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Donald J. Trump is a billionaire businessman who was sworn in as US President on 20 January 2017. Elected on a promise to "drain the swamp" and "end the wars", he had his own connections to deep state actors and did everything he could to increase the military-industrial complex.
This did not stop a virtually united deep state from waging a long, intense psychological operation - Russiagate - against him, and possibly utilising Covid-19 to rig the US/2020 Presidential election. President Trump decided not to attend the inauguration of his successor, President Biden, on 20 January 2021 but said: "I wish the new administration great luck and great success."[1]
Contents
Business Career
Wikipedia writes; "He rose to public prominence after concluding a number of successful real estate deals in Manhattan and New York City, and his company now owns and develops lodging and golf courses around the world. Trump partly or completely owned several beauty pageants between 1996 and 2015. He has marketed his name to many building projects and commercial products. Trump's unsuccessful business ventures have included several casinos and hotel bankruptcies, the folding of his New Jersey Generals football team, and the now-defunct Trump University".[2]
US President
For the decisions and actions of the Trump administration, see;
- Full article: Presidency of Donald Trump
- Full article: Presidency of Donald Trump
- Trump was elected President of the United States in the 2016 US presidential election.
“Trump is the face of our collective idiocy. He is what lies behind the mask of our professed civility and rationality, a sputtering, narcissistic, bloodthirsty megalomaniac.”
Chris Hedges (June 2017) [3]
Campaign Style
After an Access Hollywood video leaked to the press describing Trump joking he could grab women's genitalia because he is a billionaire, in a shocking turn of countering media PR, Trump appeared on the day of the second debate with Hilary Clinton with 4 women accusing Bill Clinton of raping them. Which after the revelations of the Epstein Affair, could've been a form of blackmail. |
One peculiar characteristic was the usage of polarizing perspectives and bipolar usage of it in many of Trump's political remarks in his election campaign in the 2010s. He often slipped in exaggerated details in his opinions labelled as "racism" or "conspiracy theories" by "fact-checkers", sometimes voicing censored opinions drawing attention such as the death of Vince Foster, the closest an US politician has come to third rail topics to date.
An often used tactic was not mentioning how past waves of US imperialism had contributed (for example that the US is responsible for the biggest demand for the Mexican drug cartels'[4][5]).
“When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They're sending us not the right people. It's coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all over South and Latin America, and it's coming probably – probably – from the Middle East. But we don't know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don't know what's happening. And it's got to stop and it's got to stop fast.”
Donald Trump (June 2015) [6]
At times, Trump's statements (even about deep politics) were somewhat close to the mark;
“I've watched the politicians. I've dealt with them all my life. If you can't make a good deal with a politician, then there's something wrong with you. You're certainly not very good. And that's what we have representing us. They will never make America great again. They don't even have a chance. They're controlled fully — they're controlled fully by the lobbyists, by the donors, and by the special interests, fully.”
Donald Trump (June 2015) [6]
Trump attacked the Republican Party over their "Iraq/WMD" claim in his first campaign. Noted here was the fact he was the only one allowed to present a narrative against the interests of military-industrial-complex, seemingly paving a way for moderates to support him. |
And at other times, Trump his statements - especially as a popular Twitter user during the 2010s - were fascinatingly Hollywood-esque;
“Islamic terrorism is eating up large portions of the Middle East. They've become rich. I'm in competition with them. They just built a hotel in Syria. Can you believe this? They built a hotel. When I have to build a hotel, I pay interest. They don't have to pay interest, because they took the oil that, when we left Iraq, I said we should've taken”
Donald Trump (June 2015) [7]
And place enemy images in people's heads while not explaining the full story[8], or explaining how treasury bonds work and why China's currency and salary of workers is so "low" at all.[9]
“We owe China $1.3 trillion. We owe Japan more than that. So they come in, they take our jobs, they take our money, and then they loan us back the money, and we pay them in interest, and then the dollar goes up so their deal's even better. How stupid are our leaders? How stupid are these politicians to allow this to happen? How stupid are they?”
Donald Trump (June 2015) [7]
At 0:32: Ironically, Trump revealed a not so widely known fact surrounding 9-11; the agreement of the intelligence services to allow the Saudi royals, wealthy individuals and relatives of Osama Bin Laden to leave the US soon after 9-11, even after Bin Laden was already named as suspect by corporate media, which only stopped being part of the "the US Government knows more than they told the public"-conspiracy theory after the 26 hidden pages of the 9-11/Joint Congressional Inquiry were ambiguously released (with parts redacted) in 2016. |
Foreign Connections & Opinions
Russia
Russiagate was a string of ever-mutating revelations about the Russian government having taken control of the American presidency by blackmailing Donald Trump[10], starting influence campaigns on social media[11], supporting Bernie Sanders[12] and Jill Stein[13] and then by apparently not actually supporting Trump, or Trump not knowing of this support, but by "creating division in American society"[14].
