Donald Trump just pulled off the biggest bait-and-switch in American history.

Back when he was a presidential candidate, Trump said things about the big banks that made him sound like a Bernie Sanders Democrat.

In his final ad before Election Day, for example, he blasted the "global power structure" that he said was robbing the country blind and enriching the wealthy at the expense of working Americans.

That campaign ad -- and really the entire Donald Trump campaign -- will now go down in history as a con job of epic proportions.

All that populist talk about fighting the "draining the swamp"?

It was another one of those pesky little "Alternative Facts" Kellyanne Conway is always talking about.

It was a lie.

Instead of fighting the "global economic power structure," Donald Trump is now hard at work making it even more powerful.

For example, he's now asking the Labor Department to scrap the so-called fiduciary rule, which requires investors who manage retirement accounts to act in the best interest of their investors - not Wall Street.

Sounds pretty good, right?

Not for the banksters.

Read more here.

-Thom

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Monday's Daily Stack 

Article: "As Senate offices are overwhelmed with calls against DeVos, supporters resort to shady tactics" by Casey Quinlan.

Article: "Donald Trump administration 'wants to cut white supremacism from counter-extremism programme'" by Lizzie Dearden.

Article: "Trump Posted A False News Report To His Facebook Page And Got Thousands Of Shares" by David Mack.

Article: "Smart! 'Kuwait issues its own Trump-esque visa ban for five Muslim-majority countries | Al Bawaba'" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Kuwait denies imposing 'smart' travel ban praised by Trump on Facebook" by Noah Browning.

Article: ""Wait Calmly"" (Adolf Hitler) by Volker Ullrich.

Tweet: "If Jon Stewart is so above it all & legit, why did he change his name from Jonathan Leibowitz? He should be proud of his heritage!" by Donald J. Trump, 3 May 2013.

Article: "Reichstag fire", 27 February 1933 by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Fourth Turning" by William Strauss, Neil Howe.

Book: "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink" by Thom Hartmann

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann (read online)

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann

 

Article: "That MSNBC Interview Was Not the First Time Kellyanne Conway Referred to the "Bowling Green Massacre"" by Kristen Mascia.

Article: "Weimar Republic" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Triumph des Willens (1935) - Triumph of the Will".

Article: "Donald Trump Super Bowl interview transcript with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly" by Matt Ellentuck.

Video: Did Trump support the Iraq War? Here's the full timeline from 2002 to 2004..

Law: "8 U.S. Code § 1182 - Inadmissible aliens".

Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer.

Article: "Seattle Times to cut newsroom jobs" by Seattle Times.

Article: "KOMO cuts positions in newsroom" by Rachel Lerman.

Article: "Yoo: President can order child's testicles crushed, not contractor transparency" by Joan McCarter, Apr 29, 2011.

Article: "Executive Power Run Amok" by John Yoo.

Movie: "Judgment at Nuremberg".

Movie: "The Birth of a Nation (1915)".

Article: "Building the realm of alternative facts: Trump's lies are enabled by years of right-wing media" By Heather Digby Parton.

Article: "Treaty of Versailles" by Wikipedia (28 June 1919, at the end of World War I).

Article: "Mexican Repatriation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lawmaker Wants Women To Spend Sundays Making Husbands Breakfast In Bed" by Jenavieve Hatch.

Article: "Democrats plan all-night protest ahead of DeVos vote" by Jordain Carney.

Article: "Trump Says Banking Rules Must Change Because His Friends "Just Can't Get Any Money"" by Matthew Zeitlin.

Site: Patriotic Millionaires.

Article: "Donald Trump's politically risky tilt at the fiduciary rule" by FT.

Article: "Obama Admin: Trump Lying About Raid That Killed Navy Seal".

Article: "Police Raid Standing Rock Last Child Camp, Arrest 76".

Site: Lakota People's Law Project.

Movie: "Watching Hitler's Back: Hitler's Bodyguard".

Article: "Trump's F.C.C. Pick Quickly Targets Net Neutrality Rules" by Cecilia Kang.

Article: "Trump has been great for the cable news business" by Claire Atkinson.

Article: "TV networks hiking ad rates for shows Trump watches" by Daniel Lippman and Anna Palmer.

Article: "Jim Mattis Seeks to Soothe Tensions in Japan and South Korea" by Michael R. Gordon and Choe Sang-hun.

Tweet: "@Thom_Hartmann update phone lines are busy and voice message full. So tweet or Facebook your Senator" by Mark White.

Speech: "2017 State of the State Address - Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert, January 25, 2017".

Article: "Democratic National Committee chairmanship election, 2017", February 23-26, 2017.

Site: Democratic National Committee

Book: I Paid Hitler by Fritz Thyssen.

Article: "California Moves To Become A Sanctuary State As Texas Takes A Hard Line" by Ali Winston.

Article: "Trump Threatens to Defund California If It Becomes a Sanctuary State" by Leah Barkoukis.

 

Talk Media News Segment:
- Victoria Jones 

Article: "Trump's Immigration Order Is Getting Slammed With Legal Opposition" by Lydia O'Connor.

Article: "Sean Spicer: It's 'Sad to See a Judge Go Rogue' by Blocking Travel Ban" by David Bixenspan.

Article: "Speaker Bercow: Trump should not speak in Parliament" by BBC.

Article: "MPs to debate Donald Trump state visit petition" (20 February) by BBC.

Article: "Missouri Governor Signs Right-To-Work Bill Passed By GOP Legislature" by Dave Jamieson.

Law: "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act", 2010.

Article: "Pelosi calls Trump's plan to dismantle financial regulations a 'massive con' and vows to fight it" by Jim Puzzanghera.

Article: "Trump's Debts Are Widely Held on Wall Street, Creating New Potential Conflicts" by Jean Eaglesham and Lisa Schwartz.

Article: "Pelosi says it's too soon to consider impeaching Trump" by Bryan Renbaum.

Article: "Dem senator: Gorsuch 'of the far extreme right'" by Rebecca Savransky.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman 

Hour Three: Extreme Vetting For People But Not For Banks....
- Professor William Black, University of Missouri at Kansas City/The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One    

Article: "Trump Set to Rollback Financial Regulation Passed After the 2008 Crisis" by Bill Black.

Article: "Republicans Plan to "De-Supervise" the Consumer Financial Protection Board" by Bill Black.

Article: "Private Sector Will Make a Killing Off of Infrastructure Bank" by Bill Black.

Quote: "Less government in business and more business in government" - Warren Harding.

Law: "Glass-Steagall Act", 1933.

Law: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (1999) (Financial Services Modernization Act Of 1999).

Law: "Commodity Futures Modernization Act", 2000.

Article: "Enron scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Brooksley Born" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Brexit" by Wikipedia.

 

Article: "C4ISR - Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance".

Site: Act Out!

Book: The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal.

Video: Hitler.

Article: "AOL Agrees To Acquire The Huffington Post".

Movie: "The Big Short".

Documentary: Inside Job by Charles Ferguson.

Article: "Ghost of 'The Big Short' Haunts Wall Street: Bespoke tranche opportunity resembles the financial instruments that wrecked the housing market." by Lou Carlozo.

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Site: Move to Amend

Case: "San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez", 1973.

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt)

Article: "Poll Of Likely 2016 Voters" by GBA Strategies on behalf of the Progressive Change Institute.

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