The Conspiracy Against President Trump
By
Paul Craig Roberts
March 20, 2017: Listening today to the
broadcast of testimony by FBI Director
Comey and National Security Agency
Director Admiral Michael Rogers before
the House Intelligence Committee (an
oxymoron) made it clear that the
Democrats, Comey, and Rogers intend
conflict with Russia.
The Republicans, for the most part, were
interested to know how security leaks
targeted at Trump Republicans came from
meetings at which only the CIA Director,
NSA Director, and FBI director were
present. Of course, they did not get an
answer, which shows how powerless
congressional oversight committees are.
Comey repeatedly said that he could not
tell the committee anything, because it
would confirm that a press leak was
true. But, he said, speaking generally
and of no specific leak, most leaks come
from “someone who heard something” and
passes it on to the media, which also
explains the inaccuracy of some leaks.
In other words, don’t blame us.
The Democrats were out in force to
demonize Russia, Putin, and everyone,
especially Trump Republicans, who speaks
to a Russian even if the person is still
a private citizen, as was Gen. Flynn
when he recommended to the Russian
ambassador that Russia not respond in
kind to President Obama’s expulsion of
Russian diplomats over Christmas. The
Democrats bestowed yet another demonic
title on Putin. In addition to being
“the new Hitler,” a “thug,” and a “Mafia
don,” today Putin became a “tarantula in
the center of the spy web.”
The Democrats’ position was that Flynn,
by discouraging a Russian tit for tat,
had interfered with the Obama regime’s
policy of worsening relations between
the US and Russia. Some Democrats saw
this as treason. Others saw it as proof
that Flynn and Trump are in Putin’s
pocket, and still others see it as even
worse.
The
Democrats were also very concerned about
lobbyists, if they be Republican,
working for Russian interests, including
Tillerson, the Secretary of State. The
fact that every country employs
lobbyists and that the lobbyists don’t
always register as foreign agents, such
as Israel’s lobbyists, or if news
reports at the time were correct,
neocon
Richard Perle
who represented Turkey in Washington.
Democrats were also after Gen. Flynn for
saying that he had not received money
from the Russian government. Flynn
received a fee for attending the 10th
Anniversary celebration of RT in Moscow.
Is RT, a news organization, the Russian
government? Its budget is supported by
the Russian government, but how does
this differ from the US government’s
support of the budgets of National
Public Radio, Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty, Voice of America? Does this
mean that everyone who gives an
interview to NPR, Radio Liberty, and VOA
is an American agent in the pocket of
the US president? If you attend a
function of one of these organizations,
does it make you an “American
agent/dupe”? Will there be a list of
these people?
What the Democrats tried to do today was
to criminalize everyone who works for
better relations between the US and
Russia. To be for peace between the
nuclear powers is to be a Russian agent
and to be put on a list. The Democrats
insisted that Russia was an enemy out to
get us, and the Democrats had no
difficulty getting Comey and Rogers,
both Obama appointees, to agree.
Comey and Rogers said that Russia was
the main threat to the US, was working
against our interests, and intends to
harm us. Harming us includes opposing US
hegemony and unilateralism. In other
words, if the Russian government acts in
the interests of Russia, the Russian
government is harming the US. From the
testimony it clearly emerged that any
kind of opposition to anything
Washington does is against American
interests.
Both Comey and Rogers declared, falsely,
that Russia had invaded Ukraine and
seized Crimea by force. If Comey and
Rogers are so poorly informed that they
believe this, they are unfit for office.
Crimea has been a part of Russia for 300
years. The population is almost entirely
Russian. When the Soviet Union collapsed
and Washington broke it apart, the
Ukraine became independent for the first
time in history. Crimea, which had been
transferred by Khrushchev in 1954 from
the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic to
the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic,
was included in the transfer on the
condition that Russia had a long term
lease on the naval base in Crimea.
When Washington’s coup overthrew the
democratically elected government in
Ukraine, the Russian populations in
Crimea, and in the new republics of
Luhansk and Donetsk, were attacked and
threatened by the neo-nazi elements in
eastern Ukraine that had fought for
Hitler against the Soviet Union. The
populations of these areas voted
overwhelmingly to reunite with Russia,
from whence they had come. The votes
were fair and open. As Crimea is the
Russian Navy’s Black Sea base, Crimea
was already occupied by Russian forces.
