Donald Trump won in Florida claiming its 99 delegates, leading Marco Rubio to suspend his campaign. Trump has also won Illinois and North Carolina, placing him ever closer to that magic 1,237 number. As of this writing we don't have exact delegate totals from last night because Trump and Ted Cruz were running neck-and-neck in Missouri. John Kasich held on to win in his home state of Ohio, getting its 66 delegates, although his delegate totals are so far behind Trump’s that Cruz is the only viable alternative to Trump at this point.
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/trump-has-a-big-night-knocks-rubio-out-of-the-061612247.html
In other words, Trump is closer to the GOP nomination today, and whatever that portends, than he was at this time yesterday (good reason for waiting to post this).
But … what are we to make of this?
We’ve raised the issue once before. It has been raised by a small handful of others. No one is discussing it. Trump himself won’t touch the subject; he supporters appear to be unaware of it. Nor, interestingly, are his detractors, of either the GOP Establishment or left wing sources.
No one is talking, that is, about a possible connection between Donald Trump and his candidacy for president of the United States and Richard N. Haass, president (since 2003) of the powerful, behind-the-scenes Council on Foreign Relations, which has had a hand in events going back to the early 1920s. Elites of the time organized the CFR in response to the U.S. Senate’s refusal to allow the U.S. to join the League of Nations, the first attempt at a global governance body. A list of all the presidents, presidential staff, members of Congress, etc., who are members of the Council on Foreign Relations would absorb pages of text.
My source, I will note, is the New York Times, not InfoWars or some other “conspiracy” site. That enables us to dispense with the notion that I am floating a “conspiracy theory” of the Trump candidacy. The fact that the meeting described was held is a fact, not a theory. As are many other so-called “conspiracies,” whether one likes it or not, whether the fact pushes at people’s comfort zones or not.
As I see things, there are two possibilities here.
First possibility: Trump is not an expert on foreign policy. I don’t believe he would claim to be. He therefore began casting about, amongst his associates and within his professional network, for names of those who are, who could guide him. Haass’s name kept surfacing. So Trump approached him, not knowing that Haass is a hard-core globalist but perhaps liking the fact that Haass is promoting — possibly with reason — that U.S. ratchet down its involvement in the Middle East (which has proven to be disastrous) and pay more attention to what is going on in Asia. This might accord with Trump’s view that China has taken advantage of the naiveté of U.S. trade policy.
If this is true, someone able to bend Trump's ear needs to inform him!
A possible mitigating fact is that all the candidates have had meetings at the Council on Foreign Relations. But in that case, none are as far outside the Establishment as Trump purports to me. Which brings me to the:
Second possibility: better sit down. The second possibility is that the entire Trump campaign, from start to finish, has been a work of theater … a grade-a psy-op … a work of Hegelian dialectic, call it what you will, the purpose of which has been to create an “opposition” to the Establishment and then control it, channeling many ordinary Americans’ anger in a direction where it has definite outlets (e.g., at Trump rallies) but can’t do any actual harm in the long run.
The result would be: the globalists win again, regardless of what The Donald does! They win if he wins the nomination in Cleveland, becomes the GOP nominee, and loses to Hillary in the general election! They win if he defeats Hillary! They win, because Richard Haass and others with very similar views will again staff the cabinet of a Trump administration. We would see a rapid ratcheting down of Trump’s “populism”!
In the name of maintaining the “international system,” of course.
There would be consequences, when Trump fails to deliver on his promises to “bring manufacturing jobs back to America” as part of “making America great again,” because this just isn’t what the global power elite wants. Trump may have been sincere in wanting this. But as I noted in the final paragraphs of my “The Real Class War,” he is a billionaire going up against people able to control trillions. They are fully capable of blackmailing him by threatening to cause the worst depression in U.S. history and seeing to it that he was blamed for it.
We have seen what can only be described as an insurrection these past several months. Voters are speaking out, and rejecting the Establishment, and this has occurred in the Democratic as well as the Republican Party, which is why Bernie Sanders has been able to mount a credible opposition to Hillary Clinton (he can safely call himself a “democratic socialist” because most of his millennial supporters couldn’t tell you what a democratic socialist believes).
If Trump by some chance makes it into the highest office of the land and then betrays those who put him there, then given the anger that exists now, he would be wise to maintain the constant personal security on a 24 hour basis he doubtless has in place because of the enemies he has now.
Someone has to think about these things!
I emailed Zerohedge, WND, and Alex Jones about this when I first noticed Trump praising Haass as a potential foreign affairs advisor 2/3 into the last debate. NO REPLY. Willful ignoring?
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