President
Trump may be chief of state, head of government and commander in chief, but his
administration is shot through with disloyalists plotting to bring him down.
We
are approaching something of a civil war where the capital city seeks the
overthrow of the sovereign and its own restoration.
Thus
far, it is a nonviolent struggle, though street clashes between pro- and
anti-Trump forces are increasingly marked by fistfights and brawls. Police are
having difficulty keeping people apart. A few have been arrested carrying
concealed weapons.
That
the objective of this city is to bring Trump down via a deep state-media coup
is no secret. Few deny it.
Last
week, fired Director of the FBI James Comey, a successor to J. Edgar Hoover,
admitted under oath that he used a cutout to leak to The New York Times an Oval
Office conversation with the president.
Goal:
have the Times story trigger the appointment of a special prosecutor to bring
down the president.
Comey
wanted a special prosecutor to target Trump, despite his knowledge, from his own
FBI investigation, that Trump was innocent of the pervasive charge that he
colluded with the Kremlin in the hacking of the DNC.
Comey’s
deceit was designed to enlist the police powers of the state to bring down his
president. And it worked. For the special counsel named, with broad powers to
pursue Trump, is Comey’s friend and predecessor at the FBI, Robert Mueller.
As
Newt Gingrich said Sunday: “Look at who Mueller’s starting to hire. … (T)hese
are people that … look to me like they’re … setting up to go after Trump …
including people, by the way, who have been reprimanded for hiding from the
defense information into major cases. …
“This
is going to be a witch hunt.”
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Another
example. According to Daily Kos, Trump planned a swift lifting of sanctions on
Russia after inauguration and a summit meeting with Vladimir Putin to prevent a
second Cold War.
The
State Department was tasked with working out the details.
Instead,
says Daniel Fried, the coordinator for sanctions policy, he received “panicky”
calls of “Please, my God, can you stop this?”
Operatives
at State, disloyal to the president and hostile to the Russia policy on which
he had been elected, collaborated with elements in Congress to sabotage any
detente. They succeeded.
“It
would have been a win-win for Moscow,” said Tom Malinowski of State, who
boasted last week of his role in blocking a rapprochement with Russia. State
employees sabotaged one of the principal policies for which Americans had
voted, and they substituted their own.
Not
in memory have there been so many leaks to injure a president from within his
own government, and not just political leaks, but leaks of confidential,
classified and secret documents. The leaks are coming out of the supposedly
secure investigative and intelligence agencies of the U.S. government.
The
media, the beneficiaries of these leaks, are giving cover to those breaking the
law. The real criminal “collusion” in Washington is between Big Media and the
deep state, colluding to destroy a president they detest and to sink the
policies they oppose.
Yet
another example is the unfolding “unmasking” scandal.
While
all the evidence is not yet in, it appears an abnormal number of conversations
between Trump associates and Russians were intercepted by U.S. intelligence
agencies.
On
orders higher up, the conversations were transcribed, and, contrary to law, the
names of Trump associates unmasked.
Then
those transcripts, with names revealed, were spread to all 16 agencies of the
intel community at the direction of Susan Rice, and with the possible knowledge
of Barack Obama, assuring some would be leaked after Trump became president.
The
leak of Gen. Michael Flynn’s conversation with the Russian Ambassador Sergey
Kislyak, after Obama imposed sanctions on Russia for the hacking of the DNC,
may have been a product of the unmasking operation. The media hit on Flynn cost
him the National Security Council post.
Trump
has had many accomplishments since his election. Yet his enemies in the media
and their deep state allies have often made a purgatory of his presidency.
What
he and his White House need to understand is that this is not going to end,
that this is a fight to the finish, that his enemies will not relent until they
see him impeached or resigning in disgrace.
To
prevail, Trump will have to campaign across this country and wage guerrilla war
in this capital, using the legal and political weapons at his disposal to
ferret out the enemies within his own government.
Not
only is this battle essential, if Trump hopes to realize his agenda, it is
winnable. For the people sense that the Beltway elites are cynically engaged in
preserving their own privileges, positions and power.
If
the president cannot rewrite Obamacare or achieve tax reform, he should not go
around the country in 2018 wailing about Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer. They
are not the real adversaries. They are but interchangeable parts.
He
should campaign against the real enemies of America First by promising to purge
the deep state and flog its media collaborators.
Time
to burn down the Bastille.
