In an Excerpt from Greg Miller's new book “The Apprentice,” apparently during phone calls between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Putin was feeding Trump’s “deep state” paranoia.
Trump’s admiration for the leader of Russia was inexplicable and never wavered after taking office. He praised the Russian leader, congratulated him, defended him, pursued meetings with him, and fought virtually any policy or punitive measure that might displease him.
A trained intelligence operative, Putin understood the power of playing to someone’s insecurities and ego. On cue, he reciprocated with frequent praise for the president he had sought to install in the White House.
In phone conversations with Trump, Putin would whisper conspiratorially, telling the U.S. president that it wasn’t their fault that they could not consummate the relationship that each had sought. Instead, Putin sought to reinforce Trump’s belief that he was being undermined by a secret government cabal, a bureaucratic “deep state.”
“It’s not us. We get it,” Putin would tell Trump, according to White House aides. “It’s the subordinates fighting against our friendship.”
This is from “The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy,” which will be released on October 2nd by Custom House. It is…...
A narrative history of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and its fallout, the book is based on hundreds of interviews with people from Trump’s inner circle, current and former government officials, individuals with close ties to the White House, members of the law enforcement and the intelligence communities, foreign officials and confidential documents. Most people interviewed spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified or sensitive U.S. and foreign government deliberations.
Naturally. An ego-addled, immature, insecure, sex-crazed, ignorant-know-it-all, entitled, boorish, arrogant, delusional, man-child, could be so easily manipulated by an ex-intelligence operative like Vladimir Putin.
But as Mr. Putin couldn’t possibly know how an actual democracy, with an actual free press, operates, he apparently wasn’t counting on:
- An Acting US Attorney General not going along
- An FBI Director not being Trump’s loyal lapdog, and testifying against him in Congress
- A US Attorney General Following DOJ guidelines and recusing himself
- An Acting Attorney General for the Russia investigation, appointing a Mob-Prosecutor
- The Mob-Prosecutor running a well-oiled, tight-lipped, efficient, and successful operation
- That investigation causing his “Apprentice” to continue to break the law, using obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and witness tampering, to make his continued presidency limited in both in power and in time.
You may have won the battle, Vlad, by installing this “man” into the presidency.
But this DEMOCRACY will rid itself of him. And of you. Eventually.