Given that Donald Trump consistently has expanded the US military presence near Russia's borders, introduced heavy economic and political sanctions and quit most arms treaties, one can say that if the accusations of Trump being a Manchurian Candidate were true, the Russian government certainly hasn't got its money's worth (the official narrative mentions a $100.000 investment on Facebook social media campaigns[15]. Trump often voiced his favourable opinion of Putin before and after his presidency, even after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“I mean, he’s taking over a country for $2 worth of sanctions. I’d say that’s pretty smart.”
Donald Trump (2022) [16]
China
Trump's stance on China became increasingly hostile towards the end of his presidency, starting the US-China trade war in 2018.
“We can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing, it's the greatest theft in the history of the world”
Donald Trump (May 2016) [17]
Stance against WHO
On May 19, 2020, in a letter to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Trump wrote:
I cannot allow American taxpayer dollars to continue to finance an organization that, in its present state, is so clearly not serving America’s interests.[18]
In response Bill Gates turned to the EU for his fund raising campaign.[19] He still went along, at the very least, with the Covid-19 lockdowns and other measures that dominated the last year of his presidency.
Friend of Israel
In a 2016 speech to AIPAC, Trump denounced the United Nations as an anti-Israeli opponent of democracy. “We will totally dismantle Iran’s global terrorist network, which is big and powerful—but not powerful like us,” he promised, without further explanation. He said he would “dismantle the disastrous deal” struck by President Barack Obama to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions, then seemed to say that he would enforce it, or perhaps the sanctions regime that preceded it, “like you haven’t seen the terms of a contract enforced.”
On December 6, 2017, Trump announced the United States recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and ordered the planning of the relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Trump’s State Department recognized[20] Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, flying in the face of UN Security Council resolution 242 that the U.S. itself voted for.
The State Department also formally rejected[21] its own 1978 legal finding that Israeli West Bank “settlements” were “inconsistent with international law.”
Historical Knowledge
Imperislism
"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" Trump burst out, referring to African countries and Haiti. Instead, he suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries like Norway.[22]
The Toronto Star created a running list of the false claims Trump has made since taking office on January 20th 2017, which stood at over 350 by July 2017.[23]
Muslims
On 23 March 2016, in an interview with Piers Morgan on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Donald Trump said he had “great respect for Muslims” and had “many friends that are Muslims”. Speaking in the aftermath of the Brussels atrocities, Trump said:
- “I knew Brussels years ago, I was there probably three or four times and it was so beautiful, so secure and so safe. And now it’s an armed camp - I’m talking about before this new bombing. It’s a different world, a different place. There’s no assimilation. What’s going on there and what’s going on in other cities like Paris and others is a disgrace - an absolute disgrace - that we allow it to happen.”
He went on:
- “I have great respect for Muslims. I have many friends that are Muslims. I’m just saying that there is something with radicalised portion that is very bad and very dangerous.”
Trump signaled that efforts to destroy ISIS were not enough. Trump had previously claimed that parts of London were so radicalized that police were afraid to go on the streets, comments dismissed by the Met Police and David Cameron's government.[24]
2020 Campaign
- Full article: Transition Integrity Project
- Full article: Transition Integrity Project
To ensure a Trump loss in 2020, the deep state elements of the Democratic Party game played an advanced regime change operation. Some of the scenarios envisage Trump being escorted out of the White House on January 20, 2021, by the Secret Service, while continuing to "launch attacks against the legitimacy of the election".
Trump's campaign was greatly marked by COVID-19, BLM-inspired riots in cities and police protests criticizing their militarization.
- Trump lost the 2020 US presidential election.
Censorship
Trump has been censored by social media. He was permanently banned for Twitter and Facebook.
He joined Rumble on 26 June 2021.
Deep State or Not?
Trump has some friends in the seedier parts of the deep state environment, most notably his mentor Roy Cohn, known for his decades-long sexual blackmail activities[25] Donald is my best friend,” Cohn said in 1983, shortly after he had thrown a 37th-birthday party for Trump.[26].
On the other hand, Trump is not a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and other establishment networks, and has never attended a Bilderberg Conference, all de rigeur to vet top politicians. Also, the majority of the transatlantic establishment was strongly against him from the very start, which gave the impetus to several psychological operations to unseat him.
"Anti Establishment"
“My analysis is that Trump would not be permitted to win. Why do I say that? Because he has had every establishment off his side. Trump does not have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment. Banks, intelligence, arms companies, foreign money, etc. are all united behind Hillary Clinton. And the media as well. Media owners, and the journalists themselves.”
