Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
“It is becoming more obvious with each passing day that the men and the movement that broke Lyndon Johnson’s authority in 1968 are out to break Richard Nixon,” wrote David Broder on Oct. 8, 1969.
“The likelihood is great that they will succeed again.”
A columnist for The Washington Post, Broder was no fan of Nixon.
His prediction, however, proved wrong. Nixon, with his “Silent Majority” address rallied the nation and rocked the establishment. He went on to win a 49-state victory in 1972, after which his stumbles opened the door to the establishment’s revenge.
Yet, Broder’s analysis was spot on. And, today, another deep state conspiracy, to break another presidency, is underway.
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Consider. To cut through the Russophobia rampant here, Trump decided to make a direct phone call to Vladimir Putin. And in that call, Trump, like Angela Merkel, congratulated Putin on his re-election victory.
Instantly, the briefing paper for the president’s call was leaked to the Post. In bold letters it read, “DO NOT CONGRATULATE.”
Whereupon, the Beltway went ballistic.
How could Trump congratulate Putin, whose election was a sham? Why did he not charge Putin with the Salisbury poisoning? Why did Trump not denounce Putin for interfering with “our democracy”?
Amazing. A disloyal White House staffer betrays his trust and leaks a confidential paper to sabotage the foreign policy of a duly elected president, and he is celebrated in this capital city.
If you wish to see the deep state at work, this is it: anti-Trump journalists using First Amendment immunities to collude with and cover up the identities of bureaucratic snakes out to damage or destroy a president they despise. No wonder democracy is a declining stock worldwide.
And, yes, they give out Pulitzers for criminal collusion like this.
The New York Times got a Pulitzer and the Post got a Hollywood movie starring Meryl Streep, for publishing stolen secret papers from the Pentagon of JFK and LBJ — to sabotage the Vietnam War policy of Richard Nixon.
Why? Because the hated Nixon was succeeding in extricating us with honor from a war that the presidents for whom the Times and Post hauled water could not win or end.
Not only have journalists given up any pretense of neutrality in this campaign to bring down the president, ex-national security officers of the highest rank are starting to sound like resisters.
Ex-CIA Director John Brennan openly speculated Tuesday that the president may have been compromised by Moscow and become an asset of the Kremlin.
“I think he’s afraid of the president of Russia,” Brennan said of Trump and Putin. “The Russians, I think, have had long experience with Mr. Trump and may have things they could expose.”
If Brennan has evidence Trump is compromised, he should relay it to Robert Mueller. If he does not, this is speculation of an especially ugly variety for someone once entrusted with America’s highest secrets.
What is going on in this city is an American version of the “color revolutions” we have employed to dump over governments in places like Georgia and Ukraine.
Goal: Break Trump’s presidency, remove him, discredit his election as contaminated by Kremlin collusion, upend the democratic verdict of 2016, and ash-can Trump’s agenda of populist conservatism. Then, return America to the open borders, free trade, democracy-crusading Bushite globalism beloved by our Beltway elites.
Trump, in a way, is the indispensable man of the populist right.
In the 2016 primaries, no other Republican candidate shared his determination to secure the border, bring back manufacturing or end the endless wars in the Middle East that have so bled and bankrupted our nation.
Whether the Assads rule in Damascus, the Chinese fortify Scarborough Shoal, or the Taliban return to Kabul are not existential threats.
But if the borders of our country are not secured, as Reagan warned, in a generation, America will not even be a country.
Trump seems now to recognize that the special counsel’s office of Robert Mueller, which this city sees as the instrument of its deliverance, is a mortal threat to his presidency.
Mueller’s team wishes to do to Trump what Archibald Cox’s team sought to do to Nixon: Drive him out of office or set him up for the kill by a Democratic Congress in 2019.
Trump appears to recognize that the struggle with Mueller is now a political struggle — to the death.
Hence Trump’s hiring of Joe diGenova and the departure of John Dowd from his legal team. In the elegant phrase of Michael Corleone, diGenova is a wartime consigliere.
He believes that Trump is the target of a conspiracy, where Jim Comey’s FBI put in the fix to prevent Hillary’s prosecution, and then fabricated a crime of collusion with Russia to take down the new president the American people had elected.
The Trump White House is behaving as if it were the prospective target of a coup d’etat. And it is not wrong to think so.
Great column, Pat. I think the world’s going to figure this out shortly.
If he (Trump ) doesn’t do what he promised with cutting immigration ( both legal and illegal ) then he won’t have to worry about the deep state .Looks like he will vote for 1.3 trillion dollar budget that no one has read or could ever hope of reading. This cannot be good for most of us.
Among other things, the bill allows only spending on bollard fencing and none for anything that would qualify as a wall.
Trump will sign it and can’t be accused of anything other than changing his mind about it as I learned from recent posts.
But some purists will claim he was lying about a wall as he readily abandons the idea in favor of more of what we have now.
It also funds planned parenthood, gun control, illegal immigrants, and all sorts of other things that the Left wants and little other than increased defense spending that most of the right wants.
