Three part act done as revenge for the USA helping Ukraine in 2022? Here is what may happen and Trump is not essential: A weak willed GOP POTUS is
While Donald Trump is sucking the oxygen out of the room, as due to the J6 committee and the terrible events before and afterwards, I think that Pundits are over looking a few things
A. Many GOP conservatives are concluding that Trump is damaged goods. And they want to WIN, in the end of 2024, and there are OTHER successors to Trump who could do the job minus the baggage
Chief of which Is DeSantis. A much younger man than Trump, equally reactionary , but whom does not have the, ahem ISSUES that Trump has with the general electorate.
B. Another factor, as the Russian economy is being demolished, and Putin's army will take several years to rebuild, either Putin or A SUCCESSOR to Putin will want RESULTS as far as their America project
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Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen posited that former President Donald Trump is growing increasingly nervous about the January 6 panel's inquiry, as evidenced by the most recent allegations of witness tampering against him earlier this week.
The House Select committee investigating the insurrection and Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election ended its seventh public hearing earlier this week with a bombshell revelation — Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said?Trump, himself, tried to call a witness in the probe , prompting the unnamed person to decline the former president's call and alert their lawyer.
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The witness tampering allegation is DYNAMITE legally. If Trump had avoided the witness tampering, there would have been a chance for revival in 2024. Now, he will be legally tar brushed with this and this ISSUE would stalk his campaign activity. FATALLY in my opinion
A piece as to 2025 instant results, AKA GOP take over, has some scary talk in it
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According to?Bloomberg , the GOP and Trump, which are almost synonymous at this point, are putting together what Bloomberg informally calls a “shadow government” in order to move as fast as possible “when” Trump or another Republican is sworn in. It is breathtakingly aggressive, given that no Republican will cast a vote for any nominee, never mind Trump, for another year and a half, and – of course, we are still dealing with the violent attempted coup that occurred the last time a Republican was in office, Trump himself. One would have hoped that dealing with the investigation fallout would be the one and only thing on the GOP “to do” list regarding 2024.
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Due to how damaged Trump is, I doubt he would be an adequate tip of the spear for this plan 2024-5. On the other hand, De Santis, or another actor might fit this like a glove
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According to an intelligence briefing Daily Beast obtained, Moscow has been pursuing?influence operations intended to undermine Americans’ support of Ukraine—in part by blaming Western actions (though, weirdly, not Putin’s illegal invasion) for a looming food crisis tied to disruptions in Ukrainian grain shipments. “Outlets claimed … that Western nations prolonged the conflict by sending military aid to Ukraine,” reads the brief. “Outlets claimed that Western actions were causing global food prices to soar.”
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I.e. Russia WANTS results. It does NOT care whomever is the GOP POTUS is, in 2024, so long as that person is weak willed, but also NOT radioactive to the US population,.
The urgency of the Russian need for RESULTS will lead to an ANYONE but Trump moment in 2023-4, so long as the Russian needs for a POTUS deferential to the Kremlin is in place, 2025 is satisfied, That Russian need for RESULTS will tilt the field away from Trump and more for DeSantis, or someone similar to him.
https://www.businessinsider.com/cohen-trumps-alleged-witness-tampering-shows-hes-melting-down-2022-7
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Michael Cohen says Trump's alleged witness tampering in January 6 probe shows the former president is 'melting down'
Erin Snodgrass ?Jul 15, 2022, 6:50 PM
Michael Cohen.?Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen posited that former President Donald Trump is growing increasingly nervous about the January 6 panel's inquiry, as evidenced by the most recent allegations of witness tampering against him earlier this week.
The House Select committee investigating the insurrection and Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election ended its seventh public hearing earlier this week with a bombshell revelation — Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said?Trump, himself, tried to call a witness in the probe , prompting the unnamed person to decline the former president's call and alert their lawyer.
The revelation came just days after the committee first went public with?concerns about intimidation efforts from members of Trump's inner circle , citing text messages from the former president's allies attempting to pressure witnesses.
Cohen, who served as Trump's personal lawyer from 2006 to 2018, told?CNN's Don Lemon ?that Trump's alleged outreach to a witness signals the former president is "melting down."
"What it tells me is that he's extremely nervous. Why? Because first of all, in my tenure with him, I never saw him call anybody," Cohen said, noting that Trump usually had his employees make such calls on his behalf.
"He would never do it himself. I think the way I know him and as well as I know him, he doesn't trust anyone anymore, so he decided to do it himself," he added.
Cohen faced?Trump's wrath ?after he?testified against the former president in 2019 ?as part of the Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Cohen?agreed to cooperate ?with the inquiry after he?pleaded guilty to eight counts , including campaign finance violations and tax evasion.
After Cohen testified to Congress in early 2019, Trump and his then-personal attorney Rudy Giuliani unleashed a barrage of attacks against Cohen and his family, prompting Cohen's legal team to?accuse the president of witness intimidation.
Following the January 6 committee's first allegations of witness tampering earlier this month, Cohen told?The Washington Post ?that?Trump behaves like a "mob boss. "
"Giving an order without giving the order," Cohen said. "No fingerprints attached."
