Can Money Buy the Presidency?


Posted originally on Aug 4, 2024 By Martin Armstrong |  

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QUESTION: Do you think Trump can win when Kamala raises far more money?

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Podesta Hillary Refuses to Concede

ANSWER: The 2016 election proves that money will not buy the presidency anymore but will buy true love. Hillary raised far more money than Trump and still lost. That was why Hillary would not even address her audience – Podesta had to do that.

Hillary it was my turn
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Trump v Hillary
Trump Wins

Harrington: DOJ, FBI, And USSS Can’t Be Anywhere Near Investigation Into Assassination Attempt


Posted originally on Rumble By Bannons War Room on: Aug 02, 2024 at 07:00 pm EST

Hammer: Josh Shapiro Is The Pick That Will Lead To Mass Chaos At DNC


Posted originally on Rumble By Bannons War Room on: Aug 02, 2024 at 07:00 pm EST

Wold: Peter Strzok Million Dollar Settlement With DOJ Actually A Payoff


Posted originally on Rumble By Bannons War Room on: Aug 02, 2024 at 07:00 pm EST

Protected: The National Security Advisor – Trump Staffing 2025


Posted originally on the CTH on August 2, 2024 | Sundance

The National Security Advisor to the President is another of the key roles within the White House that is critical to defend against the weaponized Intelligence Community.  In a second term as president, we anticipate Donald Trump will again face opposition from both parties in congress and from every created silo operation in the administrative deep state.

Accepting in advance that any appointees to the Executive Branch agencies in charge of the Intelligence System, are not going to be able to change the outcomes from within those agencies, then strategizing how to confront the rogue intelligence state becomes a more honest exercise.

The National Security Advisor is going to have to navigate an intelligence community that is fully weaponized and adverse to the interests of the White House.  Every element of the IC, the “six ways to Sunday” team, will work actively and behind the scenes to undermine the office of the President.  Any attack vectors will be fully exploited, by the IC and nothing should be considered out of bounds.

The leaders of the CIA, FBI, DIA, DHS and NSA will all lie to the President.   That’s what these institutions do now. They are part of the 4th branch of government, and they consider themselves omnipotent due to the structure of the legislative changes and oversight after 9-11.  Notice I left out the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, ODNI, I did that on purpose.

The NatSec Advisor to President Trump is going to have to work through an entirely weaponized fourth branch of government in order to survive it, let alone destroy it.  As a consequence, the Nat Sec Advisor needs to be a person with deep understanding of how the intelligence system inside Washington DC works, as well as carrying a profound distrust for them.

Any person who trusts any product created by the IC should be immediately disqualified from any position in our constitutional government.  Additionally, any person who intentionally maintains the system of pretending (Robert Mueller was honorable etc.), is automatically disqualified.

The National Security Advisor does not need to be confirmed.  The NSA person is unilaterally picked by President Trump and the entire executive branch was just reminded by SCOTUS that POTUS is in charge of everything.  This should be a big arrow in the quiver of the NatSecAdvisor.

The National Security Advisor is also the chair of the National Security Counsel (NSC).  The NSC is the working group in the White House specifically tasked with formulating analysis on events from their skills on specific issues.  The National Security Advisor does the NSC hiring and firing.  Trump needs a lot of firing assistance.

When the IC was weaponized by George W Bush and Barack Obama, the DNI fulcrum point was never used much as part of the process.  The DNI sits at the center of all intelligence information and maintains the pivot on the National Security Radar that now sweeps a full circle.

Prior to the Patriot Act the national security radar swept outward from the border looking at national security threats overseas.  Back and forth, back and forth, the radar swept looking for foreign adversaries who might target the USA.  The Patriot Act put a ball joint on the radar that now conducts surveillance sweeps in a circle, including over all Americans.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) was created to be the depository for all intelligence products.   Intelligence assembled on foreign threats (CIA) can be reviewed by domestic handlers (FBI and DHS).   When Bush created the office and later when Obama weaponized the office, they installed people who would just go along with whatever the FBI side and CIA side told them to do.  The ODNI was created to be the stupid pivot man.

However, looking at the system in totality, it is my belief that if a really smart person was in the ODNI position, they could control a great deal and even impede the activity happening both domestically (FBI/DOJ) and abroad (DoS/CIA).   I believe the DNI can crush the system, if the person really looked carefully at their power in the pivot location.

The DNI can control information.  The DNI can starve the beast.

