The Deep State hatched its plot against Trump very early, and they told us so
Right after the 2016 election, I read some articles describing people in government who had decided to stay put and secretly sabotage Trump. These articles weren’t exposes written by the right; they were proud confessions from the left, part of the righteous Resistance.
We are seeing the fruit of that today.
I hadn’t noted the links to any of those articles at the time, so recently I got curious to see whether I could find one. Here’s an excerpt from one typical article of the type, published in Vanity Fair on February 1, 2017, twelve days after Trump’s inauguration [emphasis mine]:
Others, however, view resistance as a part of the job. “Policy dissent is in our culture,” one diplomat in Africa, who signed the letter circulating among foreign diplomats, told The New York Times. “We even have awards for it,” this person added, in reference to the State Department’s “Constructive Dissent” award. One Justice Department employee told the Post, “You’re going to see the bureaucrats using time to their advantage,” and added that “people here will resist and push back against orders they find unconscionable,” by whistle-blowing, leaking to the press, and lodging internal complaints. Others are staying in contact with officials appointed by President Obama to learn more about how they can undermine Trump’s agenda and attending workshops on how to effectively engage in civil disobedience, the Post reports.
Let me emphasize that again: whistle-blowing, leaking to the press, and lodging internal complains.
And then we have this, from the same article [emphasis added]:
When asked how the opposition emerging at this stage compares to past administrations, Tom Malinowski, who served as Obama’s assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, sarcastically told the Post, “Is it unusual? There’s nothing unusual about the entire national security bureaucracy of the United States feeling like their commander in chief is a threat to U.S. national security. That happens all the time. It’s totally usual. Nothing to worry about.”
The “nothing unusual” part was sarcasm, of course. But the rest was deadly serious. The plan was in place from the start, and it’s not some wild conspiracy-mongering to say so. This is a clandestine conspiracy, but not a completely secret one in the sense that we were told about its general thrust in advance by the proud perpetrators themselves. An interesting detail from those quotes is that “Obama officials” were apparently in charge of orchestrating this.
Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist also noticed the trend back in the beginning. She wrote the following in an article from January 17, 2017. That’s a few days before the inauguration:
Dwight Eisenhower warned that if we didn’t stay vigilant, the military-industrial complex would start creeping into politics with pernicious motives all its own. The intelligence community’s war of leaks against Trump before he’s even taken office is just the latest questionably politicized action in the decades since Eisenhower’s farewell address. And it’s safe to say that the intelligence community pushing unproven and absurd allegations about a president-elect’s sexual perversions is probably way worse than anything Ike imagined.
In order to understand how we got to this perilous place and get a handle on what’s going on, it’s worth taking a closer look at the motives and allegations of political operatives in intelligence agencies, as well as the basic timeline of allegations of Russian electoral interference in the last few months. Far from discrediting Trump, it paints a worrisome portrait of the deep state gone rogue, desperate to stop a man who, whatever his considerable flaws, is an outsider to Washington.
She then goes into a series of warnings issued to Trump to beware of ruffling the feathers of the intelligence community. The most famous one, with which you might be familiar, was issued by Chuck Schumer:
…President-elect Donald Trump is “being really dumb” by taking on the intelligence community and its assessments on Russia’s cyber activities.
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.
Remember, this was before Trump was inaugurated.
More:
Presidential historian Timothy Naftali said on a CNN panel that Trump should stay “silent” lest harmful information be released against him.
NeverTrumper David Frum wrote a tweet that said, “CIA message to Trump: you mess with us, get ready for a leakstorm of Biblical proportions.”
The rest of Hemingway’s article is well worth reading, despite its age. Or maybe because of its age. It’s a reminder of how many things happened very early in the game that are congruent with and basically telegraphed what would happen with Russiagate and now Whistleblowergate.
Time to “splinter the C.I.A. in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.” JFK said that, or is said to have said it.
Still good advice. I’m not feeling the love for the FBI, DOJ or IRS either. Some high-up people need to be tried and go to prison. It was good enough for John Mitchell and John Erlichman after Watergate, and this is much, much worse.
Recall this early resister-blabber?: Evelyn Farkas
Oh look, Ukraine again. How about that?
These dolts lack all touch with practical wisdom (phronesis), the very thing Trump has striven his lifetime to acquire in spades. It’s no freaking wonder he runs circles around them.
Thanks for your unflinching analysis.