Julian Assange (November 2016) [27]
Note: Given Assange statements about 9-11, this should've raised questions on multiple levels.
The New York Times was in no doubt: "Donald Trump Is Elected President in Stunning Repudiation of the Establishment".[28]
While Trump's rhetoric of "draining the swamp" and promises of a new economic renaissance decidedly hit home with average Americans, his actual economic policies favored the oligarchs. He cut taxes for the rich; largely failed to bring back promised off-shore manufacturing jobs[29]; deregulated business at workers’ expense[30]; saw income inequality widen[31] under his watch; and did not support a rise in the federal minimum wage[32].
Echoing the anti-establishment theme, Labour's Jeremy Corbyn issued the following statement:
- Trump’s election is an unmistakable rejection of a political establishment and an economic system that simply isn’t working for most people. It is one that has delivered escalating inequality and stagnating or falling living standards for the majority, both in the US and Britain.[33][34]
Epstein
"I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side".[35] |
Trump told New York Magazine for a 2002 profile of Epstein "I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life." In 2019, on the day after New York authorities took Epstein into custody, Trump stated "I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you."[36]
It should be noted that Trump also remarked in the Oval office on July 9 of 2019 that Trump "(...) had a falling out with him a long time ago. I don't think I have spoken with him for 15 years. I was not a fan (...) a long time ago. I'd say maybe 15 years" even having kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago a decade ago.[37], which is strange considering he is listed in the black book of Epstein, encircled as one of the only few, with dozens of methods of contacts, ranging from Mar-a-Lago numbers, a few numbers named "spa", "car", and "direct emergency" along with 4 "h-numbers" possibly indicating house, all the way to security personnel.[38]
Epstein shared a banker from the Deutsche Bank and Citibank with Trump, Thomas Bowers, who loaned hundreds of millions of dollars to both men, and was under the scope of the FBI because of these loans but was found dead in November 2019.[39][40]
Military-Industrial Complex
- Full article: Military-industrial-congressional complex
- Full article: Military-industrial-congressional complex
Trump gave decidedly mixed messages about the MIC. While at the one hand not starting any new wars, he gave the military vastly greater budgets and positioned military equipment on the very doorsteps of Russia, China and Iran, setting the stage for a next war. In general, he continued the long-standing attempt at securing US domination over the world, both allies and declared enemies.
His attempts at brinkmanship on several occasions gave the impression of imminent wars against North Korea, Iran and others.
“Don’t kid yourself, you do have a military-industrial complex. They do like war… I said I wanted to bring our troops back home, the place went crazy. You have people here in Washington, they never want to leave. … Some day someone will explain it, but you do have a military industrial complex. They never want to leave. They always want to fight. No, I don’t want to fight.”
Donald Trump (May 2019) [17]
Note:Trump was formal Commander-in-Chief at the time
Dr. Dave Janda interviews Patrick Byrne "What Really Happened In The Oval Office"[41] |
Quotes by Donald Trump
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Donald Trump/First Presidency | “Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!"” | 6 January 2021 | Twitter, Donald Trump |
Donald Trump/First Presidency | “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!” | 6 January 2021 | Twitter, Donald Trump |
Donald Trump/First Presidency | “We can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing, it's the greatest theft in the history of the world” | May 2016 | Donald Trump |
Immigration and Customs Enforcement | “We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we’re stopping a lot of them — but we’re taking people out of the country. You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before. And because of the weak laws, they come in fast, we get them, we release them, we get them again, we bring them out. It’s crazy.” | May 2018 | White House, New York Times |
Appointments by Donald Trump
Appointee | Job | Appointed | End | Description |
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Alexander Acosta | US/Secretary of Labor | 28 April 2017 | 19 July 2019 | Resigned after the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein |
Randolph Alles | Director of the United States Secret Service | 25 April 2017 | 1 May 2019 | |
Monica Crowley | United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury | 24 July 2019 | 20 January 2021 | |
Betsy DeVos | United States Secretary of Education | 7 February 2017 | 2021 | |
Doug Fears | US/Homeland Security Advisor | 10 April 2018 | 12 July 2019 | |
Glenn Fine | Chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee | 30 March 2020 | 6 April 2020 | |
David Friedman | US/Ambassador to Israel | 29 March 2017 | 20 January 2021 | |
Katharine Gorka | Senior advisor in the Office of Policy | 2017 | 2019 | |
Neil Gorsuch | Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court | 10 April 2017 | ||
Nikki Haley | United States Ambassador/United Nations | 27 January 2017 | 31 December 2018 | |
