I
Feel Sorry For President Trump
By Paul
Craig Roberts
September 03, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
- Yes, I know.
I am lining up on the wrong side. You
are supposed to hate him. The presstitutes hate
Trump.
So does the Democratic Party, part of the
Republican Party, the military/security complex,
the entirety of the liberal/progressive/left,
the universities, feminists, and Washington’s
vassal states.
No one likes him but the “racist, white
supremacist Trump deplorables.”
Nevertheless, I feel sorry for him.
I started feeling sorry for him when he
announced he would run for President of the
United States.
You see, I had inside information. I had
held a presidential appointment from a President
of the United States.
I ended up fighting battles for him
against entrenched interests who opposed his
policies to end stagflation and the cold war.
I helped to win the battles for him, as
his accolades to me testify, but my success
ended any career for me in government.
I knew
that, unlike Reagan who had prepared his run
over the years and had a movement behind him,
Trump had not.
Moreover, also unlike Reagan, Trump had
no idea of what he was walking into and no idea
of who to appoint to important offices who might
be inclined to help him.
Generally speaking, the value of a
presidential appointment, such as the one I had,
lies NOT in helping the president, but in
helping the ruling private establishment.
Any Assistant Secretary can be very
helpful to private interests and end up a
multi-millionaire.
Indeed, most of them do.
But I put the country’s interest ahead of mine
and helped Reagan to cure stagflation and to end
the cold war. Curing stagflation was perceived
as a threat by the economics profession which
had no cure and didn’t want to be shown up by
dissident supply-side economists, and much of
Wall Street misunderstood what the media called
“Reaganomics” as more inflationary deficit
spending that threatened their stock and bond
portfolios.
Ending the Cold War threatened the budget
of the military/security complex, a dangerous
undertaking.
A
decade or two ago a person I had known when I
was in Washington, who was a professor in
Massachusettes, telephoned me.
He said he had just returned from
Washington where he had had lunch with some of
my former colleagues.
He had asked them about me, and according
to his report, they said:
“Poor Craig.
If he had not turned critic , he would be
worth tens of millions of dollars like us.”
My former acquaintance said that he stood
up and said that he didn’t realize that he was
having lunch with a bunch of whores and left.
Obviously, my adquaintance did not intend to
return to a Washington career.
What
does this have to do with Trump?
Trump’s life was going well. He is a
billionaire married to the most beautiful woman
in the world.
The last thing he needed was the problems
of the United States.
To change the locked in, interest group
controlled course of America requires a
superhero. This is definitely not a job for an
unprepared man in his 70s.
The truckloads of mud dumped on him by
porn stars and prostitutes are unlikely to have
strengthened his relationship with his wife.
As I
predicted would be the case, Trump had no idea
who to appoint to help him.
Consequently, he appointed everyone
opposed to his renewal of American jobs and
peaceful relationships with Russia, China, Iran,
and the Middle East.
So nothing has changed.
Why in the world a successful person
covets an office where failure is the norm is
beyond me.
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Trump’s
first, and perhaps only, term has been consumed
in the Russiagate orchestration.
John Brennan, the CIA director, and James
Comey, the FBI director, along with President
Obama, the Obama Justice (sic) Department, the
presstitute American media, and the Hilary
Democratic National Committee concocted an
absurd investigation of the elected President of
the United States as a Russian agent,
a tool of
Vladimir Putin’s plan to rule America.
How
anyone could believe such a preposterous story
is incredible.
But Democrats and the presstitutes
claimed it was true.
But Mueller was unable to establish it.
After his failure, Mueller’s testimony
before Congress was immensely embarrassing to
him, the Democrats, and the whore American
media.
Trump, with the deck cleared, hoped to hold
accountable those who tried to overthrow him in
a coup. Comey was investigated.