Just like the State Dept and CIA work hand in glove to make a mess of the world, so too can the Nat Sec Advisor and DNI work together to deconstruct the domestic intelligence system.  In this process, information is the key.  The DNI can control the information, making it harder for the IC Silos to lie to the National Security Advisor.

[NOTE: control of information is also why the Director of the National Security Agency is also important.  The Director of the NSA is essentially the librarian for all data.  The librarian can control who enters the library if the right people in the Executive Branch (POTUS, Nat Sec Advisor and ODNI) give the Director of the NSA that power (executive action). More on that later.]

The National Security Advisor (hereafter *NSA) needs to be a person who has a comprehensive understanding of the Silos, and a willingness/desire to take them apart.

The *NSA needs to be exceptionally smart, profoundly insightful, intensely strategic, and with a comprehensive knowledge of the DC system.  The *NSA also needs to be stable from attack by the IC defense system.  The ideal *NSA will have an income from outside government that cannot be impacted by the schemes of the IC. The *NSA also needs to be very stable, grounded, logical and thoughtful.

This set of character traits, in combination with the knowledge needed, disqualifies almost everyone in DC.   Steve Bannon is a chatterbox who doesn’t know when to keep his mouth shut, and he has a massive ego.  Kash Patel is not strategic enough and maintains the pretending game in order to present himself as a man of value.  Peter Navarro is loyal but has some of those key judgement issues that can be exploited by the IC, and he’s not very smart.

Former Nat Sec Advisor Michael Flynn disqualified himself from further consideration by poor judgement.  Don’t forget, Flynn was an agent for a foreign government (Turkey 2016) and never told candidate Trump, thereby setting the Trump administration up for compromise.  Flynn then claims he didn’t see the risk of an FBI interview in his office and never told the White House Counsel of his intent to be interviewed by the FBI.  You cannot claim Flynn is smart and reconcile that with his stupidity.

All of the previous names might be good additions to the National Security Council, but no way should any of those names get close to a position where their failure to deliver can cause damage to the larger goal.

As a result, there is a very small field of candidates, very small, who might be able to pull off the role of National Security Advisor.  At the top of that list is probably Devin Nunes.   I qualify with a “probably” because Nunes has one massive Achilles heel in my opinion.

Devin Nunes believes in the system.  He believes in the FISC and FISA (702).  Nunes believes in large aspects of the surveillance state, and he believes in the roles and responsibilities within government as it pertains to the Intelligence Community.

Nunes believes the system is good, and that its just being operated by bad people. This is where Mr Nunes and I diverge.  However, I am willing to undermine my position and say that perhaps we need a person who believes in government.  Maybe that’s the type of character trait that can be a good benefit.  I don’t know.  Maybe I’m too jaded and just want it all stripped down to nothing.

What I do know, is that Devin Nunes would never intentionally screw stuff up, and he’d never intentionally undermine President Trump.  Nunes is super loyal, and he loves our country.

I don’t know if he would take the job of National Security Advisor (he would probably want CIA director). However, with a strategic partner in the DNI office, Devin Nunes could give us a solid chance.

RESOURCES: 

Understand The Fourth Branch

Understand The Trump Doctrine

Introduction to the 2025 Series

The Emissary – First Position.

[Next up, White House Counsel.  The gatekeeper to the office of the presidency]

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Posted originally on the CTH on August 2, 2024 | Sundance 

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This control issue is worse in 2024 for obvious reasons.

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Help with comments


Posted originally on the CTH on August 2, 2024 | Sundance 

In reading the responses about “the emissary” post, I am reminded why our nation is in this mess, and the scale of trying to get people to fathom the depth of our national problems.

If you are one of the few voices who comprehend who and what an “emissary” is, as well as how they are needed, then you will understand why any further posts of mine on the 2025 topic are going to be password protected.

Head’s up.  In order for the comment section to be of value to me, it needs to be an intellectual discussion by smart people who understand politics.  I am going to apply the password for all future threads on the 2025 topic and then I can more effectively use the blacklist banner for the govt-aligned voices who try to hijack and steer the conversation.

My thoughts and advice on the subject matter are the result of thousands and thousands of hours work, specifically categorizing every granular issue in DC and how it functions amid a corrupt and weaponized silo system.  I don’t pretend.

95% of the opinion you are reading about presidential positions, qualifications and expectations are based on people who hold pretenses, intentionally or, in many cases, accidentally, because they just don’t know better.   Some people think DC corruption is really, really bad. Trust me, it’s worse than that.