Michael Kozak | Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs | 13 September 2019 | 20 January 2021 | |
Michael Kozak | Senior Bureau Official for Democracy Human Rights and Labor | 5 September 2017 | 12 September 2019 | |
Christopher Liddell | White House Deputy Chief of Staff | 19 March 2018 | 20 January 2021 | for Policy Coordination |
Christopher Liddell | White House Director of Strategic Initiatives | 20 January 2017 | 2018 | |
Ajit Pai | Federal Communications Commission/Chair | 23 January 2017 | 20 January 2021 | |
Sonny Perdue | United States Secretary of Agriculture | 25 April 2017 | 20 January 2021 | |
Robert Redfield | CDC/Director | 26 March 2018 | 20 January 2021 | At the time of the COVID-19 event. |
John Sullivan | US/Deputy Secretary of State | 24 May 2017 | 20 December 2019 |
Related Quotations
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Ancient Rome/Deep state | “Commodus, like a number of other late Roman emperors and like Donald Trump was incompetent and consumed by his own vanity. He commissioned innumerable statues of himself as Hercules and had little interest in governance. He used his position as head of state to make himself the star of his own ongoing public show. He fought, victoriously, as a gladiator in the arena in fixed bouts. Power for Commodus, as it is for Trump, was primarily about catering to his bottomless narcissism, hedonism and lust for wealth. He sold public offices to the ancient equivalents of Betsy DeVos and Steve Mnuchin. He orchestrated a vast kleptocracy.” | Chris Hedges | 2017 |
John Bolton | “Trump spoke with Xi Jinping by phone on June 18, ahead of 2019's Osaka G20 summit, when they would next meet. Trump began by telling Xi he missed him and then said that the most popular thing he had ever been involved with was making a trade deal with China, which would be a big plus politically. They agreed their economic teams could continue meeting. The G20 bilateral arrived, and during the usual media mayhem at the start, Trump said, "we've become friends. My trip to Beijing with my family was one of the most incredible of my life." With the press gone, Xi said this is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. He said that some (unnamed) political figures in the United States were making erroneous judgments by calling for a new cold war, this time between China and the United States. Whether Xi meant to finger the Democrats, or some of us sitting on the US side of the table, I don't know, but Trump immediately assumed Xi meant the Democrats. Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility among the Democrats. He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming US presidential election, alluding to China's economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win. He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump's exact words, but the government's prepublication review process has decided otherwise.” | John Bolton | June 2020 |
Richard Branson | “All big entrepreneurs have the stink of unpopularity around them. Whether it is through envy or sincere distaste, Donald Trump, James Goldsmith, Rupert Murdoch, Robert Maxwell and Richard Branson have all become popular figures of hate.” | Richard Branson Nick Davies | August 1990 |
Jeb Bush | “Whatever his views are this morning, they might change this afternoon, and they were different than they were last night, and they'll be different tomorrow. ... They seem to be ever, ever-changing, depending on what crowd he's in front of. Sounds like a typical politician, by the way, where you get in front of one crowd and say one thing, and then say something else to another crowd that may want to hear a different view. All the things that Donald Trump railed against, he seems to be morphing into — it's kind of disturbing. ... He doesn't believe in things, this is all a game.” | Jeb Bush | August 2016 |
George Carlin | “An interesting kind of, you know a real rat, it would be nice to see him run over by a truck. but he makes life interesting. These people make my life interesting. (...) I can’t help but marvel at the Leona Helmsleys and the Oliver North and the Donald Trumps and the Zsa Zsa Gabors and the Bess Myerson’s and all these people who managed to get themselves in these ridiculous situations. I am very entertained by the world.” | George Carlin | 1989 |
Jimmy Carter | “I think I would choose Trump, which may surprise some of you, but the reason is Trump has proven already that he's completely malleable. I don't think he has any fixed opinions that he would really go to the White House and fight for. Ted Cruz is not malleable. He has far right-wing policies, in my opinion, that would be pursued aggressively if and when he would become president.” | Jimmy Carter | February 2016 |
Deep state/2017 Popularisation | “The term ‘Deep State’ has entered established parrot journalism, where it joins ‘the one percent’, the other notion ascended from the internet ‘underground’. You can tell by the way it is now mocked in mainstream publications. I first noticed when one of those informed its readers that it lurked somewhere in the remote internet corners given over to conspiracy theory. And now, quite suddenly, there is a mini avalanche of pieces explaining for example why such a thing may exist in Turkey (where the term was first used) or Egypt, but not the United States where all manner of protections guard against it. David Remnick’s article in the New Yorker reflects considerable confusion in parrot journalism ranks about what to do with this concept that has forced itself on America’s consciousness through the combined maneuvers of state and non-state institutions intending to get rid of the new president.” | Karel van Wolferen | 4 April 2017 |
