When I wrote a diary on August 3rd about members of the intelligence community taking the policy reins in order to prevent Trump from undermining our democracy I titled my story “Flight of Fancy? The Deep State Palace Coup May Have Already Happened.” It wasn’t the best title because the term deep state has come to have a different meaning thanks to Q and other conspiracy fringe groups, and I didn’t really mean a coup in the literal sense.
I was really wondering if it was possible that there was a surreptitious movement among the “adults in the room” which came to fruition after the Helsinki summit when top officials realized that Trump was either unhinged, beholden to Putin, or both. They knew he had to be brought under control before he sold us out to the Russians or started a war.
This being said, I concluded that we’d discover whether my flight of fancy was true in this way:
I think we will discover evidence that this may have happened if Trump takes to the road for more and more rallies and that his Tweets become more and more angry and threatening.
If this isn't just a flight of fancy and I am correct, Trump will remain as president thinking he is still in total control. His narcissism won't allow him to believe otherwise.
He’ll hang on enjoying the cheers of his rally crowds until the Mueller report provides compelling reasons for impeachment, a set of facts so damning that with a Democratic House he would be impeached, or its possible the House would impeach him even before the Mueller report, and that public opinion against Trump would be so overwhelming that there would be 67 votes in the Senate to find him guilty.
The following was revealed in the Washington Post in their top of the page article yesterday for their Sunday edition:
Trump at a precarious moment in his presidency: Privately brooding and publicly roaring
It is by the WaPo A team of Philip Rucker, Robert Costa, and Ashley Parker. They interviewed 14 administration officials, presidential friends, and outside advisers to the White House. This is a portion of what they found:
In private, President Trump spent much of the past week brooding, like he often does. He has been anxious about the Russia investigation’s widening fallout, with his former campaign chairman now standing trial. And he has fretted that he is failing to accrue enough political credit for what he claims as triumphs.
At rare moments of introspection for the famously self-centered president, Trump has also expressed to confidants lingering unease about how some in his orbit — including his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. — are ensnared in the Russia probe, in his assessment simply because of their connection to him.
Yet in public, Trump is a man roaring. The president, more than ever, is channeling his internal frustration and fear into a ravenous maw of grievance and invective. He is churning out false statements with greater frequency and attacking his perceived enemies with intensifying fury. A fresh broadside came on Twitter at 11:37 p.m. Friday, mocking basketball superstar LeBron James and calling CNN’s Don Lemon “the dumbest man on television.”
This is the new, uneasy reality for Trump at an especially precarious moment of his presidency, with the Republican Party struggling to keep control of Congress, where a Democratic takeover brings with it the specter of impeachment, and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s grip seeming to tighten on the president and his circle.
This is a man who is using his rallies for therapy. Not to get into the psychotherapy weeds but he is expressing narcissistic rage. Better this than starting a war!
Perhaps one of the adults in the room has encouraged Trump to leave the governing to the experts and, knowing his weakness for praise, told him that the party needed him to criss-cross the country campaigning for Republicans so he can save the Congress from being taken over by those evil Democrats bent on impeaching him.
They would know how much Trump enjoys the affirmation from his crowds:
For nearly 80 minutes on stage in a packed Wilkes-Barre arena, where supporters cheered his flourishes and cut him off at the mere mention of Clinton’s name to chant “Lock her up,” the president was able to relieve some of his pressure with a combination of riffing and schtick. It was an act that, finally, he controlled. Washington Post
WaPo reports he plans to have almost one rally a day in the fall every week until Nov. 6th. This fits with my prediction.
He is ramping up his travel schedule — a rigorous pace that he recently boasted would grow to six or seven days a week this fall — which will keep him in front of his adoring base. Midterm elections typically are referendums on the incumbent president, but by injecting himself so squarely at the center of this year’s House and Senate contests, Trump is further personalizing the Nov. 6 elections. Washington Post
What we seem to be seeing is that there is a parallel government composed of members of the intelligence community, probably by the 14 people that talked to the Washington Post, and the other so-called adults in the room such as John Kelly and Mike Pompeo.
Now we have two new candidates for membership in the parallel government, none other than Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump.
Yesterday Melania made the news when she broke with her husband by supporting LeBron James:
Melania breaks with Trump on LeBron criticism — POLITICO
The day before Ivanka made the news by breaking with her father too:
Ivanka Trump Calls Father's Family Separation Policy ‘Low Point’ — Bloomberg
What is going on?
Is it possible that Melania and Ivanka have finally seen the light because they know first-hand that Trump is no longer able to make rational decisions?
Is it possible, then, they have allied themselves with the grown-ups in the room and joined the parallel government either formally or informally?
I think there is a 50% chance one or both of them have.
Okay, you Kossack cynics, what do you think? Take the poll and weigh in with your comments.
Sunday, Aug 5, 2018 · 1:08:30 PM +00:00 · HalBrown
This is a lead story on MSNBC this morning:
They are reporting about his morning Tweet:
Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics - and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!
The legal analysts are saying that this Tweet has put Trump in legal jeopardy. In it, he admits that the meeting was an attempt to get information on Hillary Clinton because it contradicts what Trump has said in the past about the reasons for the meeting. They are saying the Tweet has fundamentally upended his original story that the meeting was to get information about legal adoptions.
What does this have to do with my notion that there is a parallel government, and that there is a chance Melania and/or Ivanka may be somehow associating themselves with it, formally or more likely informally?
It is because it is an indication that Trump is becoming less and less rational, that he is moving towards becoming so unbalanced that even they realize it is in his best interests, the countries best interest, and even their own best interest, that he is no longer president.
Flight of fancy on my part? Perhaps. But I suggest you do not dismiss it out of hand. Rather let’s watch for further evidence that Melania and Ivanka are trying to send a message to their father and to the country that they no longer are in lock-step with him.
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