My position on Donald Trump
By Jon Rappoport
I've written many words about the man and what he's been
doing. To repeat a few of them, his two most important achievements are:
he's contributing, in a major way, to the ongoing destruction of the
credibility of big media; and he kept Hillary Clinton out of the White
House.
Concerning the media--- I am tremendously enthusiastic about
what Trump has done. I pop champagne corks on that one. He's provided a
public service for the ages. We would be light years beyond where we are
now, if the world of conventional journalism hadn't sold its soul, its
morality, its intelligence, and its hunger for getting to the bottom of
things so long ago. In his own improvisations and riffs, Trump has
turned the media stars on their heads looking out of their asses. He has
been merciless. He has worked acrobatic tricks worthy of a Salvador
Dali. When they thought he was here, he was there. When they thought
they had him pinned against the wall, he vanished and there was no wall.
When they thought he was done, he was starting. When they assumed they
were occupying a higher position, he was poking them in the solar plexus
of their pretensions and exposing them as rank amateurs. They go
sober-serious, he laughs. They deride and mock him, he reminds them
they're supposed to be professional. They scream and go ballistic, he
walks away. He's supposed to be in Washington, he's in New York. He's
supposed to lay out his schedule for them, he vanishes. He shouldn't
talk to a foreign leader, he talks to a foreign leader. The Washington
Post reports the Russians hacked the election, he says the CIA is making
it up.
Make no mistake about it, Globalists of every stripe and
disguise infect Washington like the plague. Their goals, reputations,
connections, and paychecks are on the line. They want to neutralize
Trump by any means possible. He has hammered the TPP, and said he'll
cancel it (Chuck Schumer has already said it's dead). He is raising the
banner of nationalism, not Globalism, and he promises to bring back jobs
to America...everything he promises in this regard is running counter
to the Rockefeller agenda of destruction.
Will he change the pernicious culture, which is devolving to
the point where "free-everything" for nothing is considered the most
illuminated version of political philosophy? He will try, but
indirectly, by opening up new levels of employment.
Will he continue to slam major media control of the
information flow? Yes. In that regard, he has already done more than any
president in modern history.
And if language is important (and it is), his communication
with the American people, in its direct colloquial style, is a distinct
departure from the polished, empty, grotesque media/politician
mechanical mind-numbing bullshit that has all but taken over the
landscape.
Will he try to curtail the divide-and-conquer "race-war"
mentality that has been heavily promoted over the last eight years?
Again, his basic strategy is: give people jobs. Renew the economy. Float
all boats.
Will Trump curtail open borders and reduce the reality of
terrorists and criminals entering the US? Will he knock aside the
unproven claims of global warmists and erase the absurd and dangerous
carbon-tax plan? Will he rebuild the fading infrastructure of this
country? Will he put Common Core out of its misery? I believe he will
make progress in all these areas. How much progress? Impossible to
predict.
Will he refuse to launch wars and covert ops of Empire? Will
he bring massive numbers of US troops stationed abroad back home, kick
the neocons out on their asses, and scale back the enormous influence of
the military-industrial complex, which, after JFK, encircled America
with its dream of a forever World Empire? This would be one of the most
important actions he could launch as president. And the effort is like
trying to turn an oil tanker around in a small space. To the degree he
rebuilds the military, he'll keep pouring $$ into the maw of the
military-industrial machine. I think it's possible that he and his
advisors see, from a purely pragmatic viewpoint, that American Empire
has reached an end-point. It is a failure. It can't go further. The
blowback on America has outflanked its lists of Empire-conquests.
However, until Trump shows he's really going to try to cancel the neocon
American Empire, and means it, I'm not making any assumptions
whatsoever.
Is Donald Trump more than a puppet in the hands of Globalists? I believe he is more than that.
Is he a mere tool who was handed the election by Globalists
who realized Hillary Clinton was too sick and deranged to stay the
course in the White House? I believe he is not a mere tool in their
hands, even if they ended up supporting him.
Does he want the job of president ONLY for the purpose of
feathering his personal nest and stroking his own ego? I don't think
that's the case now, if it ever was.
***However, unraveling his myriad business interests is
necessary, in order to discover whether his decisions as president add
to his wealth. Handing over those businesses to his family isn't a
barrier against self-aggrandizing policies. Trump is, after all, a real
estate hustler from way back.
One question in this regard: Trump appears ready to give US
corporations a tax holiday, so they can bring back huge amounts of money
they've stashed overseas, for the express purpose of buying shares of
their own companies. This practice has been a way CEOs can make their
operations look good (share prices go up) while actually producing
nothing new. As a reader of mine suggested (and I ask), will this Trump
policy of share-buying do nothing to rejuvenate those businesses, thus
creating no new jobs? And will this policy enable Trump's family to buy
shares in whatever piece of the Trump empire is publicly traded, pushing
up its stock price? This needs serious attention.
Will Trump roll back the many local incarnations of the UN's
criminal Agenda 21 blueprint for closely monitored, extensively planned
technocratic towns and cities? I'm not sure he's even aware of this
massive incursion on life in America---aside from sanctuary cities
fronted by virtue-signaling liberal snowflakes and paid operatives. He
will take steps to reduce those bastions of hope and change.
Is it possible that, when all is said and done, Trump's most
important action will have been his merciless attack on major
media---and by extension, their Globalist handlers? Yes. And by my
measure, he would then have achieved a step toward freeing information
and truth from its century-long prison of mind control. The consequences
of such a liberation could be titanic. In the long run, Trump is far
less important than the millions of people who could wake up from their
deep slumber.
