How Trump Was Played

Trump didn't drain the swamp, he drowned in it

I never liked Donald Trump. He has charm and a big mouth, but I think he is overrated and ethically corrupt. I am old-fashioned. I expect decency and dignity from a leader. Trump has neither. And I don’t think he makes smart decisions because of his egocentricity.

He might be better than Biden, but that is no reason to re-elect him as president. In the last 90 years, since Herbert Hoover in 1933, only three other presidents didn’t win a second term: Ford, Carter and Bush Senior. He was the sitting president and lost against old man Biden. So what does that tell you? Why would you let a loser run again?

Surprisingly, Trump seems to be popular in the Anti-Covid and Freedom movement. Unfortunately, Dr Robert Malone is endorsing him, which will cost him my paid subscription. I think Malone makes a mistake aligning himself politically. As a true freedom fighter, you don’t endorse the guy who caused all this Covid fiasco, as pointed out in this substack. People forget so quickly.

Granted, the Democrats behave like woke idiots, but that doesn’t mean Trump will save America if he wins another presidency. People forget that he caused this whole Covid - vaccine and lockdown dilemma. Fauci and others played him big time. This shows that Trump doesn’t have the political nuance and instinct to be a successful good president, let alone statesmanship.

This Herland Report Newsletter gives a nuanced and plausible overview of what happened in March 2020.

Here is the timeline.

On the 9th of March 2020, Trump tweeted:

“So last year, 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, and life & the economy go on. Currently there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020

Trump wasn’t scared of Covid and saw it as what it was: A flu-like virus. However, this changed rapidly in the following days:

On the 11th of March, Fauci was the key witness in a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing. According to Jeffrey A. Tucker, Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute, Fauci played them like fools.

There was growing political and societal panic on March 11, 2020, when the House Oversight and Reform Committee convened a hearing on the new virus circulating. Fauci was the key witness. The only question on everyone’s mind came down to the most primal fear: am I going to die from this thing, like in the movies?

These few days will remain a case study in irrationality and crowd madness. Fauci, on the day of his testimony, however, seemed like a paragon of stability. He was calm and clear, nearly bloodless in his tone. The substance of what he said, at the same time, was clearly designed to generate panic and create the conditions for a full lockdown. 

In his testimony, Fauci says:

The Corona Virus is ten times more lethal than the seasonal flu.

The same day, Robert O’Brian, Trump’s National Security Advisor, introduced Deborah Bix as the new Covid Task Force Coordinator. The Covid topic rushed from a health issue to a National Security issue. Something happened.

On the 12th, Trump shut all travel from Europe, the UK, and Australia, causing huge human pile-ups at international airports.

On the 13th, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a classified document that transferred control of pandemic policy from the CDC to the National Security Council and eventually the Department of Homeland Security.

This indicated a significant shift from Covid as a health issue to Covid as a National Security issue. So what happened between the 9th and the 13th? According to Herland, this very plausible chain of events fooled the American President:

On March 10, and in response to Trump’s dismissive tweet the day before, some trusted sources within and around the National Security Council (Matthew Pottinger and Michael Callahan, for example), and probably involving some from military command and others, came to Trump to let him know a highly classified secret.

The revelation was that the virus was not a textbook virus but something far more threatening and terrible. It came from a research lab in Wuhan. It might in fact be a bioweapon.

The US should do the same, they said, and there is a fix available too and it is being carefully guarded by the military.

It seems that the virus had already been mapped in order to make a vaccine to protect the population. Thanks to 20 years of research on mRNA platforms, they told him, this vaccine can be rolled out in months, not years.

It is well-known now that there was an incident in the Wuhan lab in September 2019. At Event 201, a few weeks later, it was circulated that Moderna was already working on an mRNA vaccine against Covid and that repurposed drugs should not be used to allow Emergency Use Authorization. So Trump was kept in the dark by his security and intelligence community for over six months. But finally, in March, they had to come clean.

And they must have convinced Trump that they not only had the answer to this new bio-weapon but that he could use this crisis to his advantage.

That means that Trump can lock down and distribute vaccines to save everyone from the China virus, all in time for the election. Doing this would not only assure his reelection but guarantee that he would go down in history as one of the greatest US presidents of all time.

He abandoned his right instincts about the relative harmlessness of the virus and not only got spooked but saw a chance to use the crisis for his benefit. So he rapidly changed tack.

This meeting might only have lasted an hour or two – and might have included a parade of people with the highest-level security clearances – but it was enough to convince Trump.

After all, he had battled China for two previous years, imposing tariffs and making all sorts of threats. It was easy to believe at that point that China might have initiated biological warfare as retaliation. That’s why he made the decision to use all the power of the presidency to push a lockdown under emergency rule.

And thus did he make the fateful decision that not only wrecked his presidency but the country too, imposing harms that will last a generation.

