By M. D. Nalapat
A plan has been activated to ensure that the 45th President of the
United States, Donald John Trump does not last more than a thousand days
in office.
If
the plans activated since 8 November 2016 by the “Shadow Men” succeed,
the 45th President of the United States will not last in office beyond a
thousand days from his swearing-in on 20 January 2017. The term “Shadow
Men” refers to officials and policymakers operating in a stealthily
coordinated manner to ensure the furtherance of specific agendas
unrelated to the public interest. These have, since the declaration of
the result of the 8 November 2016 US Presidential elections, activated a
plan designed to ensure that the 45th President of the United States,
Donald John Trump does not last more than a thousand days in office.
They represent the hitherto ubiquitous and dominant Wall
Street-Atlanticist alliance that has devised and implemented policy in
Washington for several decades. These “Shadow Men” form an informal club
of intelligence operatives, businesspersons, officials and politicians,
whose relevance to policymaking and whose monetary wealth depend on the
continuation of policies helpful to the interests they support, even
though these may be harmful to the country they belong to.
Individuals with direct knowledge of the
“1000-day plan” and who are based in Chicago, Washington, New York and
London, warn that 20 January 2017 marked not just Donald J. Trump’s
first day in office as the 45th US President, but the acceleration of an
ongoing campaign that has been designed to ensure that President Trump
“does not continue in the world’s most powerful job for more than a
thousand days”. According to individuals revealing details of the
1,000-day ouster plan, “the preferred route is a steady increase in
public pressure, which would lead to the 45th President’s impeachment by
the US Congress on the basis of presumed misdemeanours. These would be
played up by media persons, who regularly get briefed by officials
active in the shadow network.” These sources claim that no fewer than
three US Senators and 18 members of the House of Representatives
belonging to the Republican Party, “have already signed on to the ‘Dump
Trump’ plan through prodding by members of their staff”, who are part of
the project to ensure a premature and unpleasant finish to the
billionaire’s first four-year term in office. The sources claim that “in
the case of Speaker Paul Ryan, it is his spouse who has been
instrumental in ensuring that he continues on a path designed to trip up
the newly elected President, whatever be his public stance on the
matter”. Others have been converted to the Dump Trump move by friends
and colleagues, “and recruitment is continuing and will go on until a
critical mass is reached, hopefully by the end of the year”. It was
explained that the “Shadow Men” are apprehensive that the strong-willed
billionaire may refuse to get house-trained in the manner that Hillary
Clinton so transparently was. In their view, the role of an elected head
of state is in many aspects ceremonial, and on matters of national
security and strategy, he or she should, in essence, follow the agenda
set for him by the interests represented and protected by the “Shadow
Men”.
TARGET OF POWERFUL GROUPS
A source based in New York claimed that
the focus of the “Shadow Men” until the final months of the US
Presidential campaign was to “disable the campaign of Senator Bernie
Sanders, as their calculation was that Hillary would easily beat Trump
in the 8 November polls”. The sources point to President Trump’s
signature for decision-making method of securing inputs from an
unusually large variety of sources (mostly outside the government),
rather than relying on the guidance proffered by a small coterie of
officials the way almost all Trump’s post-World War II predecessors
have. They say that the self-confidence and independence of mind of the
45th US President are factors that have made him the target of the
powerful groups used to getting their own way in Washington. A few of
the individuals giving information about the 1,000-day plan are still in
significant positions, and with whom details of the “Dump Trump in
1,000 days” operation have been shared by the perpetrators. These
sources have decided to only nominally follow the instructions given to
them with reference to the 1,000-day operation. This way, they remain au
courant of the tactics and the activities of the “Shadow Men” active in
the 1,000-day project, and have decided to give information on the
subject on the strict condition of anonymity, as “careers and in some
cases even lives would be at risk by those we expose”, a source warned.
REMEMBER KENNEDY?