He was found indictable on a number of
offenses. The Department of Justice (sic)
Inspector General’s report concluded:
“The
IG report confirms Mr. Comey improperly kept FBI
files on President Trump
at his home and that he illicitly leaked these
FBI files to the New York Times in order to
advance his personal agenda of getting a Special
Counsel appointed to target the president. Comey
also misled both the FBI and Congress about his
handling of these documents. On top of all of
that, in violation of law, he kept and disclosed
classified information.”
Here is Howie Carr’s summary: Let me summarize
the 80-plus pages for you by pulling out some
quotes: “Violated Department and FBI policies. …
Comey Improperly Disclosed … Comey’s Improper
Disclosures… Comey’s characterization finds no
support in the law and is wholly incompatible
with the plain language of the statutes,
regulations and policies defining federal
records, and the terms of Comey’s FBI Employment
Agreement. … Comey violated … this assertion is
without legal basis. … Unauthorized disclosure …
Former Director Comey failed to live up to this
responsibility … a dangerous example …..” And so
on.
The
IG report generously forgot that Comey went
before the FISA Court with a fraudelant request,
which is a felony.
Comey’s offenses exceed those of Mike Milken,
Leona Helmsley, and Martha Stewart, all of whom
were put in prison on false charges in order to
raise the name recognization of ambitious
publicity-seeking prosecutors, one of whom was
Comey himself.
Comey framed Martha Stewart.
Rudi
Guiliana framed Milken in order to become New
York City Mayor.
Helmsley was framed on the basis of a
false statement by an accounant solicited by the
Justice (sic) Department in exchange for
dropping prosecution of the accountant for his
own misdeeds.
Mueller
presided over the FBI’s 9/11 investigation and
deepsixed all the real evidence in order to
protect the false official story.
So,
what did the Justice (sic) Department IG suggest
for Comey?
The Justice Department refused to
prosecute.
Justice is far less important to the
department than protecting its own.
The Justice Department is itself
engaging in misconduct by refusing to prosecute
a person that the Justice Department knows
beyond all doubt committed crimes.
Did the Justice Department decide that
Comey’s crimes can be forgiven because they were
committed for good cause—getting rid of
President Trump?
Former
US Attorneys and Assistant US Attorneys are on
record predicting that there would be
indictments of those who orchestrated Russiagate
in a conspiracy of sedition to overthrow the
elected President of the United States.
I
would have liked to have believed it, but I
never did.
The United States does not have a Justice
system. In the place of justice the US has a
weapon in the hands of the state. It is not a
weapon that the state often uses against its own
functionaries.
Don’t
forget.
The Justice Department and FBI covered
up for Hillary. She had broken laws governing
official State Department email and used a
private server to hide her wheeling and dealing.
Judicial Watch is attempting to open up
the coverup. A federal court has given Judicial
Watch power
to depose Hillary Clinton and Cheryl Mills and
to interrogate others.
I suspect the judge will be overturned by
a politically chosen Appeals Court, and that
will be the end of the matter.
I
am unable to recall examples of the US
government or its officials being held
accountable and do not remember a single
incident other than President Reagan’s
prosecution of the Iran-Contra neoconservatives,
who were pardoned by President George H.W. Bush
.
Now
that Comey has been protected, we have to expect
that his co-conspirators in the plot to
overthrow the President of the United States
will also be protected from prosecution.
It will be interesting to count all the
crimes that will not be punished and add up all
the prison years that won’t be served. When you
think about the large percentage of innocent
people in prison and on death row and about the
mothers of young children who are imprisoned for
drug possession, it makes you sick that Comey
who tried to overthrow the elected President of
the United States is permitted to walk.
All
future presidents will have learned from Trump’s
fate that their real job is to foment enough
American enemies to keep the military/security
complex’s budget expanding.
The United States will continue on its
course toward war with its homemade adversaries.
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.
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==See Also==
The worst is still to
come for Jim Comey
Hurricane Comey Was a
National Disaster:
The bureaucratic rules he flouted are
designed to protect the country from people like
the FBI chief.
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