I think you may remember I was very anti-Trump but reluctantly voted for him. I think I made the right choice and while he has his flaws, he’s definitely doing many things I now agree with on say, border security, international relations, and other areas. I am in shock actually, in a continual way, at the resistence to Trump which began yes, before he was even inaugurated. It’s one thing to disagree or dislike a president and it’s another thing to aim to destroy him or remove him from office with any means necessary. I actually am and remain extremely worried about this country, we could be heading to armed conflict though maybe that is alarmist, I don’t know. However, if Trump is removed from office, there are people on the right who will actively resist and who are armed. This I hear and read online and I trust it is likely true.
I am not sure where that would leave someone like me who is not anti-gun but doesn’t own one. Let’s hope the above scenario never materializes. At the least though there will be civil unrest which has already been escalating.
The Dems are also now trapped under the spell of the socialist left as is the mainstream media. This has never happened quite like this. Again, worrisome…
I’ll believe something from Huber when I see it — indictments of McCabe and Comey when I see them.
Until indictments, Reps are losing.
I don’t think it’s too late for Hillary to be indicted — but I doubt that Barr has any DOJ attorneys now willing to go to court. Not sure about the statute of limitations, either.
Almost all of the gov’t decision makers, including those who hire new gov’t people, hate Trump and avoid hiring anybody who doesn’t hate Trump. I’ve seen many stories, which I believe, of high level gov’t positions supposedly open, but the pro-Trump folk applying don’t even get into the interview, so some (secret? or not) anti-Trump experienced clerk gets hired.
Personnel is policy. The actual gov’t, like actual colleges, are full of anti-Free Speech, anti-Rep folk.
It’s increasingly scary. On the other hand, the Dems are also trying to provoke a violent reaction, so as to justify their perfidy. I hope Reps keep mostly ignoring the Dem media.
We are rapidly reaching the point where it might be a raze and salt the ground exercise with D.C. You can’t have a government that is answerable to no one, and a fair analysis is that that is exactly what we have today.
When pro trump applies for job can they like pretend to hate trump in the interviews and only show their trump supporting true color after the appointment is secured?
Only when their English sounds like the Great8’s, if you get my snowdrift.
The prescient Mollie should be nicknamed Cassandra; the country as a whole might have been the focus of her warning, but the absolute schism in the Republican Party is happening as foretold.
NRO is proof in itself, but look at a few other headlines from conservative sites.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/trump_exposes_paul_ryan_and_romney_republicans.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/judge_napolitanos_descent_into_foolishnes.html
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/09/28/meet-the-first-house-republican-backing-the-dems-impeachment-inquiry-n2553855
Maybe the RINO wing is just biding its time (I cast no aspersons against Pence, but the NeverTrumpers seem to like him better).
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/09/the_800pound_gorilla_in_the_impeachment_room.html
That didn’t make sense because I left out the part about many people on the Right rallying around Trump in re the Ukraine phone call, and being chastised for it by other conservatives as being too ready to support the President.
The examples were of those on the right being too ready to attack him by accepting the premises of the Democrats.
huxley – Edit likes me better than it likes you!
On the subject of oracles, the GOP should have listened more to Gingrigrich (as quoted in Vanity Fair):
The difficulty of following Newt’s advice has been a decided handicap to President Trump, as noted above:
We seem to get more applicants pretending to be conservatives.
McCarthy weighs in on the Napolitano-DiGenova fracas here, with his usual acumen, and supports my “schism” observation.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/how-about-a-bipartisan-treaty-against-the-criminalization-of-elections/
I think it’s an interesting phenomenon that completely uncoordinated but roughly contemporaneous posts can draw on the same topics, in this case, “High Noon” the movie. Even if you don’t agree with the author, at least it’s an update from communist blacklisting (I doubt that Patricia is related to Senator Joe).
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/09/donald_trump_at_emhigh_noonem.html
I do disagree with her on this point: the Deep State (and I think now we are clearly entitled to use that term of conspiracy-theory now) includes Democrats and Republicans who have far, far more at stake than simply social status.
She also acknowledges the GOP schism:
Refutations of the Whistleblower’s complaints, …
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/09/28/like-clockwork-per-susan-rice-obama-admin-also-put-sensitive-info-on-special-compartmented-server/
Dyer’s post is based on a Federalist expose:
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/28/susan-rice-obama-put-call-transcripts-on-top-secret-server-too/
Dyer continues:
… and a timeline of the Coup du Jour (which I had been wishing for).
