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“Who, exactly, is running the country?” wonders Miranda Devine, noting that Joe Biden “can’t remember where he is or what he’s meant to be doing at any given moment,” and the presence of Jill Biden at a recent cabinet meeting. “Whether it’s Jill or someone else running the country, the bottom line is that we don’t have a functional president. This is a constitutional crisis.”
In similar style, Victor Davis Hanson observes Joe Biden “closing up shop at noon for his nap and early bedtime,” and Kamala Harris, the “incompetent and hopeless wannabe California radical.” That prompts the historian to wonder, “So, again, who or what now governs America?” and could our “real rulers be the stealth cabal of Democratic grandees and billionaire donors who arranged the Biden presidency?” Recent years have rendered key clues, such as the “The Obama Factor,” David Samuels’ August 2, 2023 interview with David Garrow.
In 2017, the Pulitzer Prize winner revealed that Dreams from My Father was a novel, not an autobiography or a memoir. “He wants people to believe his story,” Garrow told Samuels, “for me to conclude that Dreams from My Father was historical fiction – oh God, did that infuriate him.”
The Dreams author, Garrow wrote, was a “composite character,” and for Samuels, “there was something about this “fictional character that he created actually becoming president that helped precipitate the disaster that we are living through now.” On Iran, for example, “Joe Biden is not running that part of his administration. Obama is. He doesn’t even have to pick up the phone because all of his people are already inside the White House.” And as the liberal Tablet editor explained, the control was far more extensive:
“Brett McGurk. Dan Shapiro in Israel. Lisa Monaco in Justice. Susan Rice running domestic policy. It’s turtles all the way down. There are obviously large parts of White House policymaking that belong to Barack Obama because they’re staffed by his people, who worked for him and no doubt report back to him. Personnel is policy, as they say in Washington. Which to me is a very odd and kind of spooky arrangement. Spooky, because it is happening outside the constitutional framework of the U.S. government, and yet somehow it’s been placed off the list of permitted subjects to report on.”
The “Biden-Harris administration” is the composite character’s third term, with support from allies such as CIA boss John Brennan, author of the 2020 Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies at Home and Abroad. Note the order in the subtitle. The CIA deals with foreign adversaries but the author first deploys against enemies “at home.” Brennan was signatory to the letter of 51 “intelligence community” heavyweights, calling the Hunter Biden laptop “Russian disinformation,” which he knew was untrue.
Brennan qualifies as one of those who “arranged the Biden presidency,” and like the composite character who selected him, Brennan is also an Islamist. He contends that jihad is “a holy struggle in pursuit of a moral goal” and had nothing to do with “violence” against non-Muslims, a view contradicted by 1400 years of history. For this pair, Islam is peaceful and benign, and the true terrorists are the domestic political opposition, people who respect the Constitution, and want the nation to be great.
Brennan lets slip that he was an Obama contributor, and “wanted to explore other ways to help him get elected.” Brennan told Clinton intel briefer Anthony Lake “there is something I really admire about Obama and I am interested in helping if I can.” Lake responded, “He’s the real deal, John, and it would be great if you could help his campaign by sharing your intelligence and counterterrorism experience.”
Brennan touts CIA officers as the “best experts in the world on al-Qa’ida,” yet the agency failed to prevent the events of September 11, 2001, the worst attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor in 1941. On the other hand, the CIA and FBI were successful mounting covert operations against candidate and President Trump. Brennan bundled the Biden laptop with the Russia hoax and that played a role in arranging the Biden presidency.
According to former CIA analyst John Gentry, author of Neutering the CIA: Why U.S. Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences, many intelligence officers have been involved in “anti-Trump activities.” And as the author notes:
“The activism receded markedly after Joe Biden became president in 2021, making it even clearer that the politicization of intelligence was aimed at Trump. While it is in remission, the changes in the political culture of some IC agencies that triggered the attacks on Trump remain intact, available for reactivation in the event of another serious candidacy by Trump or the election of another Republican president.”
A serious candidacy by Trump is now going on, so Brennan and company might be gearing up an October surprise or two. Also on the active side is former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, author of The Art of Power. In 2020 Pelosi was in Joe Biden’s corner but in 2024 she orchestrated Biden’s exit from the ticket. As the people should know, Pelosi, Brennan and Obama all boast Stalinist connections.
The composite character’s beloved “Frank,” in Dreams from My Father, is the Communist Frank Marshall Davis, who joined the Communist Party during the Stalin Era and dedicated his life to the all-white dictatorship of the USSR. For his part, John Brennan wanted a Stalinist to be president of the United States.
In 1976, the Fordham University student voted for Communist Party candidate Gus Hall. That disqualified Brennan for any intelligence job, but the CIA hired him in 1980 and in 2013 the composite character president tapped him to run the place. In 2020, Brennan deployed against domestic “enemies” like President Trump.
As Joshua Muravchik noted, Nancy Pelosi’s “Favorite Stalinist,” was Harry Bridges, a member of the Communist Party’s central committee and like Davis a de-facto Soviet agent. That was fully known at the time of Bridges’ death in 1990, but in 2001 in the Congressional Record, Rep. Pelosi described the Stalinist as “arguably the most significant labor leader of the twentieth century,” who was “beloved by the workers of this Nation, and recognized as one of the most important labor leaders in the world.”
As Muravchik recalled, Pelosi “delivered a similar encomium to another prominent Bay Area Stalin fan, Vivian Hallinan, whose husband [Vincent Hallinan] was Bridges’ lawyer and the 1952 candidate for president of the Communist-front Progressive party.” According to coincidence theory, these attachments have nothing to do with an administration known for show trials, imprisonment without trial, press censorship, and deploying the organs of the state against the people in the best Stalinist style.
In recent months there have been two assassination attempts against former president and current candidate Donald Trump, one nearly succeeding. After the second attempt, Joe Biden appeared on “The View,” swatting the table after Whoopi Goldberg compared Trump to a bug. Also after the second assassination attempt, Biden’s commerce secretary Gina Raimondo appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and proclaimed “let’s extinguish him [Trump] for good.” Raimondo claimed she meant “vote him out,” but the language recalled the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan comparing Jews to “termites,” and everybody knew what he meant.
According to coincidence theory, the assassination attempts are pure happenstance, and can have no relation to a Stalinist junta sending out signals to the Lee Harvey Oswalds and Ramon Mercaders now on the prowl. Under this junta, more assassination attempts on Trump, and violence against the people, would come as no surprise.