Jacob Dreizin | “After seeing the (to this day) vakk-seen promoting, 1/6 prisoner-ignoring, Ukraine-loving, Dr. Oz-endorsing, clueless joke that Trump has become, I can tell you this: MAGA is now an illusion, forget it, it failed. It’s not coming back. It’s just a cheap ticket for opportunistic “outsiders” to nail down the pissed-off vote in GOP primaries. The “we need to keep electing MAGA people, and after ten or twenty elections, we’ll finally save the country” track is RIDICULOUS. By the time of the second election, the first crop would be busy fundraising with Big Pharm and the military-industrial complex, LOL.” | Jacob Dreizin | 10 May 2022 |
Immigration and Customs Enforcement | “We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we’re stopping a lot of them — but we’re taking people out of the country. You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before. And because of the weak laws, they come in fast, we get them, we release them, we get them again, we bring them out. It’s crazy.” | Donald Trump | May 2018 |
Rupert Murdoch | “Murdoch suggested that taking a liberal approach to H-1B visas, which open America's doors to select immigrants, might be hard to square with his promises to build a wall and close the borders. But Trump seemed unconcerned, assuring Murdoch, 'We'll figure it out.' "What a fucking idiot," said Murdoch, shrugging, as he got off the phone.” | Rupert Murdoch Michael Wolff | 2018 |
Vladimir Putin | “His unpredictability is not related to him exclusively, it is also related to a very strong opposition within the country. They are stopping him from delivering almost any of his election platforms and plans. As soon as he makes a decision on migrants, a court blocks it straight-away. It happens all the time. So, it is wrong to say that his unpredictability depends only on him. No, it depends on the entire American political system.” | Vladimir Putin | July 2018 |
Bernie Sanders | “What [Donald Trump] is doing and this is his entire political strategy is to divide the American people up based on where we came...So you have a president who gives tax breaks to billionaires and wants to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. That's not what he's going to run on. You've got a president who tried to throw 32 million people off health care. He ain't gonna run on that one. You got a president who gave 83 percent of the tax benefits to the top one percent, not going to run on that one. So how do you win an election? What do you say — You see those undocumented people, they all your enemy. 'Stand with me. Hate them. Let's divide this country up.” | Bernie Sanders | June 2019 |
Charles Schumer | “"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 in response to the president-elect challenging allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
"So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this," Schumer added. "What do you think the intelligence community will do if they were motivated to," Maddow wondered. "I don’t know, but from what I am told intelligence officials are very upset with how [Trump] has treated them and talked about them," Schumer replied. "Do we think he has an agenda to try to dismantle parts of the intelligence community? I mean this form of taunting hostility," she said. "Let me tell you. Whether you’re a super liberal Democrat or a very conservative Republican, you should be against dismantling the intelligence community," Schumer noted.” | Charles Schumer | 2017 |
The Twitter Files | “After the 2016 upsets of Brexit and the election of Trump, however, the establishment soured on free speech. Both events were seen as undermining NATO, and both were blamed on foreign influence on social media—specifically Russia. The U.S. and UK governments in particular saw the need to identify and purge Russian influence operations online and set up a government–private apparatus to do so.” | Peter Svab The Epoch Times | 17 January 2023 |
Events Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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WEF/Annual Meeting/2018 | 23 January 2018 | 26 January 2018 | Switzerland | ~2200 of the super-rich meet to talk about "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World" |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting. |
Event Witnessed
Event | Location(s) | Description |
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Donald Trump/Assassination attempt in Pennsylvania | Butler Pennsylvania | An assassination attempt on Donald Trump in 2024, missing his skull by a few inches. |
Related Documents
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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Document:A Mafia Don with a Pompadour | article | 20 March 2016 | William Engdahl | There are two possible conclusions to draw about the billionaire Mafia Don: either Donald Trump didn't know - or else he was fully aware - that his business associates were involved with the US Mafia. Either way, Trump is not fit to occupy "the most powerful office on Earth." |
Document:After Mossad Targeted Soleimani, Trump Pulled the Trigger | Article | 3 January 2020 | Jefferson Morley | Donald Trump has now fulfilled the wishes of Mossad. After proclaiming his intention to end America’s “stupid endless wars,” the president has effectively declared war on the largest country in the region in solidarity with Israel, the most unpopular country in the Middle East. |
