by Lloyd Billingsley
About the assassination attempts on Donald Trump, and when did he know it?
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In the wake of the second attempt on his life, Donald Trump flagged the “highly inflammatory language” Democrats have deployed against him, such as the charges of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris that the former president is a threat to democracy and so forth. When it comes to inflammatory language and outright hatred, it’s hard to top former CIA director John Brennan, author of Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies at Home and Abroad. Note the order in the subtitle.
The CIA is tasked to counter foreign threats to the nation, but with Brennan, CIA boss from 2013-17, the enemies are at home and there is no greater threat than Donald Trump. Brennan “carried a mental catalog of the many unfavorable impressions of Mr. Trump I had accumulated over the previous decades” a man relying on “intimidation, untruths, ruthless litigation and bankruptcy laws.” For Brennan, “no individual came close to Trump’s dishonesty, unabashed self-aggrandizement, and demagogic rhetoric.”
After Trump trounced Republican opponents in the primaries “it was undeniable that he possessed a charisma that allowed him to repackage his political snake oil as a magical national exlixir.” Brennan was “shocked at his electoral college victory” but could not understand how so many voters could back him for president. Nothing here about the damage done to the nation by the composite character president David Garrow described in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. As his CIA boss sees it, the voters must have been tricked.
Brennan decides that “Vladimir Putin personally ordered the influence campaign to boost Donald Trump’s election prospects while discrediting Hillary Clinton so that her anticipated presidency would be crippled from the start.” Undaunted recycles the Russia hoax, but there’s more to Brennan’s hatred of Trump.
The former CIA boss, who describes Crossfire Hurricane as “an ongoing and very sensitive operation,” professes to know nothing about Andrew McCabe’s actions, but exploded with anger when Trump fired McCabe just short of retirement. Brennan told his wife that Trump is “evil, despicable, and vile” and posted a tweet proclaiming:
“When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may destroy Andy McCabe but you will not destroy America. America will triumph over you.”
With Brennan it’s personal, but as Undaunted makes clear, it’s also about business. Like Obama, Brennan is an Islamist, regarding jihad as “a holy struggle in pursuit of a moral goal” and having nothing to do with violence and terrorist attacks.
President Trump, by contrast, not only called out “radical Islamic terrorism” but in 2019 took out Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder and leader of ISIS, the most ruthless and violent terror organization anywhere in the world.” In early 2020, Trump took out Iran’s Qasem Soleimani, “the number-one terrorist anywhere in the world.” Neither terrorist is mentioned in Undaunted but Trump’s takedowns surely infuriated Brennan, who had an even bigger policy beef with the president.
Brennan says he will “always regard the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which reversed Iran’s determination to obtain nuclear weapons capabilities, to be one of the Obama Administration’s crowning achievements.” Like Obama, Brennan touts the deal as a “tremendous boon to Israel’s security.”
President Trump took the United States out of the Iran deal which, he contended, “failed to protect America’s national security interests” and “enriched the Iranian regime and enabled its malign behavior, while at best delaying its ability to pursue nuclear weapons and allowing it to preserve nuclear research and development.” That doubtless got to Brennan, enraged when Trump lifted his security clearance.
In 2020, when Undaunted was published, Brennan says “my top-secret code-word clearances remain intact. I still have a CIA badge that allows me to access CIA facilities.” That same year, Brennan was signatory to the letter proclaiming Hunter Biden’s laptop “Russian disinformation.” Undaunted doesn’t cover that operation but in other ways the author tips his hand.
In 1976, presidential candidates included Democrat Jimmy Carter, former Democrat and independent Eugene McCarthy, Libertarian Roger MacBride Ben Bubar of the Prohibition Party, Socialist Party USA candidate Frank Zeidler, and Lester Maddox of the American Independent Party. Brennan voted for Gus Hall of the Communist Party USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of the USSR.
The CIA never should have hired Brennan in the first place, but in 2013 the composite character president put him in charge. As it happens, Obama’s beloved “Frank” from Dreams from My Father was Frank Marshall Davis, the black Communist who dedicated his life to the USSR’s all-white Stalinist dictatorship. According to coincidence theory, these connections are pure happenstance and mean nothing.
Brennan denies he converted to Islam while posted in the Middle East, but he was angry with Sen. Arlen Specter for drinking a Pepsi during Ramadan in full sight of the Saudis. “I felt like throttling him right there,” Brennan says, “and might have if Prince Turki had not suddenly appeared at the entrance to personally greet the senator,” but it’s not just about Spector.
“I have found in recent years,” Brennan explains, “that increasing nationalism, nativism, isolationism, and xenophobia within too many segments of American society have made insensitivity such as Senator Spector’s all too prevalent, including at the highest levels of our government.” So the CIA man has a nasty temper and loathes the American people, not good traits for a director of the CIA, now deployed on the home front.
According to former CIA analyst John Gentry, author of Neutering the CIA: Why U.S. Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences, “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.” As Trump mounts a serious candidacy, Obama seeks a fourth term through Kamala Harris, Iran works three shifts to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons, and after 10/7 Israel is under relentless attack.
As the election approaches, mysterious gunmen have made two attempts to kill Donald Trump, the first nearly succeeding. John Brennan still retains his top-secret clearance, CIA badge, and CIA access. At first opportunity, Congress should put Brennan under oath and find out what he knew and when he knew it.
Lloyd Billingsley is the author of Yes I Con: United Fakes of America, Barack ‘Em Up: A
Literary Investigation, Hollywood Party, and numerous other works.
Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/what-did-john-brennan-know/
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