Coming Coup Against Trump

Coming Coup Against Trump

By Finian Cunningham
Information Clearing House
July 18, 2018

The American backlash against President Trump over his summit
with Russian leader Vladimir Putin has been as ferocious as it was
predictable.

Every possible vilification has been thrown at him.

But it is the slur of Trump as "traitor" that puts this President
in grave danger.

Democrats, Republicans, state intelligence pundits, hawkish
media, liberal media — all have launched a torrent of attacks
on Donald Trump for daring to meet with Putin in Helsinki this
week.

The Washington Post accused Trump of "openly colluding with
the criminal leader of a hostile power."

Let those extreme words sink in for a moment.

The implication is as serious as it can get.

As with other politicians and media outlets, the Post said the
President had "betrayed" American intelligence services by siding
with President Putin in denying that Russia had interfered in U.S.
elections.

Former CIA chief John Brennan denounced Trump as a "traitor"
who had "committed high crimes" in holding a friendly summit
with Putin.

It can't get more seditious than that.

Trump is being denigrated by almost the entire political and media
establishment in the US as a "treasonous" enemy of the state.

Following this logic, there is only one thing for it: the U.S.
establishment is calling for a coup to depose the 45th President.

One Washington Post oped out of a total of five assailing the
President gave the following stark ultimatum: "If you work for
Trump, quit now."

The US political class have cast their verdict that Trump is a
state enemy, and are openly calling for a mutiny against the
White House.

Trump's political survival is the balance.

Possibly the only thing staying the hands of his enemies for now
is their wariness about how the ordinary American citizens would
react to a deep state maneuver to overthrow the elected leader.

Despite the torrid hysteria in the U.S. political elite over the
meeting with Putin, the mass of American citizens seem rather
sanguine about the development.

It's fair to say that many Americans would applaud the attempt
by Trump to normalize relations with Moscow.

After all, that was one of the main reasons why they voted him
into the White House in 2016.

The American political class are agog to get rid of Trump, but they
are apprehensive to make a decisive move just yet, because such a
gambit to depose the president may engender a wider social revolt
against the elites.

There is a strong sense that US society is seething from numerous
grievances.

Poverty and abysmal social inequality as well as popular alienation
from the Washington establishment are all too rife for a potential
civil war or revolution if stoked too much.

One can anticipate that the media campaign to pillory Trump
as a traitor will go into overdrive in the coming days, with the
calculation by his powerful enemies within the deep state that
public opinion can be turned decisively against him for "betraying
America" to a "hostile enemy."

If that manipulation of public opinion is achieved, then Trump
is a goner.

Admittedly, Trump has many flaws and much of his foreign policy is
in keeping with the usual criminal conduct of American imperialism.

But one thing that can be said in his favor is that he is not driven
by an irrational Russophobia nor a hellbent determination to have
a confrontation with Moscow — unlike many in the U.S. establishment.

Trump is often guilty of peddling fake news himself.

But one thing he gets right is his dismissal of the "Russia-gate"
narrative as a hoax.

The US establishment created that farce as a way to undermine
Trump and overturn his intention of normalizing relations with
Russia.

For two years, Trump's political enemies have been flogging
the "Russia interfered in our democracy" trope — to no avail.

The latest wheeze was the unsubstantiated indictment of
12 Russian military intelligence personnel only days before
the Helsinki summit.

To be fair to Trump, he wasn't dissuaded by that effort to sabotage
his summit with Putin.

But the trap was set.

As soon as the meeting was over in Helsinki, all hell has broken lose
in the deep state-controlled US media and politicians, condemning
Trump.

Russia's Putin called the tedious allegations of Russian interference
in U.S. democracy "the biggest nonsense ever."

Trump said he agreed with that assessment.

Probably many ordinary American citizens also agree that the
whole affair has been cooked up by political elites who were
never happy with the democratic mandate given to Trump.

Trump is right to reject the so-called US intelligence assessment
claiming that Russia under Putin's orders meddled in the
Presidential race.

Putin told the Helsinki press conference that he wanted Trump
to win the election in order to improve bilateral relations.

So what?

Are foreign leaders not entitled to have opinions on who comes
to power in rival countries?

In any case, the US intelligence assessment is not conclusive nor a
consensus of all 16 state agencies, as former American ambassador
Jack Matlock recently pointed out.

In other words, the claim is only partial and far from definitive.

It was "politically motivated," said Matlock, a veteran diplomat.

The American political class is sick.

It is suffering from a psychosis that prevents any understanding
of reality.

It is living in abject denial of reality, convinced of its delusions
about Russia being a hostile enemy, and Trump being a "Kremlin
stooge".

The problem for the American establishment is that it
doesn't like the way democracy worked out.

The people voted for a candidate who wanted to restore
relations with Russia.

For the elite, that outcome is unacceptable, and they have tried
every dirty trick in the book to overturn the democratic process.

Ironically, they claim that Russia tried to subvert American
democracy, when it is the effete elite in Washington and
the deep state apparatus that are subverting the country's
constitution.

How ludicrous can these people get?

An American President holds a long-overdue meeting
with the leader of the world's second nuclear power.

The meeting was a success in terms of opening a
friendly dialogue between the two leaders.

And yet the US ruling class excoriate this event as
a "disgrace" and "criminal collusion".

The interests of ordinary American citizens, as with the mass of
people around the world, are not served by irrational hostility
towards Russia.

It is in our interests to have peaceful dialogue and to develop
mutual understanding between the US and Russia to avert
confrontations.

It is only an unrepresentative elite who could possibly
want hostility.

War and conflict is profitable for a tiny few.

But this cabal in the US, and among its European allies, driven by
Russophobia and war profits, is nevertheless extremely powerful.

They control the mainstream media and politicians with their
money and intelligence assets.

When the interests of the ruling elite in the U.S. are threatened
anything is possible.

Assassinations and coups are par for the course for these plutocrats
and their agents.

The livid reaction to Trump's eminently reasonable engagement
with Putin this week — a reaction that is vicious and coordinated
is an ominous sign that powerful forces are moving against this
President.

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