Keep in mind one this first, very salient, point that I also noticed as soon as the Whistleblower (or, more properly, the leaking Rotten Snitch*) complaint was published.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/09/28/timeline-of-a-six-ways-from-sunday-shadow-war-whistleblower-rule-change-other-events-in-context/
Dyer is the only one I’ve seen who has folded-in the change-over in leadership at DNI (explained in the timeline) as part of the overall plan to Get Trump.
A fuller timeline would, of course, include what was going on in Ukraine, including the status of the foreign aid that is supposedly the QUID, and the corruption investigations which are the alleged PRO QUO, including the NYT admission that the Ukrainians did not know, at the time of the phone call, that their aid had been frozen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/us/politics/trump-un-biden-ukraine.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fkenneth-p.-vogel&action=click&contentCollection=undefined®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=collection
*https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/09/snitches_and_rats_and_backstabbers__geraldo_rivera_of_all_people_sympathizes_with_trump.html
When you lose Geraldo….
I don’t think that the Democrats knew ahead of time that Trump was going to talk to Zerensky about the Bidens, but they certainly might have expected something like that to happen because of all the back-stage stuff that was going on; or, perhaps, they were just laying ground-work to take advantage of anything Trump might do that would fit the template; or they may even have had another plot-line in mind that either fell through, or was pre-empted by the more useful Ukrainian gambit.
Take your choice: we are not only living in a Spy Thriller Reality Show, but one with a Choose Your Own Ending format.
The Deep State is not above changing its past if the present is a hindrance to their desired future.
https://www.redstate.com/bonchie/2019/09/28/senate-democrat-claimed-evidence-trump-ukraine-corruption-changes-story/
https://www.redstate.com/stu-in-sd/2019/09/28/ukraine-leakerwhistleblower-part-ii/
This MO has been extensively discussed at The Conservative Treehouse.
This poster, Stu Cvrk, gives a very thorough summation of what is suspected and what is known to date.
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2019/09/29/if-the-case-for-trumps-impeachment-is-so-strong-why-are-liberals-lying-about-it-n2553861
Derek Hunter lists a lot of the new revelations about the coordinated moving parts of the Ukraine Phone Conspiracy, and closes with this:
In reading today’s news, I was amused to see how quickly the conservative pundits all jump onto the same new page, but in their case it is reactive (everyone has to give their own view of the New Bombshell to justify their existence), whereas the left is the side throwing the bombs.
And, occasionally, being hoist on their own petards.
Streiff focuses on a topic that actually may be of urgent concern, involving possible collusion, and actual governmental malfeasance.
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2019/09/28/intelligence-community-ig-actively-aid-whistleblower-impeachment-quest/
[after a long recitation of ICIG Atkinson’s suspect activities, using occasional intemperate verbiage, he concludes:]
If true, this would further erode the public’s trust in government, as the Inspectors General are currently viewed as being at least somewhat above the partisan fray, as much as anyone can be in DC.
If that trust is lost, I don’t know what other institutions remain accorded any public respect.
https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/09/27/mark-levin-fire-calls-adam-schiff-release-90-days-texts-phone-calls-emails-leaker/
Quoting Levin:
Game Theory – Anatole Rapaport’s Tit-for-Tat schemata is the best strategy to win in Prisoner’s Dilemma games.
Saul Alinski – 4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
Orwell – “So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.”
So, that’s sort of a good question . . . except for the obvious difficulty that the Senate Intel committee is in the hands of Sen. Richard Burr, who is deeply implicated in the Spygate corruption after allowing himself to be led around by the nose by Sen. Mark Warner (a man even more corrupted by the soft coup of Spygate). So scratch that committee doing anything good, but working to prolong the torment.
As to the Senate Judiciary committee? Is there something in it for Lindsay Graham? Maybe. Too, Sen. Graham may be pressured a bit by some of his members — or we can hope so anyhow — therefore we may see that committee rise to the occasion eventually. On the other hand, I suspect Sen. Graham is preparing his committee for big doings testimony from IG Horowitz after the recess, with quite a few of the central bad guys being lined up for public verbal assassination after Horowitz is done.
These preparations may be overriding Graham’s ability to adjust to fast moving circumstances, hence, the lack of effort on the “wishyblower” case thus far. That’s wishyblower for a reason, not a typo.
All these people are going to fight till the end, go down with the ship. They hate the President so much they are not going to let a little thing like having to lie deter them. They want him gone and are willing to lie to make it happen. Trump Derangement Syndrome is the Kool-Aid at Jonestown.