My thoughts on staffing, roles and responsibilities are from a pragmatic place of what can reasonably be expected to be achieved.  CTH has never joined this nonsensical “trusty-planner” mindset.  There is no plan.  There never was a plan.  There is one guy, Donald Trump, trying to enact policies to the benefit of the American people.  Every democrat and every republican want him to fail.

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli

On the Melania topic. Those who have been paying close attention, very close attention, will note you should not expect to see as much of Mrs Trump in the second term. By all outward appearances she’s done with American politics and keeping Barron out of that life is her priority.  Melania Trump will fulfill the role of First Lady, and she will do it better than any other, but that’s it.

I suspect in 2025 and beyond, official duties and responsibilities is where the schedule ends for First Lady Melania Trump.  She showed up to the RNC Convention and carried out that same role/responsibility.  Melania kept Baron away from the convention for the same purpose. She’ll continue the same standard after President Trump wins in November.

Donald Trump Jr loves American politics and will joyfully bring his family and children into it.  This puts Melania and DJT Jr at opposite ends of the issue.  Remember that.  DJT Jr has aspirations. Also, remember that.

The next “2025-Term 2” post will hit on the very important role of the National Security Advisor (NSA).  That post will be password protected because the comments section needs to be intellectual discussion about the ramifications of the presentation.   [Yes, when you see the scale of the problem you are part of the very select 3% group and you prepare your life accordingly.]

The NSA position is critical.  The Intelligence Community will lie to President Trump.

The Nat Sec Advisor intercepts the lies, evaluates the issue to find the small granules of truth; then presents truthful options to President Trump.  The Nat Sec advisor must know the silo system like the back of his hand.  He must know every detail about how it operates, and he must be willing to fight against the AG, DoS, FBI and CIA.

The NatSec Advisor must be strategic, smart and have EXCEPTIONAL judgement.  It would also be beneficial if the The NatSec Advisor had an external compartmented financial resource system – meaning, he was (real world) independently wealthy of DC and ambivalent to the financial interests of the MAGA grifting community.

The NatSec Advisor needs as few attack vectors as possible.  If the NSA is vulnerable, he’s useless.

The traits of impenetrable judgement, stability, brutal honesty and understanding, disqualify names like Patel, Bannon, Flynn, Navarro et al and 95% of the people previously presented.   Now you see the problem.  Michael Flynn and Kash Patel might be good on the National Security Council, which is headed by the NatSec Advisor, but in the primary role, no way; too risky.  more later…

I am going to start giving honest examples of recent history and reminders of human-trait issues that will make people uncomfortable.  I don’t care. The truth is ambivalent about feelings.   We need results.

The Emissary – Trump Staffing 2025


Posted originally on the CTH on August 1, 2024 | Sundance 

The introduction is here [CATCH UP], I am not going to slow down, re-review and/or rewrite anything. We have a limited amount of time, and the focus of these outlines is easy to understand.

In the next few weeks, I am going to write very specifically about who might be best suited for roles and responsibilities. Not from the perspective of the person per se’, but rather from the perspective of a fully understandable context for the position; the reality of what can be pragmatically accomplished, and detailed reasoning for why the challenge they will face exists. Today I focus on “the emissary.”

Without a doubt in my mind, the “emissary” is the most important person President Trump will select.

The Washington DC Intelligence Community (IC) actively work to isolate the office of the president.  This is an almost impossible dynamic to avoid, caused by an entrenched and ideological adversary who has dug themselves deep into the apparatus of government.

The “emissary” is the person who carries the word of President Trump to any person identified by President Trump.  The emissary is very much like a tape recording of President Trump in human form.  The emissary travels to a location, meets a particular person or group, and then recites the opinion of the President.  The words spoken by the emissary, are the words of President Trump.

The IC cannot inject themselves into this dynamic; that is why it is so valuable.

The emissary then hears the response from the intended person or group, repeats it back to them to ensure he/she will return with clarity of intent as expressed, and then returns to the office of the presidency and repeats the reply for the President.  The emissary recites back exactly what he was /is told.

This process is critical when you understand how thoroughly compromised the full Executive Branch is.  More importantly, this process becomes even more critical when you accept the Intelligence Community will lie to the office of the President to retain their position.

Read this next sentence slowly…. If the Senate confirms a director of an IC silo, then that director is demonstrably going to lie to the office of the President.

