How legit is Thom Hartmann?

[Beastly Boy]

37. It is hard, if not impossible, for an American political pundit, let alone a left-leaning American

pundit, to justify working in cooperation with the media mouthpiece that was branded by US intelligence as "The Kremlin’s principal international propaganda outlet" in their report (https://www.scribd.com/document/335885580/Unclassified-version-of-intelligence-report-on-Russian-hacking-during-the-2016-election#download&from_embed). This report was made public in January 2017, and I have no doubt that Hartmann was aware of it then, while he continued collaborating with RT for eight months afterwards. I can give Hartmann some benefit of doubt, despite his otherwise perceptive acumen, that he was not aware of RT's role prior to the intelligence report being made public, but his continued collaboration with RT erases my doubt completely.

His continued association with Trump enablers despite full awareness of their subversive interference which lead to Trump's victory in 2016 is more consistent with an image of an opportunistic demagogue than that of a highly principled intellectual which Hartmann is trying to project.

I am, without addressing his unquestionably sharp intellect for which I am giving him full credit, and without addressing his political ideology which I find objectionable on many levels, also trying to explain why he went there, and the explanation I am coming up with doesn't look good.

And his membership in DU doesn't absolve him of the role, however tertiary, he played in the 2016 elections.