NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES COMING FOR DONALD TRUMP?
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It’s no secret in Washington that a lot of the old guard want Donald Trump gone, one way or another, and they don’t necessarily intend to wait for the next election cycle. In the German “Night of the Long Knives” (June 30-July 2, 1934) a bloody purge occurred within Hitler’s NAZI party to eliminate Sturmabteilung (Storm Trooper) leader Ernst Röhm and other Brownshirt leaders competing for power within the NAZI party. A similar purge by American “Long Knives” may well be in the planning stages as globalists who control both major political parties are intent upon purging Donald Trump from power. While the Powers That Be (PTB) chafe at Trump slowing down their globalist agenda, it’s nothing compared to what Trump did this week to enrage them. In a move that may seal his fate, Trump moved to shut down covert CIA operations funding and arming Syrian rebels. One of the reasons, among others, that John F. Kennedy was marked for assassination was his vow to kill CIA black operations after a member of the Deep State (McGeorge Bundy) cancelled air support for the Bay of Pigs operation, which Kennedy specifically authorized. In like manner, Trump may have just crossed a red line in Syria that may endanger his legacy or life.
The Washington Post first broke the story about Trump cutting off covert funding. Here’s a commentary by the Business Insider:
President Donald Trump will end the CIA program authorized by his predecessor in 2013 to arm Syrian rebel groups against forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
The decision comes just more than three months after Trump ordered the US Navy to launch dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield that Assad had used to carry out a chemical attack that killed dozens of civilians.
But the termination of the often-troubled program reflects what is currently one of his biggest priorities: improving relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "This is a momentous decision," a current official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a covert program, told The Post. "Putin won in Syria."
Of course, we’d expect the establishment to couch this in terms of the Trump-Russia false conspiracy. Whether Trump found out about this covert line of supply from Russia or from someone within his administration, we may never know. But he did and had the courage to cut it off. Whether or not that actually happens is doubtful in my opinion. The Deep State has ways of continuing their operations even when the president orders it stopped.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, known for his hawkish views toward Russia, tweeted that "if true – and I hope it’s not – it would be a complete capitulation to Assad, Russia, and Iran."
Leave it to the likes of Graham and McCain, both globalists masquerading as conservative Republicans, to parrot the official outrage. I mention McCain only because he would be at the forefront had he not been sidelined with the surprise diagnosis of brain cancer (more on that later).
The Pentagon is still backing Syrian rebels fighting ISIS. But Trump decided to end the CIA program more than a month ago after consulting with national security adviser H.R. McMaster and CIA Director Mike Pompeo, US officials told The Post. The decision was made ahead of Trump's meeting with Putin at the G-20 summit in Germany on July 7, where they spoke for more than two hours. They spoke again for nearly an hour at a private dinner that evening.
Trump and Putin agreed during the meeting on a new ceasefire plan for Syria, which has entered its sixth year of civil war. But the ceasefire was not predicated on the US ending the CIA program, officials said.
The foregoing should put to rest the claim that Putin got Trump to take this action.
Ned Price, a former CIA officer who served as senior director of the National Security Council under President Barack Obama, declined to comment on any purportedly covert intelligence programs. But he said the Post report "raises serious questions about what the administration may have furtively given away in return" for the "limited and fragile ceasefire" achieved with Putin in southern Syria.
"It also fits a broader pattern," Price said. 'The White House appears content to kowtow to Moscow on any number of fronts — including in Syria, where, with each passing day, this administration appears to harbor fewer objections to the continued rule of Bashar al-Assad, a murderous dictator who continues to slaughter his own people."
This kind of lying by US officials indicates just how pervasive the Deep State controls all forms of government propaganda and response. The mere fact that US backed rebels have been responsible for every chemical attack in Syria indicates how hypocritical the US attack on Assad is. And how did those chemical weapons get into the hands of Syrian rebels? By this very CIA covert supply line that Trump is attempting to close down.
That is precisely why this covert CIA pipeline is so crucial, even while the overt Pentagon pipeline to Syria rebels remains open. The Department of Defense pipeline has public records and uses regular service personnel to procure and deliver conventional weapons and supplies to various rebel groups in Syria. So they can’t get caught shipping chemical weapons to the rebels in this manner.
In contrast, the covert CIA pipeline has been able to ship chemical and anti-aircraft weapons (almost always via cooperating partners in Saudi Arabia, Israel and Turkey) despite US denials of such programs.
But that’s not all. The most important part of this covert pipeline to Syria is that it funds and arms ISIS. “Sundance” from theconservativetreehouse.com continues to do the best research in this area of US support for ISIS:
Various news organizations frame the issue as cancelling the program to “arm the moderate opposition to Bashir Assad”. However, those news reports are entirely false.
We know the Obama administration was arming ISIS as part of the larger Syria strategy because Secretary of State John Kerry went on record admitting the Obama Syrian strategy was actually to arm ISIS and extremist Islamic groups (al-Nusra) against Assad.