Because if they don’t, their facade of being Nice People™/Smart People™ will be fully exposed as a false front … just as Al Czervik exposed the rot of Judge Smails in Caddyshack.
And so much of their employability and social status – including the ability to look down on their neighbors – is hanging on that facade.
The Romans had a way to encourage cooperation/performance. It’s called Decimation. Literally, if a legion/group rebelled, then 1 in 10 by lots would be chosen and executed by those who remained…
…there is a modern equivalent. Eliminate program overlap. There a dozens upon dozens of offices, bureaus, etc., that duplicate the programs of each other. Eliminate them…reduce the size of government by 40%. That’s the only way to solve this problem. Furthermore, because of the rise in easy communication, move program offices and whole departments out of Washington, DC. Move them to flyover country. Get them out of the swamp that has become our nation’s capital. Decentralize everything…
Just my 2 cents. If none of the above works, just shoot half!
Aesop fan said, “Saul Alinski – 4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.”
I also think this is a good idea. I am preparing my WB complaint now. After all: no direct knowledge required; can use MSM for “evidence”.
Sending to L Graham. We will see if stands up.
And now that creep Malinowski is my congressman.
On one of my earliest comments here sometime before the inauguration, I linked to PJ Media’s/J. Christian Adams 2011 series, titled Every Single One, about the Holder hiring of nothing but radical leftists into all the upper level civil service positions in the DOJ. They’re all still there and this study doesn’t even cover who was hired from 2012-2016 so it’s probably much worse now. It also doesn’t even cover the hiring and promotions of partisans in the FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies which were headed by two notorious partisans, Brennan and Clapper.
I also said that Trump should ask for the resignations of every Obama appointee on Day One of his presidency, and one of his first priorities should be reform of the civil service protections so partisans can be more easily terminated, because otherwise they would be permanent poison pills leaking and preventing Trump from enacting any conservative policies.
I posted that link to PJ Media’s series many dozens of times all over conservative sites since 2011 but I doubt many people took the time to read it because it is 13 very lengthy, highly detailed analyses of the resumes of every hire in the DOJ.
Understandably, too many conservatives are too busy leading their lives, tending to their careers and families to pay a lot of attention to politics. Many don’t even vote.
But look at the many high-paying “careers” those on the left gravitate towards: journalists, editors, government bureaucrats at all levels, pundits, politicians, lobbyists, union leaders, publishers, founders/employees of the ten thousand+ “non-partisan”, “public interest” tax-exempt leftwing 501(c) organizations, et al where politics is their damned job, and they can devote all their working hours to attacking conservatives, disinformation and pushing leftism.
It’s obvious this impeachment movement was coordinated by the Democrats who knew about this long before the “whistleblower” “complaint” was released and probably helped him write it. It was timed to interfere with his UN speech and the announcement of a trade agreement with Japan, and to preempt and steal the oxygen from the Horowitz report which is soon to be released. They know the time is now or it may be never, so it is going to get vicious.
And POS Tom Malinowski now sits in Congress.
Shortly after President Reagan took office I distinctly recall, since we were doing post election identification of individuals who needed to be removed from their civil service that someone walked into the conference room and announced that President Reagan had just fired the entire senior service. I don’t recall whether that was an exaggeration but those were GS 18 employees.
And of course is possible that regulations have been changed but I have wondered for the last several years why President Trump and not taking a similar step.
Democrats are impeaching the president for coercing the Ukraine president into doing his bidding by threatening to withhold military aid, but somehow the supposed victim of the alleged scheme the president of Ukraine has not expressed any resentment toward the president, on the contrary they remain to be on friendly term having a cordial conversation shaking hands for a photograph just as recently as days ago after the story had already come to light. Once again like the latest kavanaugh scandal the democrats are crying foul despite the supposed victim claiming nothing happened.
geokstr on September 29, 2019 at 11:34 am said:
On one of my earliest comments here sometime before the inauguration, I linked to PJ Media’s/J. Christian Adams 2011 series, titled Every Single One, about the Holder hiring of nothing but radical leftists into all the upper level civil service positions in the DOJ. They’re all still there and this study doesn’t even cover who was hired from 2012-2016 so it’s probably much worse now.
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It’s worse, mostly because Adams’ prediction about the 2012 election failed miserably.
http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2011/09/14/j-christian-adams-the-politicized-hiring-of-eric-holders-criminal-section/
Hey, Neo. You just got linked by rantingly.com, right at the top of the page. That should generate some traffic for you.
The most important thing that we can do is to make sure that we can “…stop it next year at the ballot box.”