That’s what you get from Congressional Republicans and if Trump doesn’t veto it from Trump as well (remember, there is no lying involved, just a change of mind. Politicians don’t lie they just change their mind.).
And exactly what are you doing to help Trump out troll? Absolutely nothing!!! Go do something to stop thus injustice. Seek out Mueller and challenge hum to a dule. That is the least you could do other than sit on your fat honky and blather.
I would have never thought a year ago, when I thought that anyone who was anti-Trump was an idiot, that it will be flipped completely, and now anybody who supports the warmonger is a complete idiot.
I’m still glad I voted for him. But quite the devastation to realize how strong the deep state is.
You are talking out of your ass. Warmonger? Looking at the quality of your work makes me realize $8 an hour doesn’t buy much in the troll department. Can’t they get a bot?
John Bolton
“[Russian election meddling was]a casus belli, a true act of war, and one Washington will never tolerate,”
“For Trump, it should be a highly salutary lesson about the character of Russia’s leadership to watch Putin lie to him.”
“And it should be a fire-bell-in-the-night warning about the value Moscow places on honesty, whether regarding election interference, nuclear proliferation, arms control or the Middle East: negotiate with today’s Russia at your peril.”
“I think in order to focus Putin’s thinking, we need to do things that cause him pain…”
Okay, you may be right – he’s not a warmonger – just a complete moron that is turning the swamp into a cesspool.
Bolton is a warmonger and he’s always been wrong in his advice. This man’s needle is stuck in the war grove. Yet, Trump hired him. I’m pretty fed up, especially over this omnibus bill passed full of gun legislation. Based on responses I’ve seen all over the Internet, Trump is losing his base over this.
When you can’t attack the message, attack the messenger?
https://fitzinfo.wordpress.com/2018/03/22/trumps-presidential-persona-is-based-on-alex-jones/
hmmmm
Shuffle the cards, er, the Cabinet.
One might consider this as shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. It is a serious concern.
Clarity seeps with the removal of the top legal in Dowd and the addition of Bolton.
Dowd to get the Mueller business done.
Bolton for a war hawk.
It’s still great to wake up every morning knowing that Felonia von Pantsuit is not POTUS.
That said, what are the pro-Trump people, myself included, here still fighting for? I can only identify two things – 2A and better trade deals. Buchanan knows surrender when he sees it.
Meanwhile, the budget last night was a fricking travesty. Neocon Zionists are in charge of the WH and every Cabinet position. Pompeo and the new CIA lady would hook our testicles up to a car battery while reading our e-mails. But unlike John Kerry, Pompeo is very smart. With him, Bolton and Haspel stirring the pot, they will start 3 new wars before the next presidential election.
I think it’s pretty clear Trump has surrendered to the Deep State. He has put the Neocons in charge and they have allowed him to bluster at China a little, which the Neocons would prefer he do anyway. The game is over.
Who here is motivated to go vote for their GOP Congress-critter this Fall, based on what you’ve seen so far? Personally, when I voted for Trump I explicitly thought I was avoiding Bolton and Pompeo. Now I’ve got both of them and a budget deficit that would choke a horse. I’m sure I will get hate for this post. But why lie to ourselves? Embrace the disappointment.
Omnibus, discouraged patriots, rumors of war, prospects of peace, economic bubbles, political intrigue, retiring Republicans, and blue waves. Is it all just a dream? Or is air being bled from the lines before the big stop?
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The IG’s report cometh. Round and round it goes; how it ends, nobody knows. Because, transition.
That doesn’t make up for gun legislation Trump just signed. Where was the veto of a bill nobody read? That, along with the funding of Planned Parenthood in this bill,and no wall, only a little fence, seems to be what has the Internet ablaze and people turning on Trump. That’s what I’m seeing. Yes, there are few still supporting him no matter what, but the majority are turning against him.
Great question about individual Republican Congress-critters. Mine receives 96% of his campaign contributions from outside the district. He voted for this Omnibus Appropriations Act. He has routinely supported every expansion of visa monkeys in a district where the average wage is $700 week and where school budgets are consumed by 40%-50% illegal alien enrollees. I’ve written him asking for any distinguishing factors between his actions and those of any Democrat. While I’m loathe to acknowledge defeat and affirmatively vote for a Democrat, I fail to see any difference.
Something I’ve always advocated is limiting any political campaign donation (for issues as well as politicians) to those who are actually able to cast a vote in the relevant election (if it isn’t on your ballot for your vote, no contribution to it).
That would eliminate most of the outside and special interest control of our representatives and make them actual representatives of their constituents instead of of those from other places who have the money to buy and own them instead.
My version of campaign finance reform FWIW, which probably isn’t much in the system we have now.
Alecto, that’s why I don’t bother contacting Congress-critters or even voting anymore. They don’t care what we think. They cater to the lobbyists and corporations and then rig the elections. Why bother?
Bolton is an idiot and a warmonger. I can only hope that he’s being put there to 1) stop the leaks and 2) pacify the neocons – without actually taking his advice.
