NSC ex-staffers memo
By James Downie
August 11 at 10:47 AM
On Thursday, Foreign Policy published a .. memo .. by a former staffer on .. Trump’s National Security Council. The author .. was forced out last month by national security adviser H.R. McMaster for composing it. The memo contends that the president is the target of a vast conspiracy spearheaded by so-called cultural Marxists, who have allied with Islamists and captured (among other groups) the media, the deep state, academia, “global corporatists” and leaders of both parties ... Trump .. was "furious" at Higgins’s removal ...
The president’s enemies, Higgins claims, are employing "political warfare as understood by the Maoist Insurgency model." Even Republican leaders have been subjugated, Higgins says, because they are "more afraid of being accused of being called a racist, sexist, homophobe or lslamophobe than of failing to enforce their oaths to 'support and defend the Constitution'" ... He concludes .. "The recent turn of events give rise to the observation that the defense of President Trump is the defense of America."
... The memo’s first footnote cites a JBS member’s interview with a Soviet defector on "how Jewish Marxist ideology is destabilizing the economy" ...
Trump’s attraction to an alternate reality where he is the target of the political elite, the banking elite, Marxists, the Islamic State, the deep state and professors from coast to coast fits in nicely with one of his rules: Nothing is ever his fault. He blamed a botched raid in Yemen on "the generals." He blamed the failure of his Trump Shuttle airline on the economy. He blamed his failures in Atlantic City on two executives who died working for him. Facing declining poll numbers and an utter failure to "drain the swamp" or repeal major Obama-era legislation, the president once again has resorted to playing the victim ...
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