For Comey and Rogers to call this an
“invasion” displays either ignorance or
a lack of integrity.
Indeed, the lack of integrity of the
FBI, NSA, CIA, and Obama regime is
evidenced by the sustained campaign of
lies, distortions, and targeted “news
leaks,” that is, stories planted on the
presstitutes by the intelligence
services about Russian interference in
the presidential election. It is all
about protecting the massive
military/security budget and powers.
Trump threatened both the budget and the
power when he declared that his policy
would be to normalize relations with
Russia. If relations are normalized, the
carefully orchestrated “Russian threat”
disappears. The intelligence services
are not willing for this to happen. The
US intelligence services prefer the risk
of nuclear Armageddon to a budget cut.
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The Democrats are probably not
sufficiently intelligent to understand
that they are fanning the flames of war
between nuclear powers. The Democrats
are desperate to find someone on whom to
pin their loss of the election.
Moreover, by pinning it on a conspiracy
between Trump and Putin, they hope to
remove Trump from office. Although
Pence, who is a Russophobe, is
acceptable to the military/security
complex, the Democrats have hopes of
clearing out Pence as well, as his
election resulted from the alleged
conspiracy, and reinstalling themselves
in the White House.
Americans need to understand that the
political competition between the
Democrats and Republicans is over which
party gets to collect the money for
being the whore for the One Percent.
Traditionally, the party in the White
House gets most of the money, so that is
where both parties want to be.
Michael Morell, a supporter of Hillary
Clinton and President Obama’s last CIA
director in an acting capacity, who was
slated to become
CIA director under Hillary, said,
“On the question of the Trump campaign
conspiring with the Russians, there is
smoke, but there is no fire, at all.
There’s no little campfire, there’s no
little candle, there’s no spark. And
there’s a lot of people looking for it.”
Morell does believe that it was the
Russians who hacked Hillary’s
incriminating emails but not in
collusion with Trump, although the
evidence is that they were a leak from
inside the Democratic National Committee
by disaffected supporters of Bernie
Sanders.
Obama’s Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper said on Meet
the Press on March 5 that he had seen no
evidence of a Putin-Trump conspiracy
when he left office on January 20.
Listening to Comey and Rogers today, if
they are not working against President
Trump, what would classify as working
against Trump? Trump supporters ask why
Trump doesn’t fire these two men who are
working to block a reduction in the
dangerous tensions between Washington
and Russia. Are the Democrats, Comey,
Rogers, the CIA and their media whores
so stupid that they don’t understand
what it means when the President of
Russia says, “the Americans have
destroyed our trust in them?”
Trump doesn’t fire Comey and Rogers,
because he cannot fire them. If he fires
them, the Democrats and presstitutes
will explain the firings as proof that
Trump is a Russian agent and is covering
up his treason by removing those
investigating it.
Trump is trying to use Twitter to
respond to the orchestrated media
assault against him and to achieve some
organization among his supporters, the
working class that elected him. However,
Trump cannot even count on the
Republican Party. Most Republicans are
also dependent on political
contributions from the military/security
complex, and Republicans know that the
intelligence agencies have all the dirt
on them. To fight for Trump is to expose
themselves.
It
is undeniable that
the CIA controls the media,
both in Europe and in the US. Udo
Ulfkotte’s book, Gekauftge
Journalisten, exposed the CIA’s
hold on European journalists when it was
published in Germany in 2014. An English
language edition, Journalists for
Hire: How the CIA Buys the News, is
due out in May. In the meantime Joel
Whitney’s book, Finks: How the C.I.A.
Tricked the World’s Best Writers,
suffices to establish that America’s
most respected journalists drank the
CIA’s Kool-Aid “and thought they were
saving freedom” by serving as
propagandists.
People in the West need to understand
that if the news they receive bears on
the interests of the US
military/security complex, the news is
scripted by the CIA. The CIA serves its
interests, not the interests of the
American people or the interests of
peace.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Economic
Policy and associate editor of the Wall
Street Journal. He was columnist for
Business Week, Scripps Howard News
Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has
had many university appointments. His
internet columns have attracted a
worldwide following. Roberts' latest
books are
The Failure of
Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic
Dissolution of the West,
How America Was Lost,
and
The Neoconservative
Threat to World Order.