We also know Secretary Kerry was being truthful in that media-hidden, albeit recorded, admission because CTH specifically tracked and investigated the CIA weapons shipments as an accidental outcome of the finalized Benghazi Briefing material in 2013/2014.
The Washington Post might be claiming today that President Trump is discontinuing a covert CIA plan that armed “moderates”. But we know, if Trump is actually canceling this program, the actual recipients of the covert weapons plan were ISIS, al-Qaeda and al-Nusra in Syria – By their own damned admissions.
There simply is no doubt of that truth. The Washington Post is lying, and despite their earnest efforts we can actually prove their framework is a substantive and factual falsehood. Here’s some of the proof, including Kerry’s recorded admission:
* In August of 2014 President Obama (wearing a tan business suit) gave a press conference where he stated he “did not have a strategy” against ISIS.
* Two months later, in October of 2014, Josh Earnest gave a press conference where he stated: “Our ISIS strategy is dependent on something that does not yet exist”
However, on September 30th 2016 the New York Times quietly released a leaked audio recording of Secretary John Kerry meeting with multiple factions associated within Syria.
When you listen to the audio recording it becomes immediately obvious what was going on when both of those 2014 statements were made by the White House. In addition, you discover why this jaw-dropping 2016 leak/story was buried by the U.S. media and how it connects to over 5 years of perplexing U.S. mid-east policy.
This evidence within this single story would/should forever remove any credibility toward the U.S. foreign policy under President Obama. It also destroys the credibility of a large number of well known republicans. What the recording reveals is substantive:
* First, only regime change, the removal of Bashir Assad, in Syria was the goal for President Obama. This is admitted and outlined by Secretary John Kerry.
* Secondly, in order to accomplish this primary goal, the White House was willing to watch the rise of ISIS by placing their bet that ISIS’s success would force Syrian President Bashir Assad to acquiesce toward Obama’s terms and step down.
* Thirdly, in order to facilitate the two objectives, Obama and Kerry intentionally gave arms to ISIS and even, arguably, attacked a Syrian government military convoy to stop a strategic attack upon the Islamic extremists killing 80 Syrian soldiers.
Against the backdrop of this recording we can reconcile so many historic issues. We already know a Second Presidential Finding Memo authorizing additional CIA covert action in 2012, this time in Syria. However, unlike the 2011 Libyan operation we did not know the operational name of the second action in 2012 Syria.
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, U.S. sources familiar with the matter said.
Obama’s order, approved earlier this year and known as an intelligence “finding,” broadly permits the CIA and other U.S. agencies to provide support that could help the rebels oust Assad.
The US always hides covert support behind broad “findings” that establish the general need to support some group. Hidden within that support are directed arms for the real terrorists. Trump is now trying to stop this support, though it’s unlikely to happen due to the many secret ways in which covert operations can bypass the president.
The first means of trying to get Donald Trump out of office is to use the impeachment process—which Democrats are trying, weak as it is.
It’s no secret that a group of Democrats and even some leftist Republicans have been trying to invent articles of impeachment based on flimsy “obstruction of justice” charges. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) formally introduced articles of impeachment on 12 July accusing President Trump of obstructing justice during the federal investigation of Russia’s 2016 election interference.
Sherman is arguing that Trump fired James Comey as FBI director for political reasons that amount to "high crimes and misdemeanors." Of course, this entire charade depends upon proving that Trump's campaign colluded with the Russian government in order to swing the election to Trump, which won’t ever happen, for lack of evidence.
Starting on Thursday, the Democrats are trying to make the case of “obstruction of justice”—first based upon the firing of James Comey and now on Trump’s criticism of special prosecutor Robert Mueller wanting to expanding his Russian interference investigation into Trump’s personal finances. The media and the Democrats are improperly labeling Trump’s criticism of the scope of the investigation as “obstruction,” but that’s not true.
Obstruction is to use the power of the president to threaten an independent prosecutor or to take active steps to hide relevant evidence, but public criticism of the special prosecutor is NOT obstruction. The media and their legal experts inferring that Trump’s public attacks on Mueller constitute obstruction shows just how desperate they are to impeach Trump.
In any case, it’s highly unlikely that a Republican controlled House of Representatives would pass on such articles, which must then be sent over to the Republican controlled Senate for prosecution, but that’s clearly the direction the PTB are headed, for now.
The unlikely nature of the impeachment attack opens yet more dangerous possibilities. This week, a rumor of an actual threat to Donald Trump’s life emerged as communicated to Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne by a “senior member of Congress of Capitol Hill,” who said certain people were going to “remove Trump suddenly from office – and there’s nothing that can be done to stop it.”
The Reverend Dr. leads a revival-style mega-church in Tampa, Florida which doesn’t help his credibility in my view—but I don’t think he’s lying about the actual conversation that led up to his hyping to his congregation the religious virtues of Donald Trump as a populist. Here’s the link from DC Whispers who also thinks it’s worth considering.
