump boosters: Don't believe the coronavirus death toll" by Tina Nguyen.

Article: "Cases in the U.S." by CDC.

Article: "New poll: Nearly half of frequent Fox viewers say COVID-19 death toll is inflated" by Matt Gertz.

Article: "Trolls and bots are flooding social media with disinformation encouraging states to end quarantine" by Thor Benson.

Article: "Florida medical examiners were releasing coronavirus death data. The state made them stop" by Kethleen McGrory And Rebecca Woolington.

Hour Two: Has Trump Figured Out How to Rig the Stock Market For the Investor Class... His Peeps?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Understanding Marxism / Understanding Socialism

Article: "Fed Chair Powell Has Upwards of $11.6 Million Invested with BlackRock, the Firm that Will Manage a $750 Billion Corporate Bond Bailout Program for the Fed" by Pam Martens and Russ Martens.

Article: "Dot-com bubble" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Financial crisis of 2007-08" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wall Street Crash of 1929" by Wikipedia.

Site: American Bridge.

Site: Indivisible.

Article: "Peter Thiel" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thiel tech firm Palantir to help Trump admin. track coronavirus" by MSNBC.

Article: "Republicans Nearly Three Times More Likely Than Democrats To Refuse Coronavirus Vaccine: Poll" by Jeffery Martin.

Article: "Poll: 20% of Republicans insist they'll refuse a COVID-19 vaccine if and when one is available" by Dartagnan.

Article: "Rapture" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ohio GOP lawmaker says he won't wear mask because faces are the 'likeness of God'" by Tyler Buchanan.

Tweet: "Lynching is alive and well in America... https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1257758670848483328" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Top Republican fundraiser and Trump ally named postmaster general, giving president new influence over Postal Service" by Josh Dawsey, Lisa Rein and Jacob Bogage.

Article: "WATCH: Gun-toting Michigan protesters pack into statehouse to scream in one another's faces" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Rick Wilson (political consultant)" by Wikipedia.

Book: Everything Trump Touches Dies by Rick Wilson.

Video: The Lincoln Project: 'Mourning in America' | Campaign 2020 .

Article: "The Lincoln Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Astoria Column" by Wikipedia.

Article: "FEMA seized 5MILLION face masks ordered for veterans and sent them to the federal stockpile, VA official says" by Lauren Edmonds.

Article: "How a Ship's Coronavirus Outbreak Became a Moral Crisis for the Military" by Helene Cooper, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Eric Schmitt.

Article: "Brett Crozier" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cambridge Analytica" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New Research Says Air Conditioning Can Spread COVID-19, But It's More Complicated Than That" by Zee Krstic.

Hour Three: Science revolution: The Murder Hornets Are Coming...!
- Professor Gard W. Otis, Entomologist / Adjunct Professor (2018-present) / Professor of Behavioural Ecology and Apiculture (1982-2017) - School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario, Canada)

Article: "Asian giant hornet" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Murder Hornets Are In Canada Because 2020 Just Keeps On Going" by Sima Shakeri.

Article: "Nanaimo beekeepers discover, destroy Asian giant hornet nest" by Adam Chan.

Article: "WSU scientists enlist citizens in hunt for giant, bee-killing hornet" by Seth Truscott.

Article: "Graphic video of 'murder hornet' killing mouse shows how lethal they are" by Ben Cost.

Article: "'Moscow Mitch' McConnell 'fuming' with trolling" by Ari Melber.

Article: "'Breakthrough' COVID-19 Tests Are Currently Cheap, Fast-and Not Very Accurate" by Jim Daley.

Article: "President Trump Remarks Visiting Honeywell Manufacturing Plant, Arizona - 4:30pm ET Livestream..." by sundance.

Article: "Iowa tells workers to return to their jobs or lose unemployment benefits, despite warnings that reopening could lead to a second wave of infections" by Juliana Kaplan.

Site: Free Speech TV

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "America is an oligarchy, not a democracy or republic, university study finds" by Cheryl K. Chumley.

Article: "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page.

Article: "Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).

Article: "William Barber II" by Wikipedia.

Site: Rising Up with Sonali.

Quote: "A Single Death is a Tragedy; a Million Deaths is a Statistic" - attributed to Joseph Stalin.

Article: "Trump's covid-19 inaction killed Americans. Here's a counter that shows how many." by Eugene Jarecki

Site: Trump Death Clock.

Article: "'Live and Let Die' blasted out as Trump toured a coronavirus mask factory without covering his face" by Mia Jankowicz.

Article: "Defense Production Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Coronavirus: Far-right spreads Covid-19 'infodemic' on Facebook" by Carl Miller.

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