I think I am in a position to say something reasonably intelligent about President Trump. I think he is a guy with above average intelligence, but he is not a 4-D chess player. He is a gambler, and someone who has good instincts and–most of all–the willingness to trust them. Sometimes he is miles ahead of everyone. Sometimes he is flat out wrong. But he is guided by his gut, not so much linear logic, or the expansive intellect of a Gary Kasparov, who after all only played 2-D chess. (come to think of it, what WOULD 4-D chess be? Time was already included. I see 4D but we should be using 3D if anything).
I think Trump’s plan for the election was simple: win by more than the margin that the Democrats could cheat by. And it was not a bad plan. They had to do all sorts of funky stuff they had contingency plans for, but did not want to execute for the obvious reason that it made their fraud obvious.
There was no Blockchain coding. And there are not and never have been any mass arrests planned. He could maybe have done more, but we are seeing now that honesty and transparency are–for obvious reasons–roundly opposed wherever Democrats run things, and even in States like Georgia, where Kemp seems to be a bought and kept man, who is right now returning favors he owes people whose names we do not know.
Here is the thing, Trump walked into a “room”–think every room he entered anywhere in Washington–filled with lifelong schemers, who understood every detail of the system, every trick, and who were talented liars. He needed someone honest to watch his back, but found nobody. Nobody I can think of. Flynn was the obvious candidate, and that is why he got attacked and taken out. Mike Pence is an honest, competent guy, but he didn’t know any more than Trump.
So virtually every person in every meeting EVER in his Presidency, Trump is facing people telling him stories. Some he believes, some he doesn’t believe. But he is not in a position to doubt ALL of them. Some people he has to trust. He needs a Director of the FBI, and Comey was an obvious crook and liar and incompetent. Who to pick? This guy? OK: is he solid? Can we trust him? You bet, boss. So Christopher Wray goes to the FBI. Repeat many times, and you get his many mistakes.
How does anyone deal with something like that? Trump is a smart guy, but he is dealing with people on their own terrain, who have been expecting him, planning for him, and who obviously ambushed him with bad ideas, and incompetents everywhere.
Here is what I believe: if Trump were one of them, it would make no sense for him to still be fighting the election. As Joe Biden said, they have a well oiled, fantastic, highly functional voter fraud system. They don’t have to corrupt every city in PA to win. They just need Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and Lancaster. The rest can do what they want. They will never catch up. And since Democrats run those cities, the fraud never would have been detected. No serious arrests would ever have been made. All the groundwork was there to create their own little Venezuela, which clearly would include gun grabs made possible by rigged elections at all levels, and in all places, including the judiciary.
No, there was no reason to upset the apple cart. Even if they want an armed insurrection, they easily could have figured out how to do that without the world seeing their fraud system. That benefits the power elites not at all.
So what I see is a guy who loves his country, who REALLY wants to help us, and who has been surrounded by traitors since Day One. William Barr is obviously one himself. He hasn’t done shit. He has done just enough to not get fired, and to make some people think he might be honest, but nothing close to what he WOULD have done if he actually were honest. He is more or less controlled opposition, opposition which really didn’t oppose much.
No, what Trump has shown is that an ordinary guy can make a HUGE difference if he is doing nothing more complicated than TRYING. Get that? Actually trying to do the job honestly. Not working to satisfy an endless array of disgustingly greedy pigs trying to feed at the trough, but actually trying to make things better for American workers and small and even large businesses.
Trump has shown the essential simplicity of the office, and by extension, how horrifically corrupt the White Houses have been for many many years.
Trump is to be commended. This has not been an easy battle, and a less confident man–being betrayed for the fifth, tenth, thirtyeth time–would have thrown in the towel.
But we NEED him. He is indispensable in my view. I really hope our system is not so broken that he cannot hang onto the White House in the honest, just and legal way that he earned when he won the election.
And THIS TIME he will be much more equal to the smiling faces all around him. One can hope and pray.