But as the congressional panel has presented?increasingly damning testimony ?in recent weeks — all while racking up a slew of?high-profile witnesses ?— Cohen thinks Trump is turning to desperate measures.
"He is nervous that everyone is jumping ship on him and worrying about themselves, which they should," Cohen told CNN. "I should've done that myself."
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Whereas t here is another narrative which I also ran across:
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https://www.politicususa.com/2022/07/15/trump-shadow-government.html
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Trump and GOP Already Forming ‘Shadow Government’ In Anticipation Of 2024 Win
Trump never expected to win in 2016 and was neither prepared nor competent in putting the structure and plans to take over when he did win. The GOP writ large, and too many Trump alumni aren’t about to let it happen in 2024. But the agenda and effort sound a bit more dark and nefarious, which is both terrifying but also presents Democrats with a possible opportunity.
According to?Bloomberg , the GOP and Trump, which are almost synonymous at this point, are putting together what Bloomberg informally calls a “shadow government” in order to move as fast as possible “when” Trump or another Republican is sworn in. It is breathtakingly aggressive, given that no Republican will cast a vote for any nominee, never mind Trump, for another year and a half, and – of course, we are still dealing with the violent attempted coup that occurred the last time a Republican was in office, Trump himself. One would have hoped that dealing with the investigation fallout would be the one and only thing on the GOP “to do” list regarding 2024.
It is not.?As Bloomberg?writes :
?The organization, based a short walk from the White House, is also developing policy proposals for an expected Republican-controlled House in November. The administration-in-waiting includes potential cabinet members, senior White House officials and even political appointees at federal agencies.
The specificity gives the operation a dark feel. First, there is obviously a sense of entitlement. When one would think that much more effort would be put into figuring out how to win 2024, the win feels like an assumption. With the 12th Amendment case going to the SCOTUS this fall, a case that could set loose Republican legislatures throughout the country to send the electors they choose, not the voters, it is hard not to become short of breath, worrying that they “know” they will be in office on January 20th, 2024.
And what plans require that much work ahead of time?
Last month, the organization announced that it had hired Michael Rigas, Trump’s former acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, a role akin to leading human resources for the federal government. His portfolio at America First includes putting together a blueprint the next Republican president can use to determine day-one executive actions and staffing at agencies.
Many in the country would have preferred this type of urgency as applied to the COVID situation in 2020 and less in preparation for the next administration. We know what happened in the last two weeks of the Trump administration. What is planned for the first two weeks of this operation?
The list of members and the incompetency of those within the group takes one’s breath away:
Nine former Trump cabinet officials, 17 former senior White House staffers, 35 former senior-level administration officials and three former governors, including Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, [along with] Larry Kudlow, former director of the National Economic Council; former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt; former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker; former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe; and Marc Lotter, a former special assistant to Trump.
It feels like time would be infinitely better spent making plans to just do well in the 2022 mid-terms and putting together an appealing message in 2024. There is a sense that there is a presumption about 2024, and that presumption is based on more than a “good feeling,” or the poor conditions in the country right now. It is hard to read about this organization and not “feel” as though there is something concrete on which all of this is based.
These are the same people that brought you January 6th. When one thinks of “concrete” reasons to believe that 2024 is assured, it would seem as though they know that 2024 won’t be a normal election, perhaps not even a real election.
But it provides the Democrats an opportunity, too. AFTER the 2022 mid-terms (Prioritized correctly), the Democratic party must do all it can to expose this operation and, to the greatest extent possible, learn its agenda and members. The country may well be both turned off and highly suspicious of such presumptuousness and aggressiveness. Moreover, the country may not like what is planned for January 20th, 2025. It may not align with what Trump or the alternative candidate is saying in a campaign. It is possible that what is being planned is terrifying. As an example, the declaration of a national emergency due to the border, giving the President extraordinary power in that first hour, is the type of terrifying action that may be on the agenda. Fascism first, not America first. Americans must know.
Something feels wrong. This isn’t normal. It also takes a lot of time and resources of the type that would be wasted in what people would presume to be a 50-50 proposition, at best, in any normal setting. And yet they believe it is very much worth the investment. We cannot make any guess as to where this confidence comes from (other than the fear of the SCOTUS case). We only know that these people cannot be trusted.
Democrats must make “finding out what’s wrong” a huge priority and then publicize it everywhere, aggressively, at the most effective point in time, likely very, very, early. Perhaps January 3rd, 2023.
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Also what if Putin, or a successor of Putin wants revenge for the Russia- Ukraine war ? Preparing for a weak GOP POTUS ? I think there is more than THAT going on;
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/22/2105577/-U-S-intelligence-brief-suggests-Putin-is-waiting-for-another-weak-willed-Republican-to-be-president
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U.S. intelligence brief suggests Putin is waiting for another?weak-willed?Republican to be president
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In the early days of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, members of the willfully obtuse community wondered why Vladimir Putin would choose this moment to strike. After all, the raft of sanctions the Biden-led coalition of Western?allies had promised made Putin’s misadventure seem utterly foolhardy and borderline suicidal.