The whistleblowers claim that the first
time a US President was subjected to a secret thousand-day limit on his
term was John F. Kennedy, “who by June 1963 had become so wary of the
advice he was getting from agencies” in which the Shadow Men held key
positions, that he was therefore “increasingly showing an independence
of mind and action that was anathema to this invisible pillar of the
decision-making establishment in the US”. In Kennedy’s case, it was the
22 November 1963 assassination that caused his exit from the White
House. However, the jury is still out on whether the apparent success of
this particular “1,000-day Operation” was due to the assassination
being masterminded by the “Shadow Men”, or because of circumstances
unplanned by them and independently carried out by a single killer, as
claimed by the Chief Justice Earl Warren Commission on the murder. “What
was obvious to intimates during Kennedy’s last months of life is that
the 35th President of the United States had fully understood by then the
games being played by the leadership of the intelligence community and
other agencies of government in promoting narrow agendas that went
against the core interests of the United States”, a New York based
source said.
A London-based source claimed that
“President Kennedy was moving towards an overhaul of US policy, not only
in Vietnam, but elsewhere in Asia and Africa”, towards the visionary
equalitarian trajectory first suggested by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt in his wartime conversations with UK Prime Minister Winston S.
Churchill about the imperative of a speedy declaration by Whitehall
that India would be given its freedom, an undertaking Churchill declined
to give. According to a Washington-based individual contacted for this
report, “Kennedy’s confidants were, by mid-March 1963, in contact with
some of Ho Chi Minh’s old associates in Paris, and their input had led
the US President to come to the conclusion that greater involvement in
that particular theatre (as demanded by the military and the foreign
policy establishment) would be a quagmire negative to US interests. They
claim that Kennedy would have begun the process of withdrawing US
forces from Vietnam by early 1964. However, such a move would have been
contrary to the plans of the Europhile lobby in Washington and New York,
who saw any defiance of their former colonial masters by underdeveloped
countries to be a trend needing to be opposed and reversed. The “Shadow
Men” of that period came up with the superficial but politically potent
“Domino Theory”, which posited that withdrawal from Vietnam would lead
to the collapse of US-friendly governments in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand
and other locations. In fact, it was increased US intervention in
Vietnam that led to the takeover of power in Laos and Cambodia by
elements of the communist movement hostile to Washington.
Subsequently, by end-1967, both President
Lyndon B. Johnson as well as the Democratic Party candidate for the US
Presidency, Hubert H. Humphrey had reached the same conclusion as
Kennedy earlier had, that increased military involvement in Vietnam was
counter-productive to the overall national interest, even though this
served the purposes of the Europhile lobby, which sought to place the US
in lockstep with European capitals working to retain their traditional
dominance over most parts of Asia. The same “Shadow Men”, who handed
over concocted and defamatory material on Donald Trump to his Republican
Party detractors (who immediately ensured that they were released into
the public domain), warned Republican Party Presidential candidate
Richard M. Nixon in 1968 that President Johnson was about to announce a
peace agreement with Vietnam that would be certain to put Vice-President
Humphrey (who agreed with such a policy) into the White House.
According to an individual who gave details of the clandestine
machinations, Henry A. Kissinger assured the “Shadow Men” that Nixon was
committed to pursuing the Vietnam War for “at least five more years”
(beginning 1969) , no matter what his public statements were. The source
revealed that subsequently, through “Shadow Men” working within the
agencies of the US government, “misleading information was fed to the
Hanoi channel that President Johnson was not sincere about his peace
overture”. Such reports served to bring to zero the credibility of the
US and other intermediaries working on a 1968 ceasefire and consequent
stalemate concerning commitments from Hanoi. At the same time, the
Saigon government was encouraged to resort to refuse any peace
agreement, thereby dooming the Johnson-Humphrey initiative. Nixon kept
the promise made of carrying on the war for five more years at the cost
of substantial Vietnamese and US lives and treasure.
A blizzard of misleading reports and
disinformation has thus far prevented full disclosure of the
longstanding (and successful) efforts of the “Shadow Men” to twist US
policy in this and other instances into directions adverse to the
overall interests of the people of the world’s most consequential
country. In most such instances, a cover candidate was publicised by the
“Shadow Men” as the perpetrator, so as to cover up their own
involvement. In Vietnam during the 1960s, that role was cast on Claire
Chennault, who “at no stage was a significant player in the secret
diplomacy surrounding the war and the aborted peace overture during that
period”. She was, according to these sources, “seen with amusement
rather than with respect by the Saigon government”. Interestingly, in
the final year of his truncated term in office, President Richard M.