The Democrats and the MSM have been trying to push the idea that there is no election fraud in this country of any consequence. Sure, a fraudulent vote here or there, but nothing to worry about.
Simultaneously, they have made every effort to see to it that no voter ID law–which would make it harder to fraudulently vote–ever gets passed, saying that large numbers of people–minorities in particular–would be denied the right to vote under such a law, because they do not have picture IDs, and it would be too onerous for them to obtain one, or its equivalence. (Some States, I note, will allow you to substitute six different forms of ID when voting, if you don’t have a drivers license.)
This, despite the fact that you have to have some form of ID–that could be used to identify you as a legitimate registered voter–to do anything in our current day society–get social security benefits, a driver’s license, buy liquor, set up a bank or checking account, get some form of credit, enroll in the military, register your child for school, get medical attention or hospital admission, or even to adopt a dog.
Say the Democrats, such a voter ID law would really institutionalize “voter suppression.”
In addition,Democrats have resisted every efforts to purge voter rolls of ineligible voters.
You might also remember that a couple of years ago, when President Trump set up a Commission to investigate voter fraud, that Commission asked States for copies of their voter rolls to begin their analysis, and so many major, Democrat controlled States refused to turnover those rolls that the Commission was prevented from doing the investigation and analysis it was supposed to do, and after a year of trying to get the information it needed to do its job, it closed up shop.
Then, there is George Soros’ “Secretaries of State Project,” which has been quietly working, under the radar, to get Democrats elected to this usually obscure post, whose holder presides over his state’s elections, administers the rules, and settles disputes. Now that’s a position with power over elections in each State.
Despite this constant refrain that there is no real voter fraud occurring in this county the odd news report or two occasionally manages to slip out of voter fraud in this or that part of the country–sometimes dozens of votes, sometimes hundreds, and occasionally indications of voter fraud on a massive scale, as when tens of thousands more voters vote than are registered in a district. Or, as was the case reported in Texas recently, when hundreds of thousands of people on the election rolls were found to be ineligible to vote, but may, in fact, have.
Then, you might remember that after a contentious election Al Franken became a Senator, after the final recount had him winning by something like 300 votes.
Does anyone think, given the efforts we have seen so far–all aimed at de-legitimizing, hampering and finally, removing President Trump from office–that the Left and Democrats won’t pullout all the stops, and try every dirty trick in the book to rig the upcoming election so that there is no way President Trump can get reelected?
So, every vote counts, and that is why all of our efforts must be concentrated on making sure that voter fraud is not allowed to happen.
Or we will lose at the ballot box.
Make that “…in this country…”
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I don’t know how I got to this article over the week-end, but it is a very long, very detailed list of the Democrat’s view of the Ukraine situation.
The “tells” include an early reference to the “debunked…conspiracy theory…Uranium One” and the headline for another article, “The Swiftboating of Joe Biden.”
However, a cursory reading shows that times, dates, people, and controversial statements are probably more accurate than Mr. Schiff’s reading of the phone call transcript, although the spin is obvious, as are some of the omissions of, shall we say, exculpatory material for the Republicans.
It’s useful to know what movie the left theater is watching.
https://www.justsecurity.org/66271/timeline-trump-giuliani-bidens-and-ukrainegate/
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/09/adam-schiff-as-the-voice-of-reason.php
Who they respect is the resident clown-sociopath. That tells you something about the character of the people who’ve collected in the House Democratic caucus.
You know, when the CIA overthrew the Iranian government years ago, the liberal Democrats were upset. When they overthrew Allende in Chile, a socialist marxist, the Democrats were upset.
1. The CIA did not overthrow the Government of Iran in 1953. They aided the lawful authority (the Shah) in preventing his own overthrow. NB, the Iranian legislature had been prorogued and the prime minister was subject to lawful dismissal. Operation Ajax wasn’t known at the time to be a CIA operation (and one suspects that agents exaggerated their exploits), so no one in Congress was ‘upset’ about it.
2. The CIA didn’t overthrow Allende, either. The Chilean flag-rank officers threw him out on their own initiative. (Outfits like the Institute for Policy Studies have been throwing out chaff for decades on this point).
Art Deco – thanks for the corrections.
However, it is a good example of the kind of “history” people get when they only listen to radio/tv/print pundits — to the point where the media’s version (on whichever movie screen you are watching) supplants any actual historical reality.
We are all living in alternate universes.
..Or maybe we are just living in the Age of Aquarius…
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