This omnibus spending bill is much worse. Spending out of control and only $1.6 billion to repair 33 miles of fencing. If he can’t ramrod his Wall funding through now how’s he going to do it I if he loses the House? He should veto that piece of shit bill and shut down the government until he gets $25 billion (and all the enabling legislation) he needs for the Wall. Apparently he doesn’t have the fucking balls to shut down the government – and that’s the only way he can get what at least half of his own party doesn’t want to give him.
My choice seems to be never voting again or voting straight democrat to hasten our demise.
I agree. It isn’t the money (but it is). It’s the thought that none of Trump’s priorities are reflected in the bill? What is, then, the impetus for signing it? I have tried, tried in vain and against hope to support him, but if he can’t comprehend the impact, the message inherent in betraying EVERY TAXPAYER IN AMERICA by signing this, he DESERVES IMPEACHMENT. Or rather, his lard-assed EGO does.
Iska….I had read that both Dem’s and Rep’s had worked together to draft the Bill (forget if this was the House or Senate version); when they showed the results, only 1 Dem voted ‘Yes’.
I agree, it is as shit bill meant to screw Trump. He should reject it for not funding the wall.
Among many other reasons.
I said it in March 2017 … when the ‘budget’ was set to expire and true shutdown was imminent; that was Trump’s one and only chance to maintain the initiative (if he actually ever wanted to which isn’t at all clear). Instead he ‘blinked’ and joined in on the signing Continuing Resolution train wreck we’ve had for years … with that act, he showed those sought to control him indirectly that he would not go that far – close down much of the government and initiate a full blown recession/depression to “get the country back.” Threat or no (I don’t know), he wouldn’t do it and showed he was willing to be bought.
My prediction is that Trump will cut a deal with little rocket man and avert war with the Norks. I don’t believe the Jews really give a fuck about Korea. What they care about is their own neighborhood.
While I still believe war with Russia is a real possibility unless we stop trashing Assad and get the fuck out of Syria the next war will be with Iran. Unless Trump is a lot dumber than he appears he will restrain Bolton until his re-election to begin it. Of course it will be a complete disaster. I think it will be such a disaster that China and Russia won’t even bother to get involved, they will just sit back and laugh
as sands of the bottom of the Persian Gulf become the new home of the US 5th fleet. After that all bets are off.
Zara….hard to go to war (edit: WITH IRAN) without taking over Syria; US now has about 25 military bases in Syria and building a new one at Eastern Syria near oil fields (east of Euphrates River). This also puts assets closer to Iran.
Iran and Russia would see this as a danger, which is also why Russia said they would eliminate assets (air, land, sea) that attack Syria where Russian troops are located (Russia moved their troops to most of valuable assets worth attacking by US).
i’m sticking w/trump–
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those of you who hate bolton should read this about mcmaster–
for a decade b4 becoming trump’s nsa chief,he moonlighted for a thinktank funded by russia,china,britain & other countries,all while on active duty–
short article from the dailycaller.com
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/22/mcmaster-think-tank-iiss/?utm_medium=email
That makes no difference. I couldn’t stand McMaster either. He’s part of the swamp, too. Neither are worth a shit.
How about getting somebody that will work for peace for a change? That’s what the majority of people want. To hell with the Military-Industrial Complex.
My, what a difference a tweet makes! At about 8am CT, Trump tweeted that he may VETO the spending bill. Most previous posts may have to be updated. FWIW, I think rejecting the bill is a good idea, I remember complaining how the democratic Obamacare bill was dropped and voted on with little time to look at it and the spending bill was just dropped with also very little time to look at and Deja vu, we are doing it again, except this time its from the other side of the aisle. Trump may be just threatening, but it may be he is holding out until he gets more of what he wants before he signs.
Right now, it will be fun to watch Pelosi and Schumer frown, after dancing with joy at how they “won” this round of negotiations.
Bolton? He is not the president and Trump is a strong leader, so his war hawk tendencies will not be as much a concern as they would have been if he was under, say, Jimmy Carter. That being said, I’ve observed Mr. Bolton is one tough hombre and the perfect compliment to Trump as he continues forward with MAGA.
I think Iska is right. The USA passed the point of no return about 10 trillion dollars ago. Hang on tight. It’s gonna get rough.
What do you have to do to get a government shut down around here?
“What do you have to do to get a government shut down around here?”
Civil war 2
All great information folks…but what does Q have to say? What are the Anon asswipes saying? What’s Q’s latest drop?
I just dropped a sashweight from the burrito and fish tacos I ate for lunch. I took a picture of it. If I post it on 4chan will the Anons be able to decipher it?
Where are the 476 trillion indictments heading? Are Podesta and McCain getting sunburn in Gitmo?
You dumb fucks that fell for the Q hoax. Wheres Praying Medic?
This is fun.
Trump intercepted the ball at the endzone while the other team was fucking around not really willing to make an easy touchdown because they wanted to run out the clock with a score of zero to zero.
Now the fucker is running downfield with no defenders to oppose him and the assholes are hot on his ass. Oops, now it appears he’s running the wrong way.