On the 16th of March, Trump held a press conference and handed the media his demands:

• “Governors should close schools in communities that are near areas of community transmission, even if those areas are in neighboring states.” 

• “All states should follow Federal guidance and halt social visits to nursing homes and retirement and long-term care facilities.”

•  “Bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms, and other indoor and outdoor venues where groups of people congregate should be closed.”

Trump had agreed to “15 days to flatten the curve,” which Task Force coordinator Deborah Birx later admitted was a ruse, not just tricking the public but Trump too.

“Fifteen Days to Slow the Spread was a start, but I knew it would be just that,” she writes. “I didn’t have the numbers in front of me yet to make the case for extending it longer, but I had two weeks to get them. However hard it had been to get the fifteen-day shutdown approved, getting another one would be more difficult by many orders of magnitude.”

And so the country locked down. […] The administrative state – the unelected machinery that surrounded him and had plotted this caper all along – made it so, […] 

It only took a few weeks for Trump to become suspicious about what happened. For weeks and months, he toggled between believing that he was tricked and believing that he did the right thing

This article describes in fascinating detail the dilemma that Trump faced when he realised it was tough to undo the lockdown he foolishly agreed to. A chaotic six weeks followed were Trump seesawed between supporting and fighting the lockdowns. He was a confused president, and the actual puppeteers behind the scenes played him masterfully.

Another two months went by when the country was in chaos. There were protests under any pretext, plus riots. There was confusion all around, and some cities were in flames. No one could understand what was happening. The president who promised to make America great again had urged its shutdown, while slamming nations like Sweden that had not locked down. The media, meanwhile, was nearly united in daily and hourly Covid panic, hunting down any business that was open and shaming all people and institutions that were not complying with distancing rules – unless of course they were protesting Trump. 

He did not fully change his mind until August, when Scott Atlas revealed the whole con to him.

This article explains in detail how Scott Atlas finally stabilised the sinking Trump ship, but it was too little too late.

Even as Trump’s advisors were telling him that this could be a bioweapon leaked from the lab in China, we had Anthony Fauci and his cronies going to great lengths to deny it was a lab leak (even if they believed that it was). This created an interesting situation.

Fauci belonged to both camps, which suggests that Trump very likely knew of Fauci’s deception all along: the “noble lie” to protect the public from knowing the truth. Trump had to be fine with that.

Covid and Donald Trump: Gradually following the lockdown edicts and the takeover by the Department of Homeland Security, in cooperation with a very hostile CDC, Trump lost power and influence over his own government, which is why his later Tweets urging a reopening fell on deaf ears.

To top it off, the vaccine failed to arrive in time for the election. This is because Fauci himself delayed the rollout until after the election, claiming that the trials were not racially diverse enough. Thus Trump’s gambit completely failed, despite all the promises of those around him that it was a guarantee

This article explains how Moderna, through pressure from Fauci and Pfizer, who preferred the Democrats, withheld their positive trial results (94.5% efficiency) until after the elections to deny Trump a badly needed positive headline to win the elections. It is very likely that Fauci, Moderna and Pfizer decided the 2020 presidential elections and maneuvered Trump out of the White House.

Herland concludes:

To be sure, this scenario cannot be proven because the entire event – certainly the most dramatic political move in at least a generation and one with unspeakable costs for the country – remains cloaked in secrecy.

Not even Senator Rand Paul can get the information he needs because it remains classified. […] Still, the above scenario fits all available facts and it is confirmed by second-hand reports from inside the White House.

While this Herland’s story gives a fascinating inside into America’s politics and Trump’s failures to assert himself against the scheming deep-state bureaucrats and the pharmaceutical industry, I believe there is a deeper level to it that hasn’t been touched at all. Many questions are unanswered.

That the pharma companies were motivated by money alone can be accepted. But why is Dr Fauci doing all this and taking risks on the way? He didn’t get much money or power out of this at all. What did motivate him? The well-being of the American people? Shut the door, will you?

And we also have to wonder if China didn’t fool and play the whole world. After all, it started all in that lab in Wuhan. They would have been the first to know how dangerous this bioweapon virus is.

We all know now that it isn’t hazardous. And yet, China made us believe so in the first place. As a result, Western Democracies have been thrown into utter ongoing chaos and destabilisation, which can only be in the interest of China.

And then there is the WEF.

We still don’t know a lot, but we do know that Trump - the hero who set out to drain the swamp - got totally lost in the swamp and was swallowed up. He failed miserably.

Some might say he has all the motivation and anger to fight back. I am sure he has. He will be smarting since he lost to Biden, the guy he mercilessly ridiculed.

Trump has been in the political desert for four years while the swamp’s size and power grew to unprecedented size and influence. So if he couldn’t defeat them then, what makes us think he can now?

And then again, who else has the will to do it, let alone the skills?