Watch out, America!
The Trump letter to the Wall Street Journal is a trap.
Here is how I figure it:
1. Of course Trump is guilty of shameful things done to young women alongside Jeffrey Epstein. Some acts are likely criminal -- that remains to be revealed -- but surely plenty of what he did would be embarrassing. Trump is a sexual hound-dog who likes them young. We know that.
2. Trump needs to look like a victim of the powerful elites in the media, the Deep State prosecutors, and Democrats. Always the victim. "How come everybody's always picking on me?" That is how he presents himself as fighting back.
3. Trump knew he had an Epstein problem. He is, after all, guilty as sin of preying on beautiful young women, and Epstein kept records. There are already victims who talk. There are pictures. Video. And Ghislaine Maxwell is still alive.
4. Trump has had six months with confederates in the FBI, the Justice Department, and the intelligence services to set up his trap.
5. Trump looks "off his game," as I have written and others have observed. He looks flummoxed and ham-handed on the Epstein mess, saying there would be an announcement of big problems, then reversing himself. He looks guilty. In fact, Trump is the highly skilled message manipulator I have always credited him with being. He isn't "off his game." He is playing his game.
6. The world is falling for it, saying Trump is flailing. Trump is secretly thrilled.
7. To get out of the Epstein mess and revelations of politically-damaging behavior with very young women, Trump needs to discredit his attackers.
8. Trump knows full well this strategy works from his experience with the help Russia gave him in 2016. Even the Republican U.S. Senate's investigation showed that Russia helped his campaign. But one element of the investigation, the Steele Dossier, contained dubious information about a "pee tape" and Hillary Clinton's campaign helped fund that material. Trump uses that to discredit the entire accusation of Russia's help, calling the whole thing "the Russia hoax." He changed the story -- at least as believed by his MAGA base -- from Russia-helping-Trump to Steele-Dossier-hoax.
9. The letter in the file with Trump's drawing and the signature as pubic hair sent to The Wall Street Journal is, in fact, fake. It wasn't writen by Trump. It was carefully placed there by confederates in the FBI and leaked to the WSJ, so they would reveal it. It is the new version of the Steele Dossier. His $10 billion lawsuit against the WSJ is the device for making sure it will go through evidence discovery and the letter be revealed as fake.
10. When the WSJ-reported letter is revealed as fake, the media, prosecutors, Democrats, and the whole notion of "truth" in relation to the Epstein mess will be discredited. So when embarrassing things come out about Trump showing him to be a disgusting sexual predator, it will all be dubious. He has inoculated himself. Believe nothing! Fake news!
11. This will be a story about fake evidence not Trump pushing himself onto very young women with Epstein's help.
12. Trump is a master of manipulating the message and turning the tables on his accusers. Trump will not just survive this. He will come out ahead. He will have stuck it to the WSJ and Fox News, which had the temerity to show some independent news judgment. That will teach them. Trump is good at this, and we are being played.
A note to readers:
Readers often misinterpret me. They presume that anyone who describes Trump's superb skills as a political athlete and con man must be praising Trump. "How come you say such nice things about Satan?" one reader wrote me, saying she was cancelling her subscription. My saying that Trump is skilled at lying and and getting away with disgusting behavior that endangers our democracy is not saying "nice things." I am explaining how a person of such corrupt character could be elected president of the U.S. and stay out of prison.
I am not praising him. I am warning us.
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5 comments:
I would agree with this EXCEPT there's one big problem with this entire scenario you've laid out: the part where the Wall Street Journal is just happy to get sued and lose and whatever else happens to them if the Happy Bday note is fake. The WSJ has actually been fairly or at least mildly critical of Trump on a consistent basis, which from a right of center news source is basically unheard of.
The WSJ also presumably has a cadre of competent lawyers who work for them, for a story this explosive (they absolutely HAD to know they'd get sued if they published, their lawyers must have been absolutely certain about the authenticity of the note.
Unless you are proposing an even deeper conspiracy wherein Rupert Murdoch and Trump cooked up the plot you just described together and WSJ getting sued for libel and losing if your theory is correct is all just part of the plan. That strikes me as extraordinarily unlikely.
Instead there's plenty of evidence that Trump actually likes to and has drawn doodle pictures fairly regularly over the years. Him and Jeff were great pals at the time, and writing a funny birthday note to your buddy for his 50th birthday is something that lots of people would do. It just so happens that lots of people AREN'T best friends with pedophiles and are sexual predators themselves.
I'm looking forward to the lawsuit, discovery goes both ways and if WSJ can show some courage I'm certain they can turnup some even juicier things on Trump. The defensiveness Trump has shown about the whole Epstein Files thing after the Bondi memo thing is just incredibly suspicious.
Definitely a stable 11 dimensional chess level genius!
I agree Woke guy, the Rupert Murdoch piece may be a factor. Supposedly Fox News isn’t being as solicitous to Trump on this, but betting against Trump is a bit like betting against Tom Brady I’m afraid. Age will get Trump if nothing else does as Father Time always wins.
The elaborate conspiracy theory Peter outlines presupposes that Trump thinks strategically, but his tariff confusion belies that notion and Trump has made it clear that he goes by his gut – the specific part apparently being his rectum. Trump isn’t a master communicator; he’s just a sociopathic racist telling other racists what they want to hear. Let’s not forget how he rose to power: by being the biggest blabbermouth in the birther movement.
Who has the best handwriting analyst? Trump or Murdoch? I predict Trump's handwriting analyst will say Trump can't write. LOL
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