Part II- Trump's Really Good People- Nazis, Secessionists, Separatists, Militias and Boogaloos-- Russia's Fifth Column to Disrupt the Election
Part II – The Strategic Context-- (written and released on August 13, 2020)
The Introduction to this series (Part I) was written before several significant events. We have since witnessed the deployment of heavily armed federal law enforcement special units to American cities (such as Portland,OR) against unarmed citizens exercising their right to First Amendment activity. We have also heard threats by Trump to delay the election, and as well, to attempt to void the result if he loses. We have seen him override Congress and nullify their Constitutional responsibility to appropriate money. by ordering his GOP underlings in the Senate to stall and obstruct a COVID relief bill. Instead, he chose to issue executive orders asserting presidential power over the allocation of funds, including a suspension of the payroll tax, which is intended to destroy Social Security. By his own admission in a recent interview, his conduct on the COVID Relief Bill was primarily designed to commit election fraud by bankrupting the Post Office in the hope of disrupting mail-in voting, all in the name of preventing fraud against his vote, of course.
Each of these actions have been done through issuance of executive orders. These actions conform to my warnings from last year, particularly in the aftermath of the failed Impeachment, when I specifically stated that in the absence of significant remaining Constitutional checks, Trump would act as a dictator and govern through executive orders. He is using the emergency powers he assumed in the name of fighting COVID19 exactly as I said he would, paralleling Adolf Hitler’s plot to end German democracy through the manufactured state of emergency after the Reichstag Fire, and the Enabling Act decrees.
These emergency powers were later broadened to allow the president to include the use of force by federal law enforcement to protect national monuments, and not long after, to override state and local law enforcement to fight local crime, but only in “Democrat Cities”. These actions, rubber stamped by Attorney General Barr and the GOP controlled Senate, all occurred in the aftermath of the mass demonstrations and rioting resulting from the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota. It has been documented that the violence and looting in Minnesota was started by a Nazi Biker who was a known provocateur, sent in under cover as a member of the virtually non-existent Antifa, to create an explosive incident, a pattern which was frequently repeated around the Country. Predictably, Trump called upon his “2nd Amendment” activists around the country to confront the “Antifa” demonstrators, setting into motion gangs of vigilantes who escalated the tensions and fueled the conflict further. His paranoia even led him to brand an unarmed 70 year old peace activist as Antifa, in order to defend the Buffalo Police for their brutal and nearly fatal unprovoked assault on this person.
In this context, on June 2, 2020, Trump reacted as a terrified, paranoid individual would be expected to in response to demonstrations at the White House. He fled underground to his bunker and screamed at his Defense Secretary to implement the 1807 Insurrection Act. This would authorize him and Barr to override Posse Comitatus and use the military domestically against his own civilians. He had demanded approval from Barr in advance. However, opposition from Secretary Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Milley negated that order. Trump later stated he is keeping that on the table as a future option. He has made no secret of his intention to fire Esper in the near term, because he has been more independent than others in the White House, who are where they are by virtue of Trump’s purges.
These events and actions have all been documented according to a wide variety of public sources. I submit that these are part of a dry run, in the lead up to the election, in which Trump is pushing the envelope as far as possible to expand his extra-legal and unconstitutional measures, and that he has an “end game.”
There is a Constitutional crisis in progress. You have all read and heard the various scenarios through which Trump intends to steal the election and keep power. These include, but are not limited to, a delay of the vote, contesting the vote in court, active voter suppression and fraud, sabotage of the USPS and the months long delay in counting mail-in votes, challenge of the electors, and other possible actions.
What is not being stated emphatically enough is the possibility that Trump will try to disrupt the election or seek to cancel it by unleashing an armed rebellion against the United States. He might try destroying the government if he loses by calling forth his hard core, heavily armed support base on the extreme right. This could explode as a violent resistance to an incoming Biden/Harris government. The same forces which have been identified by state and local law enforcement and US intelligence over recent years as the single most dangerous terrorist threat to the United States, meaning domestic terrorism, are the hardcore underground of militias, Neo-Nazis, Separatists, Confederate sympathizing rebels, Boogaloo and Proud Boys, Armageddonists, and bikers. This network of domestic terrorists is and has been protected and enabled by corrupt elements of US Law Enforcement, from the DHS down to the county sheriffs, government agents, and people who have been infiltrated into the US Military for combat training and networking. If there were an armed rebellion, these are the forces that would be in the forefront leading it.