I believe Trump's plan to bring employment back to America
will involve a kind of FDR/New Deal program of trillion-dollar
government contracts to rebuild the infrastructure. This is by no means
free-market America. If his plan gets through the Congress, many new
jobs will be created, yes. On the other hand, the $$ power of the
federal government will increase. It's never a great idea to give the
feds more control as the number-one employer in the nation.
I think Trump favors jobs, all jobs, and will go to extremes
to create them. This includes giving the green light to tech giants to
keep carrying out contracts to expand the Surveillance State. He'll find
ways to allow the FDA to license new drugs more quickly, thus maiming
and killing more Americans. He'll cast a blind eye toward big corporate
toxic GMOs/pesticides. He'll overlook and ignore major areas of
agricultural and industrial pollution, and permit them to expand.
Will Trump curtail the disturbing trend of militarizing local police forces across America? Doubtful.
Will he root out and eliminate the power of vicious gangs in
inner cities---gangs who are holding residents hostage in their own
communities? I believe he'll make at least a minimum effort. Even if a
president is motivated, that's a very tall order.
I assume that as a businessman he has committed criminal acts
of one kind or another. Do they rank as high as the pay-for-play
Clinton Foundation and the mass obliteration of Libya, two of Hillary
Clinton's favorite operations? No. Not even close.
Will Trump favor big-corporate cronies with the gift of government contracts? I would think so.
Will he make deals and side-deals, some of which go beyond
the literal bounds of law, to advance his presidential agenda? I would
certainly think so. What president hasn't?
Could everything I'm mentioning in this article go by the
boards, because Trump's enemies create sudden disasters for him to
manage---disasters which dwarf all other issues and programs?
Absolutely.
Could Trump himself make a fatal error that brings his house
down? For example, could his advisors convince him to make a
wide-ranging deal with Russia that includes the extradition of Edward
Snowden to stand trial in America? Maybe.
Could Trump be convinced to start a dangerous war somewhere,
perhaps in response to a planned false-flag operation designed for that
very purpose? It's possible.
Does he see that so-called liberals, who are really
socialists and Globalists and technocrats, have come very close to
taking over this country, under the banner of "share and care" and
"empathy" and "love"---behind which they hide an endless supply of venom
for those people who believe in a) working for their own rewards; b)
individualism; and c) independence of thought? I think he plans to
approach that gigantic reality with jobs and more jobs; his blanket
solution. Put America back to work. Is that a real solution? Yes, it
certainly helps. But here we are talking about the culture, and what he
can possibly say to the American people to restore a sense of
traditional values (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) that
doesn't come across as vapid sentimentality. He is a clever man. I
believe he wants to sidestep a direct confrontation with "the values
issue." Instead, he wants to cure the genuine desperation many Americans
feel because they can't find decent work. He wants to create a boom in
the domestic economy that floats all boats. I can't fault him for that.
However, a major part of the US economy has long been predicated on jobs
that either produce nothing or produce toxic outcomes. Those engines
aren't going to go away.
I believe Trump can make progress in decimating the
political-correctness disease. I believe he can help reverse the
obsession with parsing people's words and finding "hidden racist
content." And the issue where all this rubber meets the road is:
immigration.
His opponents will keep saying that anything less than wide
open borders is Hitlerian. His point is: there is a threat and a danger.
Letting in felons; letting in potential terrorists and actual
terrorists; letting in people who hate America and want everything they
can get for free in America; letting in people who take jobs from
Americans (including legal immigrants); letting in people who overburden
the economy via all the free services they can obtain---this is wrong,
this is suicide, this is crazy. It has nothing to do with racism.
If he succeeds in reducing this immigration threat---wall or
no wall---he will go a significant distance in proving that protecting
America has nothing to do with hatred.
At the same time (and I have to stress this again), he can't
decide to keep forwarding Empire abroad, thus exacerbating the desire
for revenge against America among many people who feel the destructive
force of the US military machine.
If he turns into just another jingoist, he's finished. And he should be.
He needs to talk to Ron Paul. At length.
What about draining the swamp in Washington? This is another
case of trying to turn around an oil tanker in a small space. He needs
to provide vivid examples. For starters, he should pursue, with all
speed, the gathering of specific evidence for the prosecution of Hillary
and Bill Clinton, vis-à-vis the Clinton Foundation and its nefarious
activities. No stone should be left unturned. That would set a new tone.
For people who need a heavy dose of who and what the Clintons
are, I recommend immersing yourself in everything the late Christopher
Hitchens wrote and said about them. (I'm sure Hitchens would hate a
Trump presidency.)
---If I were in charge of everything from the beginning of
the Republic in the 18th century (!), my goal would have been to make a
hundred Republics with severely limited governments on this
continent---with virtually no foreign entanglements of any kind
(political or commercial)---instead, opting for self-sufficiency as the
primary value. But that's another story for another time. Meanwhile, I
see a glint of light here, and I see risks and possibilities, and I see
that perhaps we can make steps toward ridding America of the festering
woes that have beset it: Empire, on the one hand; hideous liberalism
masking a technocratic Globalist takeover that would sink us, on the
other hand.
At no time over the past 30 years of working as a reporter
have I felt all is lost. At no time have I felt that the forces arrayed
against us are too great or too smart. At no time have I felt that all
doors are closed. I take the long view. Many things can happen to wake
people up---mainly themselves when they finally feel their way of
operating and living has become self-defeating.
Rather than opting for pure hope now, I believe Trump's feet
should be held to the fire. He made promises. Those promises are clear.
We should see authentic efforts from him in those directions.
I'm aware that some readers can only accept extreme views of
Trump or any politician. Wonderful or terrible. Messianic or hideous.
That's not what I've presented here. I've presented what I see. So be
it.
Stay tuned...
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