Although liberal detractors would refuse to acknowledge, Trump is a charismatic demagogue revered by conservative Americans and has remained a persistent thorn in the side of political adversaries. Despite losing the re-election bid, he won over 74 million popular votes, likely the largest number of votes won in the US history by a losing candidate, and could stage a comeback anytime.
The storming
of the Capitol by a frenzied mob on January 6, 2021, was clearly a conspiracy
orchestrated by the US deep state in connivance with the political
establishment to undermine Trump’s leadership of the Republican Party and
forestall his re-election bid in 2024, as he was deemed a “national security
risk” and derisively sneered at as a “toddler-in-chief” by the Pentagon’s top
brass.
Following
the riots and deaths of four unarmed Trump supporters, notably Ashli Babbitt
who was shot, he was petrified to the extent that, for once, he appeared to
concede defeat and pledged “the transition would be smooth,” though he later
recanted and went back to the characteristic defiant attitude.
It’s not too
hard to imagine that the deep state must have inserted moles inside the Trump
campaign who were feeding false information to Trump. In all likelihood, they
misled Trump that the outcome of the election was still far from settled and then-Vice
President Mike Pence could refuse to certify the electors’ confirmation of
Biden’s electoral victory.
Trump’s
obvious intention in motivating the mob was that demonstrators would stage a
protest in front of the Capitol to exert moral pressure on Veep Pence and the
electors to refuse to certify Biden’s confirmation. But the Capitol’s security
was overwhelmed by the size and fervid passion of the crowd. The chief of the
Capitol Police acknowledged on the record that his repeated requests to send
reinforcements were denied, not by the White house but by certain “other
quarters” that I would identify later in the article.
Reuters reported
following the riots [1]: “’We are going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue,’
President Donald Trump exhorted his screaming supporters before they marched on
the US Capitol last week, saying he’d go with them.
“Trump had
wanted to join the thousands of hardcore followers who assembled at Capitol
Hill on Jan. 6. He told aides in the days leading up to the rally that he
planned to accompany them to demonstrate his ire at Congress as it moved to
certify Democrat Joe Biden’s November election victory.
“But the
Secret Service kept warning him that agents could not guarantee his safety if
he went ahead, according to two people familiar with the matter. Trump relented
and instead hunkered down at the White House to watch television images of the
mob rioting he is accused of triggering.”
Clearly,
Trump’s intention wasn’t to storm the Capitol. He simply wanted his followers
to go to the Pennsylvania Avenue and register their protest outside the
Capitol. Furthermore, Trump wanted to accompany the demonstrators, but was
advised against it by the intelligence agencies. Had Trump accompanied the
protestors, they would’ve remained peaceful. But in the absence of leadership,
the frenzied mob became rudderless and stormed the building.
The obvious
beneficiaries of the ensuing melee clearly were Trump’s political adversaries,
because the Republican Party has been divided following the storming of the
Capitol. Ten Republican representatives lent their voice favoring the House
resolution for Trump’s second failed impeachment bid and he is finding it hard
to maintain his hold over the leadership of the GOP.
According to
another informative
report [2] by the Washington Post following the protests, the Pentagon top
brass restricted the authority of the commander of the D.C. National Guard to
send reinforcements ahead of the Capitol riots that could have prevented the
ensuing violence and bloodshed.
The report
notes: “The commander of the D.C. National Guard said the Pentagon restricted
his authority ahead of the riot at the U.S. Capitol, requiring higher-level
sign-off to respond that cost time as the events that day spiraled out of
control.
“Local
commanders typically have the power to take military action on their own to
save lives or prevent significant property damage in an urgent situation when
there isn’t enough time to obtain approval from headquarters.
“But Maj.
Gen. William J. Walker, the commanding general of the District of Columbia National
Guard, said the Pentagon essentially took that power and other authorities away
from him ahead of the short-lived insurrection on Jan. 6. That meant he
couldn’t immediately roll out troops when he received a panicked phone call
from the Capitol Police chief warning that rioters were about to enter the U.S.
Capitol.”
Notwithstanding,
with all the political and corporate lobbying, super-PACs and smear campaigns
in the media, the US presidential contests are never smooth-sailing affairs.
But the presidential contest in November 2020 was far more unpredictable and
tumultuous even by the American standards.
From the
bombshell New
York Times report [3] in May 2019 detailing leading Democratic presidential
contender Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s murky dealings in Ukraine to the impeachment
proceedings against Trump lasting from September 2019 through February 2020,
and then an unprecedented second impeachment trial in January last year after
Trump had already left the office.
Clearly,
both the impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump were nothing more than
show trials. The Democrats initiated the impeachment inquiry against Trump in
September 2019 as a diversionary tactic to cover up the sleazy dealings of
Hunter Biden with Burisma Holdings of Ukraine, and consequent discrediting of
leading Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden.