On Tuesday August 11, I posted an interview by Bill Maher with Col. Larry Wilkerson, (USA, ret.), who for many years was Chief of Staff for Colin Powell, and a co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). He is currently “gaming” each of the different scenarios in which Trump will try to either steal the election or keep power by other means. Col. WIlkerson is doing this on behalf of the Biden Campaign and the Democratic leadership. His interview is very stark, and he warns precisely of the above scenario in spine chilling terms. He reminds us that of the approximately 400 million weapons owned in the United States, including active law enforcement or Military, 60% are owned by Trump supporters who are private citizens. He also sounds the alarm about the extensive infiltration of the US military by Neo-Nazis at the rank of Sgt. and below. He expressed his fear and surprise about the Democratic "gamers" naivete and denial, their shocked reactions about what Trump and his GOP enablers are willing and likely to do.
Our greatest vulnerability to this threat is the degree to which Americans are still in a state of denial regarding the lengths to which Trump and his followers will go to wreck the election. We are not adequately prepared for this. Only a handful of people are willing to speak publicly to it. There is a fear of starting a panic or provoking violence by announcing this prematurely. There is also a reluctance to let the rest of the World know that the US is so unstable. They are afraid that were this threat to be widely publicized, it would crash the global markets. There is still denial in high places, even among the strongest of Trump’s opponents, even with everything that he has done thus far. There is a high degree of disbelief that we are at this point, which is only now starting to sink in.
Additionally, there is an even more dangerous factor of denial and delusion which is blinding us to our current danger. Trump is, in actuality, seriously mentally ill. A nationwide organization of highly reputable psychiatrists headed by Dr. Bandy Lee has been sounding the alarm about this since 2016. They have written and testified in Congressional hearings on this matter and have been very outspoken over the last several years. These are experts on profiling and distance diagnosis with decades of experience, who work with our intelligence agencies in profiling world leaders for our government,.
Our biggest problem is the abject fear our people and leadership have of going into the very “dark places” of Trump’s mind to consider what he is actually capable of doing in order to keep power. There is delusion by many that our “checks and balances” are still sufficiently intact that we need not worry about such a scenario. There is a blindness to a larger strategic factor which I will outline. The reality is that many Americans will pay lip service to Trump being “Nuts, crazy, unhinged” and will have no problem throwing up a Facebook meme to that effect. But, to internalize it, and think through all of its ramifications and implications, is an area to which most will not venture,
Add to this picture the strong possibility that Trump is neurologically and cognitively impaired due to a chronic condition, a stroke, or some other event, as we have strong reason to suspect in light of video evidence over the recent period.
Take this overall picture, which is the toxic mix of a malignant personality disorder (whose origins were documented in the book by Mary Trump), exacerbated by mental illness, a possible neurological impairment, and the strategic conjuncture of world events converging on him, threatening to render him a failure and shatter his fragile identity. This combination has all the preconditions for Trump to utterly snap and do the unthinkable, which is to start a civil war.
And that brings us to our impending overarching, onerous and strategically most dangerous factor in all of this. Trump, in his deranged state, turns to and is psychologically dependent upon our leading global adversary, Vladimir Putin. Putin has Trump’s profile. Trump calls Putin weekly for advice on everything, as contrasted with his refusal to speak with Dr. Fauci for three months now. Trump’s decision to try to invoke the 1807 Act on June 2 came right after a conversation with Putin, in which he challenged Trump to not appear “weak”. His decisions to deploy federal force into Portland and elsewhere are straight from Putin’s playbook.
Not least are the tens of thousands of irregular soldiers, Trump’s private army which is out there waiting for their orders to activate. They are largely steered by Putin’s assets that have been developed, infiltrated in, and trained, over the course of a decade. These ‘soldiers’ represent Putin’s Joker card for unleashing chaos in the United States.
Based on my knowledge and decades long involvement with Russia, it is my assessment that Putin at this point would prefer Trump keeping power, but that is not his strategic goal. The objective is to throw the US into chaos. That is the actual threat which Russia poses to the 2020 election. Not hackers. Not trolls or bots. Not disinformation. He wants a river of blood. If we don’t protect and support people like Joe Biden, Barack Obama, General Milley, and Col.Wilkerson, who are aware of this threat and are trying to head it off, we are facing our end.
Part III begins the Russia dossier as to how Putin took over the “hard right” and is deploying the Neo-Nazi movement against the West.
