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Thom Hartman 6/24/25
Trump’s Empire of Lies and Loot
“I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.”
![Thom Hartman 6/24/25 Trump's Empire of Lies and Loot ““I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.” If all power be suffered to slide into hands [of rich property owners],” he warned, the American citizenry would “become the dupes and instruments of ambition, or their poverty and independence will render them the mercenary instruments of wealth. In either case liberty will be subverted; in the first by a despotism growing out of anarchy, in the second, by an oligarchy founded on corruption.” - Father of the Constitution James Madison “I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.” - Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson [Thomas Jefferson] added with the warning that if we were ever to end up with an oligarchic government that was run, directly or indirectly, by wealthy predators who'd seized our government, America’s working people. “...that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for | can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”](/proxy/post_attachment/1973266/9228d65d9f.jpeg "Thom Hartman 6/24/25 Trump's Empire of Lies and Loot ““I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.” If all power be suffered to slide into hands [of rich property owners],” he warned, the American citizenry would “become the dupes and instruments of ambition, or their poverty and independence will render them the mercenary instruments of wealth. In either case liberty will be subverted; in the first by a despotism growing out of anarchy, in the second, by an oligarchy founded on corruption.” - Father of the Constitution James Madison “I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.” - Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson [Thomas Jefferson] added with the warning that if we were ever to end up with an oligarchic government that was run, directly or indirectly, by wealthy predators who'd seized our government, America’s working people. “...that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for | can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”")
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