Although the
Democrats had a thin majority in the House of Representatives to impeach Donald
Trump, the Senate was controlled by the Republicans. Besides, convicting a
president of impeachment requires two-third majority in the Senate that the
Democrats never had. Then what was the purpose of initiating the proceedings if
not to distract public attention away from the media trial of Hunter Biden,
which was bringing damning press coverage not only to Democratic presidential
contender Joe Biden but to the Democratic Party in its entirety?
The Capitol
riots and impeachment hoaxes weren’t the only instance when the deep state flagrantly
interfered in the US politics to discredit and, at times, even brazenly
assassinate American presidents who dared to refuse to toe the national
security policy formulated by the high-command of the world’s most powerful
military force.
It’s worth
recalling that at the height of the Cold War in the sixties when the US
domestic politics was infested with the McCarthyite paranoia and communists
were persecuted all over the country, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin
of John F. Kennedy, was picked up as a scapegoat because he had visited Russia
and Cuba before the hit-job in order to put the blame for the high-profile
political assassination on the communists.
Not
surprisingly, he was silenced by Jack Ruby before he could open his mouth and
prove innocence in the courts of law. The cold-blooded murder of a pacifist and
non-interventionist American president was obviously perpetrated by a
professional sniper on the payroll of the deep state.
It was not a
coincidence that Kennedy was killed in November 1963, and months later, the
Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorized Lyndon B. Johnson to directly engage in
the Vietnam conflict in August 1964 on the basis of a false flag naval
engagement.
It’s obvious
that the American national security establishment was the only beneficiary of
the assassination of Kennedy. Most likely, the deep state turned against
Kennedy after the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis and Kennedy’s pacifist
rhetoric and conciliatory approach toward Washington’s arch-rival, the former
Soviet Union, in the backdrop of the Cold War.
Besides the
Cuban missile crisis of 1962, another reason the Kennedy administration fell
from the grace of the deep state was the botched Bay of Pigs invasion by the
CIA operatives and the Cuban exiles in April 1961 to topple the government of
Fidel Castro that JFK approved but later severely castigated the CIA for the
fiasco and sacked CIA director Allen Dulles and several employees. The Pentagon
wanted Kennedy to immediately invade Cuba following the foiled plot but he
“vacillated” and let a golden opportunity to dismantle a security threat close
to the US soil slip by.
Similarly,
JFK’s brother Robert F. Kennedy was a leading Democratic candidate for the
presidential office when he was shot dead by a Palestinian Christian Sirhan
Sirhan in June 1968. Being a pacifist himself, Bobby Kennedy opposed the US
involvement in the Vietnam War and wrote a book on the Cuban missile crisis of
1962 in which he credited his brother, JFK, for showing restraint and amicably
resolving the crisis.
As the
former attorney general of JFK, Bobby probably had good leads on the
masterminds of the JFK assassination, and wanted to avenge his brother’s
shocking murder by exposing the assassins after being elected president. This
was the only reason he, too, was silenced before he could be elected president.
Though
serving a life sentence at a California penitentiary, Bobby Kennedy’s murderer
Sirhan, now 77 years old, is a suspicious and deranged character, who
frequently backtracked on his testimonies and confession during and after the
trial, had no recollection of the murder and subsequent events, and his defense
team had pleaded for a retrial several times but the request was summarily
denied. He was due to be released on parole in August but California Governor
Gavin Newsom decided against setting him free in January.
Shortly
before the murder of Bobby Kennedy, Sirhan joined the occult organization
Ancient Mystical Order of the Rose Cross, commonly known as the Rosicrucians in
1966. In fact, Sirhan’s esoteric faith closely resembles a medieval cult
“Hashishin,” from which the English word “assassin” has derived.
The Order of
the Assassins was a Nizari Ismaili sect which lived in the mountains of Persia
and Syria between 1090 A.D. and 1275. During that time, they founded a
clandestine organization that orchestrated the assassinations of leading
figures in the Middle East that were considered enemies of their medieval “deep
state.”
The Nizari
Ismaili State was ruled by Hassan as-Sabbah from 1090 A.D. until his death in
1124. The Western world was introduced to the assassins by the works of Marco
Polo who understood the name as deriving from the eponymous narcotic hashish,
which indeed was used to put the assassins under a spell for political
assassinations.
The more recent examples of such murderous cults are the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, a cultist political organization founded by the Rajavis of Iran that relocated first to Iraq and then to Albania, or the Fidayeen or suicide bombers of Islamic jihadist organizations who are promised paradise in return for mounting terrorist attacks against adversaries.
