No collusion! There was no collusion, none, no collusion. Notice Trump rarely recalls who he supposedly colluded with, but instead claims across the board, no one colludes with him, except maybe Twitter, they just LOVE Trump. As we all suspected, he isn’t smart enough to conspire with anyone vaguely intelligent (except Treasury Secretary Mark Mnuchin). Nor are even modestly clever psychopaths jumping to bring Trump into the loop. Trump is too stupid to collude. He would just blow it with a string of late-night tweets bragging about his latest big-deal collusion.
Psychopaths around the globe, in Congress, in Petroleum and Pharmaceutical industry board rooms, leaders in positions of power over women, children, minorities, they all know precisely what they see in Trump. They see a mark, ready and willing to do their bidding. Trump isn’t a psychopath; he doesn’t pass the 4-foot measuring stick to ride the roller coaster of psychopathy. However, psychopaths in industry and government, extremist political circles, billionaires with axes to grind, all lined up around the block to support (and guide) him. And fund him.
I wonder how the Trump Campaign recognized and exploited its target audiences so effectively? Early on I credited Trump and others with the skills of a seasoned psychopath. In hindsight, I admit I clearly missed the mark. The Trump Campaign did receive excellent advice, from psychopaths to be named, well, mostly never.
The difference between a fool and his handlers? Handlers don’t Tweet. They hire many operatives for that. Fake social media accounts with English-sounding names push big red social and political “hot” buttons. They declare that Trump has all the right answers and everyone else is fake news.
That’s why I have to amend my prior article: Trump is too stupid to be in the psychopath club. He has, however, proved himself a terrific mark, for true psychopaths in power and those seeking power.
Consider the legendary and thoroughly investigated “Russia meeting” in Trump Tower, June 2016. Russian operatives set up a meeting with the Trump campaign, offering damaging evidence against Trump’s main opponent in the 2016 Presidential election, Hillary Clinton. After meeting Trump’s close advisors Don Jr., Rob Goldstone, Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, and others eager to initiate a big deal for the campaign, the Russians get cold feet. Suddenly Don Jr. discovers to his chagrin that Russian lawyer and operative Natalia Veselnitskaya changes the subject of the meeting to Russian adoptions. I think the Russians realized that every Trump agent would be bragging to anyone who would listen about the great conspiracy with a “secret Russian source.” They were courting a nest of idiots. Since not much about that meeting has remained a secret, the Russians might have been right. Anyway, Russia wisely decided to make their own decisions about the stolen Clinton emails. Their choice of James Comey to release the email scandal less than 2 weeks before the Presidential election worked much more successfully.
Trump’s denial of collusion, repeated 6,354 times, made the word “collusion” synonymous with “stupid.” Clearly, no one with one minute of covert ops experience would get near Trump or any of his closest staff. The Russians politely showed the Trump campaign, “it’s no problem, we’ll take it from here.”
From that point on, the Trump campaign didn’t need to be smart. The Russians and their misinformation factories filled the minds and social media accounts of the American disenfranchised and angry conservative base that everything, literally everything, is a liberal plot. Except Donald Trump.
And where did the psychopathic operatives find so many willing, naïve followers for Trump? They did what none of the opponents of Donald Trump would dare to do. They looked. They listened. Then, they filled social media with made-up stories and conspiracies that their target audience eagerly and desperately wanted to believe. The sympathetic (and frequently purchased) media outlets “closer” to the mainstream repeated what people wanted to hear. And they all pointed to Trump as the conservative savior.
Trump didn’t collude because election meddlers didn’t bring him inside. The safer strategy was to let Trump sit back and watch it happen. Knowing what we now know about the President, can we blame the Russians? Does anyone expect Russia covert ops do to anything differently to get Trump re-elected in the 2020 Presidential election? Even Trump is smart enough to know this answer.
Makin’ America Great Again. Remember when all Western developed nations were populated with mostly white males, the women waited in the parlor, and the Help was kept in their place? Really, it was like that before, don’t you believe us? Just look to Berlin in 1937, now there was a country run by a true-blooded psychopath. Ahh, the good old days.
