Posted originally on the CTH on July 11, 2024 | Sundance
As things in Washington DC unfold, it is easy to lose sight of the forest due to the trees. A few obvious big picture items:
♦ First, why is Volodymyr Zelenskyy attending a NATO summit? Ukraine is not a part of NATO.
♦ Second, do not overlook the big picture.
While a NATO summit is happening in DC, Joe Biden is under the most intense political attack in his tenure, from his own administration. This does not happen without the approval of the deepest elements within the Deep State apparatus, the Intelligence Community.
There is no way the entirety of the system, which in this case is specifically the U.S. State Department and Intelligence Community, would normally be launching a full-frontal assault on the office of the presidency while international leaders are here.
This just isn’t done and represents a historic inflection point. So, we must ask what’s the background, motive and intent?
The obvious answer is that removing Joe Biden is seen as the best option for the DoS/IC. This perspective highlights the non-pretending reality that these institutions regard the November election as lost if Joe Biden remains their candidate.
The IC and Dept of State cannot have Donald Trump take control of their operation, especially since the recent Supreme Court ruling that affirmed a majority opinion using strong language consistent with the Unitary Executive theory of the Constitution.
The Supreme Court said, the President is “a person alone who comprises a branch of government.” [pdf, page 38] In essence, the president *IS* the Executive Branch, and all of the other various bureaucratic agents and agencies within it are under his unilateral “official act” control.
From my perspective, research and years of being in/around the silos which make up the intelligence apparatus, this Supreme Court ruling is THE MOTIVE behind their urgency to get rid of Joe Biden; not, I repeat NOT, the underlying dementia and cognitive incapacity of their president.
The IC doesn’t fear Biden’s mental health issue except for the fact that it now puts a stronger likelihood on President Trump taking back the office of the presidency. That office was just declared officially recognized by SCOTUS with the power and authority to deconstruct the IC. That’s the bigger issue, not Biden per se’.
To the extent that Joe Biden will lose the November election, in combination with the Supreme Court ruling, that confluence became the five-alarm fire that triggered the intense urgency of the IC to take immediate and aggressive action with extreme prejudice.
Watching every silo within those agencies now come out in support of Biden’s removal, which we see in the attacks during the NATO summit, while simultaneously the pretending politicians in the legislative branch are shouting “our democracy,” is a level of something well beyond hypocrisy.
Millions of Democrat voters have spoken, Biden is their candidate. However, when faced with their own demise, the apparatus of the government he represents now says, ‘WHOAH, WAIT A MINUTE, this is not okay for us.’ Now, this “our democracy” mask drops very publicly and the elements within the deepest part of the very dark Deep State say “no,” and reveal their true face.
[Source, pdf – page 38]
The 6-3 opinion held that the President is “a person alone who comprises a branch of government.” This is important to understand. The Executive Branch is the President.
As noted by reader Alex1689: […] Read the SCOTUS opinion, not from a point of view of apprehension about President Trump (he’ll be fine), but from the point of view of what does this allow him to do in his second term, and what straightjackets does it remove that were a threat during his first term?
To start, the court wrote about powers that carry with them core, absolute immunity, the exercise of which cannot come under question in any forum. It specifically identified:
Pardons
Recognition of foreign governments
Removal of executive branch officials.
If it can’t be questioned . . . It also cannot be the grounds for impeachment, can it?
Let’s repeat: If it’s a core power, the exercise of the core power cannot be grounds for impeachment (*except if done in connection with taking a bribe).
In his first term, there was the threat that if President Trump fired . . .
Rosenstein
Barr
Fauci
That he would be prosecuted for obstruction of justice or impeached.
That threat is forever off the table now.
He can fire anyone he likes in the executive branch. The straightjacket is gone.
On that point, further, the majority opinion uses strong language consistent with the Unitary Executive theory of the Constitution. The President is “a person alone who comprises a branch of government.”
While there are areas of shared constitutional responsibility, the core powers of the Executive Branch, including personnel, are the President’s alone.
Schedule F
Boom.
While impeachment is a political process within the Legislative Branch, and the Supreme Court is extremely hesitant to overstep their role therein, the High Court did put this sentiment clearly into the opinion about immunity: …“The President is not above the law. But Congress may not criminalize the President’s conduct in carrying out the responsibilities of the Executive Branch under the Constitution.”…
Congress may not criminalize the conduct of the President simply for carrying out his core executive branch duties.
Removal of Executive Branch officials is a core duty, an official act, carrying absolute immunity.
That newly affirmed reality is exactly why the Intelligence Community and the Lawfare crowd are very alarmed.
Then think about the scale of how everyone has jumped into action to cover up everything that happened during the tenure of Barack Obama and the targeting of Donald Trump. Think about the DOJ and FBI conduct, the Intelligence Community effort, the CIA, the DNI, everything that everyone did -in both political parties- in order to bury the reality of what took place using “their democracy.”
And now, the Supreme Court says that Godzilla Trump has full power of the executive branch, and the strongest likelihood is that Godzilla is going to arrive in November.
The DC Deep State is attacking Joe Biden during his NATO summit, and that summit is being held in Washington DC.
Put all of that together and you reach one fully contextualized scale of conclusion,
Joe’s gotta go!
Centinel2012 