Document:American Presidents | blog post | 4 November 2020 | Craig Murray | On the US election I showed my limitations with a tweet yesterday evening predicting Joe Biden would win fairly comfortably, and Trump would concede with good grace. I was wrong. |
Document:Boris Johnson is a threat to democracy itself | Article | 18 June 2019 | Simon Wren-Lewis | We can only hope that while most Conservative members want to live in a world where there is no spoon, enough voters prefer changing the real world in ways that enhance, rather than diminish, our democracy. |
Document:British military presence near Venezuela ‘extremely concerning’ | Article | 5 February 2019 | Phil Miller | “Britain’s recent history of catastrophic military interventions should rule out any UK participation in Donald Trump’s attempts to destabilise a democratically elected government in Venezuela.” |
Document:Canada Takes A Hostage: Free Meng Wanzhou | Article | 8 December 2018 | Christopher Black | Canadians should be angry about these traitors isolating Canada from China, from Russia, from Iran and their great cultures, and condemning Canada to be nothing more than an outpost of the American empire. For traitors they are as they betray the Canadian people by serving the interests of the Americans and their war machine. Free Meng Wanzhou, for so long as she is held hostage, so are we all. |
Document:Canada sanctions 40 Venezuelans with links to political, economic crisis | Article | 22 September 2017 | Michelle Zilio | Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, MP for the Toronto district of University-Rosedale, said: "I have some Venezuelan Canadians living in my constituency and they have been really vocal … and have said our family, our friends, they need help and they're counting on Canada to speak up." |
Document:David Cameron's 'counter extremism' experts work with far-right Donald Trump sympathisers | Article | 19 December 2015 | Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed | The link between the two organisations (Henry Jackson Society and Quilliam Foundation) and Donald Trump is Frank Gaffney, who was the chief inspiration for Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the United States |
Document:Destroying Syria | Article | 23 January 2018 | Philip Giraldi | Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi says the United States has zero evidence on the Syrian conflict. Someone should remind the President that similar scenarios did not turn out very well in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. |
Document:Free Julian Assange, Mr. President | Article | 9 February 2018 | Roger Stone | The Donald Trump I know is a generous, compassionate, humane and, above all, fair man. As his steadfast, loyal, decades-long supporter, with all I have I implore him: Mr. President, FREE JULIAN ASSANGE! |
Document:How Chrystia Freeland Organised Donald Trump’s Coup in Venezuela | Article | 7 February 2019 | Eric Zuesse | That’s what Ukraine, and now Venezuela, and many other US coups and invasions, are - and have been - really about. It’s about the ‘peace’ of the graveyard, NOT any democracy, anywhere at all. |
Document:In Venezuela, White Supremacy Is a Key Driver of the Coup | Article | 7 February 2019 | Greg Palast William Camacaro | Four centuries of White Supremacy in Venezuela by those who identify their ancestors as European came to an end with the 1998 election of Hugo Chávez, who won with the overwhelming support of the Mestizo majority. This turn away from White Supremacy continues under Nicolás Maduro, Chavez’s chosen successor, who was re-elected in 2018 for a second six-year term. |
Document:Internalised Danger | blog post | 6 November 2020 | Craig Murray | America urgently needs a radical dose of social and economic reform as championed by Bernie Sanders. It needs the Green New Deal, and the world needs a real commitment in Washington to environmentalism. |
Document:Is Oil Behind Washington’s Venezuela Coup Madness | Article | 3 February 2019 | William Engdahl | Leaving aside whether or not Maduro is a saint, the decision by President Trump to back the Bolton-Pence call for a US intervention in Venezuela may prove a fatal error for the Trump presidency. |
Document:JD Vance has some weird influences | Article | 17 July 2024 | Gavin Haynes | "I think Trump is going to run again in 2024", JD Vance once said. "I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people." |
Document:John Bolton on Trump | blog post | 18 June 2020 | Mr Bolton should have come forward during President Trump's impeachment proceedings rather than save his account for a $2 million book contract | |
Document:Julian Assange is a suspected Russian intelligence asset | Article | 24 February 2020 | Susie Boniface | "If Assange was interested in avoiding extradition to the US, he'd have gone to Sweden to answer the charges that were unlikely to see a conviction, and where he had far less chance of being extradited. But if he really WERE a Russian intelligence asset... well, then it all makes sense." - except that what it really makes is nonsense. |
Document:Julian Assange makes first public statement since prison release | blog post | 1 October 2024 | Andy Worthington | "Freedom of expression and all that flows from it is at a dark crossroad. I fear that unless norm-setting institutions like PACE wake up to the gravity of the situation it will be too late. Let us all commit to doing our part to ensure that the light of freedom never dims, that the pursuit of truth will live on, and that the voices of the many are not silenced by the interests of the few." |