Nixon himself became wary of those at the top of the investigative and
intelligence agencies supposedly working under his direction, but who,
in fact, followed a separate agenda that he was increasingly coming to
regard as negative to US national interest.
WEAKEN POLITICALLY
During the 2016 US Presidential campaign,
the “Shadow Men” accepted the view of the Clinton campaign headquarters
(with whom they were in constant contact) that Donald Trump would be a
relatively weak candidate against Hillary. Even after Trump secured the
Republican Party nomination without the anticipated large-scale revolt
by party seniors, the perception within the Clinton campaign was that
his personality would deter enough voters from supporting the Republican
nominee to give the Democratic candidate control of the White House
during 2017-2021. Through contacts in the media and within the
Republican Party, there was a steady flow of negative comments and
reports about Trump, mainly focused on his personal and business
dealings, and it was a shock when he nevertheless bested Hillary Clinton
on 8 November. From then onwards, the emphasis shifted to, (a) ensuring
that he would not be in office longer than a thousand days; (b) would
daily face fire-fights designed to distract his attention from
consequential issues; (c) would face opposition from within the
Republican Party; and (d) would within a year lose effective control
over his Administration to select Cabinet picks through a preoccupation
with (political) survival. Between 11 November and 17 December last
year, material seen as damaging to Trump was collated and scheduled for
release every week thereafter till his Inauguration, so that he would
take office already diminished. “The plan was to ensure that his key
Cabinet picks saw him as a liability and distanced themselves from him
both personally and in policy formulation”, a source claimed, adding
that the “steady release into the public space of toxic information
about President Trump would continue until this objective was achieved”,
and by which time the billionaire who won the 8 November 2016
Presidential race, would be “too weakened politically to carry forward
his own agenda” and would therefore have no recourse but to fall back on
the policy basket favoured by the “Shadow Men”.
MAKING OF A FAKE DOSSIER
The sources spoken to claimed that the
recently outed fake dossier concerning a visit by Donald Trump to St
Petersburg and allegations of unsavoury activities in his hotel room
there were incorporated into the “1,000-day plan” by the “Shadow Men”.
They used a London-based Russian oligarch to both “produce and procure
the contrived evidence” through a private security agency in St
Petersburg. “The funding for ensuring that Russian prostitutes gave
false depositions implicating (President) Trump came from a Russian
oligarch based in London, who passes off as pro-Putin, but who, in fact,
has had from the 1990s an active relationship with MI6”. They added
that such operations—which involve seeking to compromise a VIP through
real or morphed images—often involve large sums of money, “as in some
cases, a body double may get used to make the prostitute believe that
the meeting was with the VIP in question”. In the case of the dossier
handed over to the former MI6 contact, “it was never used in business
blackmail, as the Trump organisation refused to do a deal with the
Moscow-based businesswoman who was a rival of the businessman who funded
the making of the dodgy dossier. Hence there was never any cause to
sabotage a deal that never took place” through production of the dossier
and thereby poisoning relations between the Trump organisaton and its
proposed Russian partner. Through a “Shadow Man”, member of a US
Senator’s staff, the cleverly-crafted dossier was handed over to the
Senator, “who read it for two hours at a stretch”, before making several
phone calls and thereafter taking the material to Washington to be
given to an investigative agency, as suggested by a “Shadow Man” staff
member of his. There are “Shadow Men” on the staffs of several US
lawmakers, and often they have control over much of the agenda of the
Senator or Representative in question. “Don’t forget that a primary task
of the ‘Shadow Men’ will be to ensure that enough Republican Party
lawmakers join with those of the Democratic Party to impeach and remove
(President) Trump from office before the 1,000-day deadline passes”, the
source repeated.