Many on the right speculated that Putin waited for Trump’s?ouster?because Putin was afraid of him. That is a weird thing to say, considering?Putin did his utmost to get Trump reelected . If Trump was the one thing standing in the way of Putin’s long-awaited conquest of Ukraine, Putin would have thrown his support behind Joe Biden, not Trump. Putin also likely knew that Trump had?hoped to withdraw the U.S. from NATO?during his second term —a move that would have allowed Putin to scarf down ex-Soviet republics like Trump crushes Hot Pockets.
No, it seemed obvious—to me, anyway—that Putin was taking a calculated risk. He knew his invasion would pose challenges for a Biden administration already buffeted by rising gas prices and other economic headwinds, and he likely figured he could wait out sanctions until the economic disruption he’d caused began to fray our alliances and—even better—return?a weak-willed Republican (either Trump or someone equally as venal and shallow) to the White House.
Well, now there’s reporting to suggest that theory was spot-on.?The Daily Beast has obtained a U.S. intelligence bulletin ?indicating that Putin is once again brain-fucking the U.S. populace to serve his own depraved ends. The only question: Will it work this time?
[R]ather than counting on exiting the political scene in dramatic fashion, Putin might be betting that he can somehow outlast his detractors as well as the Biden Administration, whose security assistance for Ukraine has been pivotal in keeping a Russian win at bay. And part of Putin’s plot to outlive the Biden administration is likely to include influence operations aimed at securing an American political environment that’s more favorable to his goals, former CIA and Department of Homeland Security officials told The Daily Beast.
That scheme will inevitably aim to influence voters participating in both the midterms and the presidential election in 2024 in an attempt to get candidates elected who are somehow more sympathetic to Putin, according to Daniel Hoffman, a former CIA Moscow chief of station.
“He’s going to try really, really hard to… exacerbate those isolationist tendencies and kind of induce us to question, ‘Why are we supporting Ukraine?’” Hoffman said. “He’s trying to dilute U.S. support for [Ukrainian President] Zelenskyy.”
According to an intelligence briefing Daily Beast obtained, Moscow has been pursuing?influence operations intended to undermine Americans’ support of Ukraine—in part by blaming Western actions (though, weirdly, not Putin’s illegal invasion) for a looming food crisis tied to disruptions in Ukrainian grain shipments. “Outlets claimed … that Western nations prolonged the conflict by sending military aid to Ukraine,” reads the brief. “Outlets claimed that Western actions were causing global food prices to soar.”
Of course, the battle for Ukraine’s sovereignty is far more consequential than a temporary spike in domestic gas prices. It’s nothing less than a fateful test of wills between the free world and the corrupt forces of tyranny, brutality, and kleptocracy. And no doubt fellow autocrats around the world are closely watching how America reacts—and whether the West follows through on its commitments. But Putin has likely reasoned—perhaps correctly—that a country that could elevate a dyspeptic game show host and decades-old punchline to the highest office in the land might eagerly line up for another bracing dose of snake oil.
“Putin’s thinking: ‘I can outlast all you people.?And if I get this to 2024, I might get a Republican who doesn’t feel like Joe Biden,’” Hoffman, the CIA Moscow chief, said. “They’re students of American politics. Of course he’s going to look at the midterms and he’s looking at anybody who’s … against the war in Ukraine.”
Oh, so they might get someone who doesn’t think like Joe Biden …?or any other lucid human, for that matter. Fortunately for Putin, America?still has a glut of those characters and—well, lookee here!—they’re almost all Republicans . Meanwhile, J.D. Vance, the Trump-endorsed candidate for the Ohio?Senate seat being vacated by Rob Portman, has openly declared that he?doesn’t really give a shit about Ukraine . And Fox News’ twerpy Goebbels, Tucker Carlson,?has been a consistent favorite among Putin’s propagandists .??
In fact, the Kremlin is already preparing to ratfuck the midterms with an eye toward further dividing our country. “We expect Russian interference in the upcoming 2022 midterm elections, as Russia views this activity as an equitable response to perceived actions by Washington and an opportunity to both undermine U.S. global standing and influence U.S. decision-making,” a June?intelligence brief, which was?first reported by CNN , stated.?
And according to The Daily Beast, the DHS expects Russia to continue using troll farms and other tools to further undermine our democracy: “We assess that Russia will continue to malign influence and interference activities designed to undermine U.S. global prestige, sow division among the American public, undermine faith in U.S. democratic institutions, and portray Russia as a global power.”
So we have a stark choice. We’re either a real democracy that truly embraces?democratic norms and values, or we can vote in more Republicans.
It’s time for Americans to ask themselves “what would Putin do/want?” and then resolve to do the opposite. If not, the ruthless and corrupt Trump-Putin Axis?will give Eastern Europe—and much of the rest of the world, no doubt—the ugliest makeover in history.
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