Because he has not been held to account, Trumpism has spread across the US landscape like metastasized cancer, with GOP politicians who aspire to corrupt strongman status emulating him in every state.

Trump unleashed what has become a million US Covid deaths, a war in Ukraine, and an attempted coup against the United States, all while coarsening our politics and ratcheting up hate. And now racist, rightwing politicians who disdain democracy are imitating him all across the nation.

What is the impact of all this on America and Americans, and when will he be held to account?

Five years ago today, Donald Trump broke the law and outed an Israeli spy who'd embedded himself into ISIS.

Trump gave the code-word-classified-Top-Secret intelligence to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, when he and Russian Ambassador Kislyak had a "private" meeting with Trump in the Oval Office which was not on Trump's calendar or announced to the US press.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "How Will Trump's Deadly Sabotage Of America End?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Trump's disclosure endangered spy placed inside ISIS by Israel, officials say" by Brian Ross, James Gordon Meek, Randy Kreider.

Article: "Trump disbanded NSC pandemic unit that experts had praised" by Deb Riechmann.

Article: "Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States (2020) - March" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "For the purpose of creating conflict and confusion, some in the Fake News Media are saying that it is the Governors decision to open up the states, not that of the President of the United States & the Federal Government. Let it be fully understood that this is incorrect...." [...It is the decision of the President, and for many good reasons. With that being said, the Administration and I are working closely with the Governors, and this will continue. A decision by me, in conjunction with the Governors and input from others, will be made shortly!] by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Russia Expert Fiona Hill Explains Why Jan. 6 Was Key Moment For Putin And Ukraine" by Lee Moran.

Site: Trump Death Toll.

Article: "Trump Org Made $1.7 Billion While Trump Was President, Much of It From Taxpayers" by Chris Walker.

Tweet: "Virologist and sexy vixen vinyl expert @brithume hypothesizes that the lethality of COVID–19 could be exaggerated and "the disease turned out not to be quite as dangerous as we thought"" by Bad Fox Graphics.

Article: "Revealed: The highly sensitive Israeli intelligence on Isis that Donald Trump gave away to Russia" by Jon Sharman.

Article: "Tucker Carlson: Coronavirus crisis "may have passed. We'll see but it looks like it may have"" by Media Matters.

Article: "Rush Limbaugh slams news coverage of coronavirus racial disparity: "This is how they stop criticism"" by Media Matters.

Article: "Trump administration scrapped plan to send every American a mask in April, email shows" by Laura Strickler and Geoff Bennett.

Article: "Black Americans Face Alarming Rates of Coronavirus Infection in Some States" by John Eligon, Audra D. S. Burch, Dionne Searcey and Richard A. Oppel Jr.

Article: "For Black Men, Fear That Masks Will Invite Racial Profiling" by Derrick Bryson Taylor.

Article: "Trump Friends and Family Cleared for Millions in Small Business Bailout" by Jack Gillum, Isaac Arnsdorf, Jake Pearson and Mike Spies.

Article: "Five years ago, Trump secretly celebrated firing FBI director and gave Russians classified intel inside the Oval Office" by David Badash.

Article: "White House denies Trump is considering firing Fauci despite his retweet of a hashtag calling for his ouster" by Katie Shepherd, John Wagner and Felicia Sonmez.

Article: "I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it." by Beth Cameron.

Article: "Watch Live: President Biden Delivers Another Speech On Inflation Warning "Ultra-MAGA" Republicans Would Be Worse" by Tim Hains.

Article: "BP profits soar to highest in 10 years as calls grow for windfall tax" by Pedro Goncalves.

Article: "Merrick Garland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ron DeSantis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "DeSantis signs bill mandating communism lessons in class, as GOP leans on education" by Miami Herald.

Article: "DeSantis signs bill designating statewide Victims of Communism Day" by Ronn Blitzer.

Article: "A Second MAGA Clerk in Colorado Also Breached Voting Machines" by Kelly Weill.

Book: The Masks of Communism by Dan Norman Jacobs.

Case: "1st draft Dobbs v. Jackson".

Article: "Justices void abortion 'buffer zone'" by Jennifer Haberkorn and Natalie Villacorta.

Tweet: "It's messed up that protesters showed up at Brett Kavanaugh's house on a Sunday morning. Do they not realize how hungover he must have been" by The Daily Show.

Article: "High fence erected outside Supreme Court as abortion-related protests continue" by Alexandra Hutzler.

Article: "CBS Chief Les Moonves Says Trump's 'Damn Good' For Business" by Nick Visser.

Article: "Tamir Rice killing: US closes investigation into 2014 shooting" by BBC.

Article: "Marsha Blackburn" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Partly false claim: Ebola, SARS, swine flu and zika outbreaks happened when Obama was in office, "nothing was canceled, suspended and stock market was smooth sailing"" by Reuters.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand" by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea" by Wikipedia.

Article: "America Must Never Forget what Trump & the GOP Did On April 7th, 2020" by Thom Hartmann.

Site: "The Righting".

Article: "The Supreme Court's Decision On Overturning Roe Will Be An Inflection Point For The Nation" by Joy Pullmann.

Article: "Ben Franklin Put an Abortion Recipe in His Math Textbook" by Molly Farrell.