MONEY TRAPS
The assessment of the “Shadow Men” is
that the President’s son Eric is “so fully focused on expanding his
business that he may be vulnerable to snares in the future”. The sources
say that the other son (Donald Jr) and the daughters (Ivanka and
Tiffany) are not as immersed into business” as Eric Trump, while Barron
is too young. They add that Ivanka Trump “is now much more concerned
about social issues than on making more money and has a strong
idealistic, even spiritual bent”, although husband Jared “has up to now
been as determined not to let a business opportunity pass” as Eric, and
hence may be susceptible to what may be termed “money traps” i.e.
ethical and legal traps disguised as business opportunities. Those
active in the anti-Trump operation “worry that daughter Ivanka and wife
Melania are, in their separate ways, very protective of the tycoon”, and
hence that “they may discover traps before they can be sprung shut (on a
member of the Trump family)”. Incidentally, the assessment is that
“from about Week 4 or 5 of his quest for the Republican Party
nomination, Donald Trump himself almost totally shifted his focus from
business to politics”. According to a New York-based source, the “Shadow
Men calculate that from the time he won his party’s nomination, Donald
Trump changed focus from making more money to ensuring a place in
history through implementation of an innovative and people-friendly
agenda”. This “change in outlook has made his susceptibility to money
traps much lower”, a source added, claiming that White House Chief of
Staff Reince Priebus and Defense Secretary James Mattis “are among Trump
appointees who have views almost identical to us”, although both are
seen as loyal to the 45th President for the present. The sources say
that “the most loyal individual within (President) Trump’s inner circle
is Counsellor Kelley Ann Conway, followed by National Security Advisor
Michael Flynn”, after of course President Trump’s family, especially
First Daughter Ivanka and First Lady Melania.
INTELLIGENCE
Although media reports claim that US
intelligence agencies are hostile to the just sworn-in President, “in
actual fact most within the middle layers (of these agencies) are
supportive of his (Trump’s) views”, with only the politically-connected
higher levels signing on to the 1,000-day agenda now in the process of
getting implemented. The sources say that the new head of state of the
world’s most powerful country “has an astonishing amount of goodwill
within the operational levels of the investigative and intelligence
agencies”, in contrast to Presidents Kennedy and Nixon. Although they
warn that “efforts have begun from day one of the Trump Presidency to
portray the Chief Executive as being a divider and a disruptor”. These
will move into high gear “only after 200 days of the new
administration”. This would “give time for any reserves of goodwill to
dissipate, thereby ensuring a better reception within the public for
negative depictions” of the new Chief Executive.
WALL STREET ATLANTICIST ALLIANCE
Given the pervasive influence of
businesses dependent on China and the Middle East in Washington, a key
objective of the “Shadow Men” is to ensure that the Enemy Number One
slot remain with Moscow and its allies such as Iran and not migrate to
Beijing or to Saudi Arabia. Another is to ensure that the interests of
Wall Street and the Atlantic Alliance continue to be given primacy in US
policy. The worry of the “Shadow Men” is that a US President “who has
yet to be house trained by the bureaucracy the way Barack Obama was in
his very first week as President of the United States, and who has over
three decades developed strong and consistent views on geopolitics and
on economics over decades” of careful cogitation may succeed in shifting
US policy away from the Wall Street-Atlanticist embrace that has been
the norm since the 1980s. “Trillions of dollars are at stake, so there
is nothing to get surprised about that tens of millions have been spent
these past months on ensuring that the agenda of the Wall
Street-Atlanticist alliance continues to be official US policy”, a
source said, adding that President “Trump represents the most potent
threat to such interests in two generations”. It may be mentioned that
the “Shadow Men” claim credit for “the implosion of the Bernie Sanders
bid for the Democratic Party nomination” as the Senator is “in an
entirely different way as big a danger (as President Trump) to Business
as Usual and Politics as Usual in Washington”. However, the “Shadow Men”
could not prevent Donald John Trump from becoming US President, and it
is therefore likely that they may similarly fail in their bid to remove
him from office within the 1,000-day limit that they have set for
themselves.
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