Document:Labour Built the Bomb | Article | 10 July 2017 | Bill Ramsay | The prompt for this short essay is not Labour's nuclear legacy: it is what took place in the UN General Assembly last Friday when the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty passed into international law. |
Document:Libya: Fine, but why Britain | article | 20 March 2011 | Brian Barder | David Cameron seemingly Gung Ho on toppling the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, while Barack Obama takes a back seat |
Document:Manchester Alleged Suicide Bomber Linked to Libya Islamic Fighting Group | Article | 24 May 2017 | 'Tony Cartalucci' | The British government is directly responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing. It had foreknowledge of LIFG’s existence and likely its activities within British territory and not only failed to act, but appears to have actively harboured this community of extremists for its own geopolitical and domestic agenda. |
Document:Meet Team Trump | Article | 12 November 2016 | James Corbett | Trump supporters: Will you rally around the party flag as a new crew of neocons and banksters and establishment insiders step into their pre-ordained roles? |
Document:Mohammed Bin Salman: The Truth Behind The Reformist Facade | blog post | 8 March 2018 | Craig Murray | Then something remarkable happened which the world mainstream media has almost entirely ignored. Despite Saudi sponsored adverts all over US media portraying named senior Qataris as terrorist sponsors, and despite strong Israeli pro-Saudi lobbying, Donald Trump suddenly called Mohammed bin Salman to heel. |
Document:Outside In: The Trump Administration’s Plan to Remake the Middle East | Article | 10 October 2018 | Ted Snider | Benjamin Netanyahu refers to his doctrine as Outside In: first you pacify the Outside and ally with the Sunni Arab states (Egypt and Saudi Arabia) outside of Israel, then, in exchange, you extract a peace plan out of them that you then impose Inside on a Palestine now devoid of allies and leave it helpless to hold out against a peace plan forced on the Palestinians by Donald Trump. |
Document:Pictures resurface showing US Secretary John Kerry and President Assad dining in Syria together | Article | 3 September 2013 | Heather Saul | John Kerry's volte-face: Syria is an essential player in bringing peace and stability to the region (2009). President Assad is a "thug" like Adolf Hitler (2013). |
Document:Rothschilds Caught Rigging The US Presidential Election | Article | 30 September 2016 | 'SatyaRaj' | Whether it's Clinton or Trump, the Rothschilds are the real winners! |
Document:Russian propaganda and the US election SHORT | analysis | 26 December 2018 | Integrity Initiative | |
Document:Seymour Hersh Says Hillary Approved Sending Libya’s Sarin to Syrian Rebels | Article | 28 April 2016 | Eric Zuesse | The commercially-controlled media won’t inform the public when a US Secretary of State, and her boss the US President, are the persons actually behind a sarin gas attack they’re blaming on a foreign leader the US aristocrats and their allied foreign aristocrats are determined to topple and replace. Is this really a democracy? |
Document:Silicon Valley’s Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy | Article | 4 August 2024 | John Naughton | Speaking to a Christian convention in Florida the other day, Donald Trump said: “Get out and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it any more. Four more years, you know what: it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote any more, my beautiful Christians.” |
Document:Speech by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on 20 August 2017 to the Syrian Diplomatic Corps | Speech | 31 August 2017 | Bashar al Assad | The US President is not the maker of policies, but the executor. Therefore, the “Deep State” in the United States does not govern in partnership with the President, but leaves him a small margin. |
Document:Speech to the European Parliament by Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of ICAN | Speech | 7 February 2018 | Beatrice Fihn | "Are you going to support the new Trump Nuclear Doctrine? Join the thinking of Russia, North Korea? Cheer on a new nuclear arms race? Or are you going to support the work for the prohibition and the elimination of nuclear weapons? You cannot do both." |
Document:Spy behind Donald Trump 'golden shower' dossier feared president had been 'compromised by foreign power' | Article | 10 January 2018 | James Law | "It's political rhetoric to call the dossier phoney. The memos are field reports of real interviews that Chris's network conducted and there's nothing phoney about it. We can argue about what's prudent and what's not, but it's not a fabrication." |
Document:The CIA/MI6 Skripal Conspiracy Exposed? | Wikispooks Page | 16 November 2024 | Kit Klarenberg | A longstanding Russia hawk who cut her Agency teeth recruiting spies in the Soviet Union in the years before its collapse, Gina Haspel twice served as the CIA’s London station chief - from 2008 to 2011, and 2014 to 2017. Sergei Skripal arrived in Britain in July 2010 via a grand spy swap during her first tenure, which was negotiated by Haspel’s longtime collaborator Daniel Hoffman, then-CIA Moscow station chief. |
Document:The Clown with the Russian Credit Card | Article | 13 October 2016 | David Scheim | In 2011, after four bankruptcies, Donald Trump's claims of billions of $ were laughed out of a court. Russian money and Mobsters filled the gap. |