Article: "UH OH… Biden's New Press Secretary Just Started and Already Has Some 'Splainin' To Do…." by Sophie O'Hara.

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia.

Article: "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" (GATT) by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "Journalists covering demonstrations in from of Alito's house are being given wine and cheese by neighors (and key lime pie, in another post) and funny how the neighbors respect the legal right to peaceful protest more than the legal people do." by Maryn McKenna.

Article: "Dear Fux Nose: There've Been 11 Murders, 41 Bombings, and 173 Arson Acts Committed By Anti-Choice..." by TrollBuster9090.

Article: "Anti-abortion violence - United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Charlottesville car attack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Shootings, Arrest, Trial and More: The Kyle Rittenhouse Story Explained" by NBC5.

Case: "McCullen v. Coakley" (2014).

Article: "Abortion Rights Groups Plan 'Bans Off Our Bodies' Day of Action on May 14" by Chelsea Steiner.

Event: May 14"'Bans Off Our Bodies' Day of Action".

Article: "Housing bubble 2.0? Regional housing markets are beginning to look like they did in 2007" by Lance Lambert.

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

Article: "Liar Loan" by Investopedia.

Article: "National Archives retrieved 15 boxes of Trump White House documents from Mar-a-Lago" by Kevin Breuninger.

Article: "Mercury Retrograde Meaning & More" by Astrology.com.

Article: "The Supreme Court as an Instrument of Oppression" by Charles M. Blow.

Case: "Plessy v Ferguson".

Case: "Dred Scott v Sandford".

Article: "Americans' confidence in Supreme Court plummets, poll finds" by Mark Moore.

Article: "The Death of Roe Is Going to Tear America Apart" by Michelle Goldberg.

Article: "Branches of the U.S. Government" by usa.gov.

Case: "Roe v Wade".

Article: "American Civil War" (1861 - 1865) by Wikipedia.

Law: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.".

Law: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause).

Law: "15th Amendment", February 3, 1870 "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude".

Case: "Brown v Board of Education".

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Ron DeSantis Wins Florida Governor Race After Recount, Gillum Refuses to Concede" by Zachary Stieber.

Article: "How Jeb Bush Stole the 2000 Election for His Brother" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Supreme Court gives Ohio right to purge thousands of voters from its rolls" by Pete Williams.

Video: 60 Minutes: Lack of new construction and corporate landlords contributing to skyrocketing rent.

Site: Zillow.

Article: "These 10 Republicans were the only House members to vote against a bill to lend defensive military equipment to Ukraine" by Bryan Metzger.

Article: "Hyde Amendment" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How the future of Roe is testing Roberts on the Supreme Court" by Robert Barnes, Carol D. Leonnig and Ann E. Marimow.

Article: "Bay of Pigs Invasion" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: After women's rights, marriage equality & LGBTQ rights under attack too?
- Michelangelo Signorile, Journalist / Commentator & Host - Michelangelo Signorile Show - SXMProgress ch. 127 3-6 ET M-F (immediately following The Thom Hartmann Program)

Site: The Signorile Report.

Article: "SCOTUS leak was just one example of GOP's clear threat to LGBTQ rights last week" by Michelangelo Signorile.

Case: "Lawrence v Texas" (2003) (made same-sex sexual activity legal).

Case: "Griswold v Connecticut" (1965) (contraception for married couples).

Article: "Eisenstadt v. Baird" (1972) (birth control for unmarried women) by Wikipedia.

Case: "Obergefell v Hodges" (2015) (same sex marriage).

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene promises to introduce federal 'Don't Say Gay' bill" by Lily Wakefield.

Article: "Republican Senators Want TV Ratings to Warn Viewers About 'Disturbing' LGBTQ Content " by William Vaillancourt.

Article: "Biden warns LGBTQ+ children could be next target of Republican 'Maga crowd'" by Martin Pengelly.

Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.

Law: "United States Bill of Rights" by Wikipedia.

Law: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" .

Law: "3rd Amendment". No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law..

Law: "4th Amendment". "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.".

Law: "5th Amendment" (double jeopardy, witness against self, due process, taking clause, due compensation).

Law: "9th Amendment".

Article: "No Religious Test Clause" by Wikipedia.

Podcast: "Meltdown".

Article: "'Our House Is Truly on Fire': Earth Now Has 50% Chance of Hitting 1.5°C of Warming by 2026" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Fierce winds drive wildfires in U.S. Southwest" by Andrew Hay.

Article: "Lake Mead Water Levels Reach New Low" by Cristina Tuser.

Article: "QAnon followers believed leader's decree that utilities are free — now their power is being shut off" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Sovereign immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Separation of church and state in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stare Decisis" by Merriam-Webster.

Article: "James Madison And Church-State Separation" by Rob Boston.

Article: "U.S. Senate to vote Wednesday on abortion rights bill, Schumer says" by Reuters.

Article: ""Foreclosure King" Steven Mnuchin Doesn't Appreciate His Totally Accurate Nickname" by Bess Levin.

Video: Last Hours.

Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be talking with Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an eBook)

Plus, I'll be talking with Clayton Thomas-Müller, Senior Campaign Specialist - 350.org about "Reparations, Healing and Reconciliation—A Battle Against the Winter Spirit, Witigo"

And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...

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And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...

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