Knowing how ruthless these globalists can be, after killing thousands to create war and conflict (Pearl Harbor and 9/11), and after having assassinated JFK, RFK, MLK, an Arch Duke and many other lesser figures, in order to silence whistleblowers or create martyrs, I think they certainly have contingency plans for assassination.
But they are also very reluctant to use them because political assassinations are always messy and leave telltale signs of conspiracy—which must also be covered up after the fact. The JFK assassination and 9/11 have bred more conspiracy believers than any other crime in history. Because of that, manipulation of the target leader is always the first method of choice, which we are witnessing right now.
In addition, we are witnessing an unprecedented onslaught against a sitting president never before seen in America. All pretenses to journalistic neutrality have disappeared as the nation’s Left/liberal newspapers openly attack the president on a daily basis.
The NSA part of the Deep State also continues to feed the Washington Post and the NY Times damaging leaks from within the Trump administration, such as the recent purloined emails between Donald Trump jr and Rob Goldstone, which renewed charges of Russian meddling. There are also a cadre of Democratic holdovers within the White House that meet weekly to gather gossip to pass on to mainstream news outlets.
I think the object is to keep Donald Trump so off balance and on the defensive that he doesn’t have time to make his changes. We haven’t seen a let up in the onslaught against Trump since the dramatic election, and I don’t think we will until he is removed from office.
Meanwhile, the Deep State continues to shift their cadres of supporters to form new organizations to manipulate Trump toward the neoconservative side of globalism. Concurrently, we are new seeing the return of the neoconservatives to their Leftist-Democrat roots. Ever since the George Bush years, they have targeted Republicans only, knowing that knee-jerk patriotism would sucker a lot of conservatives into supporting wars of intervention. This new switch back to the Democrats is analyzed by Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept:
"One of the most under-discussed yet consequential changes in the American political landscape is the reunion between the Democratic Party and the country’s most extreme and discredited neocons. While the rise of Donald Trump, whom neocons loathe, has accelerated this realignment, it began long before the ascension of Trump and is driven by far more common beliefs than contempt for the current president.
A newly formed and, by all appearances, well-funded national security advocacy group, devoted to more hawkish U.S. policies toward Russia and other adversaries, provides the most vivid evidence yet of this alliance. Calling itself the Alliance for Securing Democracy, the group describes itself as “a bipartisan, transatlantic initiative” that “will develop comprehensive strategies to defend against, deter, and raise the costs on Russian and other state actors’ efforts to undermine democracy and democratic institutions,” and also “will work to publicly document and expose Vladimir Putin’s ongoing efforts to subvert democracy in the United States and Europe.”
It is, in fact, the ultimate union of mainstream Democratic foreign policy officials and the world’s most militant, and militaristic, neocons. The group is led by two longtime Washington foreign policy hands, one from the establishment Democratic wing and the other a key figure among leading GOP neocons.
The Democrat, Laura Rosenberger, served as a foreign policy adviser for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and chief of staff to two Obama national security officials. The Republican is Jamie Fly, who spent the last four years as counselor for foreign and national security affairs to one of the Senate’s most hawkish members, Marco Rubio; prior to that, he served in various capacities in the Bush Pentagon and National Security Council.
Fly’s neocon pedigree is impressive indeed. During the Obama years, he wrote dozens of articles for the Weekly Standard — some co-authored with Bill Kristol himself — attacking Obama for insufficient belligerence toward Iran and terrorists generally, pronouncing Obama “increasingly ill suited to the world he faces as president” by virtue of his supposed refusal to use military force frequently enough (Obama bombed seven predominantly Muslim countries during his time in office, including an average of 72 bombs dropped per day in 2016 alone).
The Democrats’ new partner Jamie Fly spent 2010 working in tandem with Bill Kristol urging military action — i.e., aggressive war — against Iran. In a 2010 Weekly Standard article co-written with Kristol, Fly argued that “the key to changing [Iran’s thinking about its nuclear program] is a serious debate about the military option,” adding: “It’s time for Congress to seriously explore an Authorization of Military Force to halt Iran’s nuclear program.”
This seems to indicate that we will see a renewed push to attack Iran, and it most likely will start in Syria where Iran is backing pro-Assad forces that will eventually clash with US-backed rebels.
When it comes to this new group, the alliance of Democrats with the most extreme neocon elements is visible beyond the group’s staff leadership. Its board of advisers is composed of both leading Democratic foreign policy experts, along with the nation’s most extremist neocons.
Thus, alongside Jake Sullivan (national security adviser to Joe Biden and the Clinton campaign), Mike Morrell (Obama’s acting CIA director) and Mike McFaul (Obama’s ambassador to Russia) sit leading neocons such as Mike Chertoff (Bush’s homeland security secretary), Mike Rogers (the far-right, supremely hawkish former congressman who now hosts a right-wing radio show); and Bill Kristol himself.