Document:The Four Horsemen Gallop By | blog post | 11 April 2018 | Craig Murray | The notion that Britain will take part in military action against Syria with neither investigation of the evidence nor a parliamentary vote is worrying indeed. Without Security Council authorisation, any such action is illegal in any event. |
Document:The Trump Administration’s Syria Gas Attack Narrative Continues to Unravel | Article | 18 April 2017 | Michael Krieger | United States Government: "They Lied About Iraq; They Lied About Libya; They're Lying About Syria." |
Document:The left’s Trump card - weekly briefing | Article | 15 November 2020 | Lindsey German | The Populist Right has had a bad week. Dominic Cummings left Downing Street on Friday after his relationship with Boris Johnson, according to reports, ‘fell off a cliff’. Donald Trump may still be refusing to acknowledge his election defeat, but he is on his way out of the US presidency. The Left still has everything to play for. |
Document:There is no military solution in North Korea | Interview | 5 September 2017 | Mishal Husain | Former Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell says the United States needs to bring the international community together more effectively over North Korea |
Document:Trump Set to Recognise Israel’s Claim to Occupied Golan Heights and its Sizeable Oil Reserves | Article | 26 May 2018 | Whitney Webb | Given that Genie Energy’s contract to conduct exploratory drilling in the Golan Heights expires this year, its investors are in urgent need of a way to extract and sell the region’s oil – and a US decision on Israel’s claim to the Golan Heights could be just the answer to the company’s problems. |
Document:Trump said to deprecate Netanyahu's intention to bump off Assad | Article | 1 September 2017 | Eric Zuesse | Better wait until my fundamentalist VP is in place, Benny boy! |
Document:Trump targets Corbyn in UK election intervention | Article | 2 November 2019 | Laura Tiernan | Donald Trump’s interview shows that Mike Pompeo’s threatened “push back” is far advanced. If Trump is willing to make such anti-democratic public pronouncements against the leader of Her Majesty’s opposition, what are they discussing—and preparing—behind the scenes? |
Document:Trump, Assange, Bannon, Farage… bound together in an unholy alliance | Op-ed | 29 October 2017 | Carole Cadwalladr | (You got this? Farage visited Trump, then Assange, then Rohrabacher. Rohrabacher met Don Trump’s Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya. Then Assange. And is now trying to close the circle with Trump.) |
Document:Under Trump, the Israel lobby is a Hydra with many heads | Article | 30 May 2018 | Jonathan Cook | Since Trump took office, the Israel lobby has mobilised four other powerful lobbies: Christian evangelicals, the alt-right, the military-industrial complex and Saudi Arabia |
Document:Venezuela, Iran: Trump And The Deep State | Article | 22 May 2019 | Thierry Meyssan | Sheikh Hassan Rouhani was the primary contact with the Western powers during the Iran-Contra affair. He knows Elliott Abrams personally and put the US deep state in relation with Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who became the richest billionaire in Iran thanks to this arms traffic. |
Document:Washington Considers Military Action Against North Korea to Force Regime Change | article | 7 March 2017 | Stephen Gowans | A history of Post-WWII US military threats against North Korea leading to the latest escalation in Spring 2017, with due weight given to the North Korean perspective |
Document:Why Isn’t Everyone In Favour of Taxing Financial Speculation? | report | 19 April 2016 | Robert Reich | Bernie Sanders wants to tax stock trades at a rate of 0.5 percent (a trade of $1,000 would cost $5), and bond trades at 0.1 percent. The tax would reduce incentives for high-speed trading, insider deal-making, and short-term financial betting. Sanders’ 0.5 percent tax could thereby finance public investments that enlarge the economic pie rather than merely rearrange its slices – like tuition-free public education. |
Document:Xi Jinping says a dark shadow looms over the world after years of peace | Article | 3 September 2017 | Tom Phillips Wang Zhen | Shen Dingli, an international relations expert from Shanghai, said Sunday’s nuclear test underlined the futility of both Washington and Beijing’s policies towards North Korea: "It's only a matter of time before Donald Trump realises he has no choice but to sit down with Kim Jong-un." |
File:Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.pdf | dossier | January 2017 | Christopher Steele | A dossier of evidence purporting to demonstrate that Donald Trump and his transition team members have a history of improper contact with the Russian government and that Russian Intelligence collected substantial compromising information on Trump during his Russian business trips. |
Rating
The most talked about president in the world post 9-11. Trump has become the spokesperson for a conservative/alt-right hybrid section of a splintered US deep state that most importantly got older generations on the Internet listening to hand-picked political theories. His campaign-style is always peculiarly focused on the emotional engineering of older rural Americans that the American system (or the Pareto Principle) threw overboard after the Cold War. Up until now nobody still knows why Trump was placed there: Are they planning a civil war by rallying rural Americans to arms? Or is it just the new reality to pander to ageing populations?
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