The Senate only confirms Intelligence Community leadership who are willing to LIE to THE PRESIDENT.    This is just a factual reality.

If the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) confirms them, they will lie.  That is the main role of the SSCI.

The people who constructed the Silos then metastasized the control rot within them, use the term “continuity of government,” to describe the true role and responsibility of the system.  This is not factually wrong.

Where people go wrong is misunderstanding what the “continuity” is that is being maintained.  Truly, the continuity of government is the priority. However, it’s the continuity of currently corrupt and immoral government we are now maintaining.

The CIA Director will lie to President Trump (they did, remember).  The FBI Leadership will lie to President Trump (they did, remember).  The AG will lie, the DNI will lie, the NSA will lie, and all the deputies therein will lie.

Washington DC puts it this way, you probably heard Bill Barr talking about ad-infinitum.  The IC leadership is responsible for maintaining the “continuity of government” at all costs.  The government is more important than The President.

If the continuity of government is maintained by lying to the office of the President, then so be it.  Or, as James Comey said when justifying his lies to the President and his manipulation on March 20th, 2017: “because of the sensitivity of the matter.

You can get as angry as you want about this, it’s just the DC system that exists.  We must deal with what exists, not what we would pretend there to be.

If a candidate for an IC position is not willing to lie to the President, the Senate will not confirm him/her.   This is why President Trump needs an emissary.

The role of the emissary is critical, the qualifications for that role are extremely important.

Remember, this person is speaking on behalf of President Trump.  And representing the responding voice with a similar level of clarity.

The emissary must be of incredible moral character.  They must be honest.  The person should be entirely altruistic.  They must have exceptional judgement, possess no ego, be impervious to scrutiny or review. They must maintain themselves at the highest moral standards at all times and exhibit incredible judgement and wisdom.

Due to the nature of the position the emissary is extremely powerful; therefore, a disposition of humility is also critical.  The President must be able to trust this person without reservation or issue.  At the same time, the entire weight of the U.S. Intelligence Community apparatus will seek to compromise the emissary, as they try to put walls around the President who holds silo-busting power.

Honesty, integrity, humility, trustworthiness, unimpeachable character and exceptional judgement, establish the baseline of traits the emissary must possess.

This is a choice that will be deeply important to President Trump.  Fortunately, it is not a position that requires any confirmation or external approval.  Judgement, discernment, wisdom and silence are the strength characteristics.

From my perspective, I can think of only one qualified candidate, Dr Ben Carson.  However, I could be wrong – I do not know the sum total of the people around President Trump.

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RESOURCES: 

Understand The Fourth Branch

Understand The Trump Doctrine

Introduction to the 2025 Series

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[Next up, the National Security Advisor.  Most of the familiar names are brutally disqualified for this position, based on judgement.]

Tucker Carlson Interviews Senator Mike Lee About Biden’s Forced Removal and Those Who Control DC


Posted originally on the CTH on July 31, 2024 | Sundance

In the first part of the interview with Mike Lee, Tucker Carlson asks his opinion of the Hersch research discussing how Barack Obama threatened Joe Biden into exiting from the 2024 campaign.  Obviously, this led to the installation of Kamala Harris as the nominee, which was the long game of those within the Obama network who still operate the control mechanisms in Washington DC.

As with all DC interviews of participants, keep in mind that Senator Lee operates within a bubble, a construct of intentionally created information “silos,” and as a result -just like all other participants in the industry of Deep State management- Mike Lee is somewhat limited by what he can see.  Voices like Senator Lee, stuck in the silo operations, do not generally have as much big picture information as ordinary Americans; he sees what is outside his window and that frames his reality.  WATCH: 

Chapters:

00:00 Obama Kicking Biden Out
08:13 Biden’s Impairment
20:33 Biden’s Scripted Phone Calls
23:17 The Federal Government Is Too Powerful
36:02 The Progressive Dream
41:51 How to Fix the Problem
57:04 Could Kamala Harris Win?
1:03:01 Why Is Kamala an Abortion Fanatic?
1:09:35 The Hostility Towards Christianity
1:18:23 The Failed Leadership Class
2:02:59 This Election Is Critically Important

Biden And Harris Want To Destroy SCOTUS Because SCOTUS Stands In The Left’s Way


Posted originally on Rumble By Bannons War Room on: July 31, 2024 at 07:00 pm EST