Donald Trump's craven betrayals

Neoliberal Feudalism's excellent history of Trump's campaign and administration made me remember why I do not like or trust Don the Con

Note to readers: This article is an expression of some of my thoughts about Donald Trump. It is not meant to convince you not to vote for him or not to vote at all. Do not let anyone, including me, influence your decision about whom to vote for or to vote at all. Make up your own mind based on your own conscience and convictions.

I’ve seen a lot of content on Substack since I’ve been on this platform, but occasionally I come across something that is particularly notable. Neoliberal Feudalism’s second part of the history of Trump and his presidency is one of the best articles I’ve seen on Substack in a long time. Some authors go on forever, filling their articles with endless blah-blah, but NR’s history is worth every word used to create it. It is deep, thorough, and well-researched.

In this article, I’m going to share some of my thoughts about NF’s history. However, before you read my scribblings, leave this page and go read NF’s article right now. Make yourself a cup of your favorite beverage and savor every word. When you are done, come back here and read this article.

Okay, with that out of the way, I’ll begin by noting that the parts of the article that resonated with me the most were Trump's betrayals of those who supported him. And his embracing of those who were out to get him. So that is what I’ve focused on in this article. If you are a Trump supporter, take a deep breath and just roll with it. 😉

The three earliest betrayals came when Trump booted General Flynn, Chris Christie, and Steve Bannon out of his government, and turned control over to his idiot daughter and her corrupt husband Jared Kushner. Why did he bring Kushner and Ivanka into his government? Who the hell knows, but it was one of the stupidest things Trump could have done, and it cost him dearly over the next four years as his base came to despise both of them.

In the case of General Flynn, Trump slit his own throat by letting Flynn go, as Flynn was one of the few people that could have helped protect him from his enemies:

Also note that the NSC was the only institution that could have offered a measure of protection against the FBI coup attempt “counterintelligence operation”, which is why they targeted Mike Flynn as a top priority (to be discussed).

On January 22, 2017 globalist, nepotistic Jared Kushner was sworn in as Senior White House advisor, while Mike Flynn was sworn in as the National Security Advisor. Because of Flynn’s experience, knowledge, honesty and integrity, he was the top target of the establishment to take out. The FBI entrapped him claiming they just wanted a meet-and-greed, then claimed that he misled Vice President Mike Pence (who, as a deep state operative, was secretly working in tandem with the FBI) and others about the nature and content of his standard communications with Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak. Robin Townly, a Mike Flynn ally and NSC director, was then denied high-level security clearance by the establishment and forced from the NSC. On February 13, 2017, Flynn himself was forced to resign — removing the most important impediment against the launch of the false Russiagate scam that would be used as the “insurance policy” to paralyze Trump’s administration.

Trump’s abandonment of Flynn was one of the first clues that Trump had zero loyalty to the people who supported him, and who took risks in their careers to work for him. For me, the Flynn thing was one of the first times I started to wonder about Trump, and I began to realize that Trump wasn’t his character on The Apprentice. In other words, Trump wasn’t the slick operator I had expected him to be, and Flynn’s resignation showed that Trump had no idea what he was up against.

Trump also had no loyalty to Chris Christie either:

Chris Christie, one of Trump’s primary opponents who later endorsed him, was initially put in charge of Trump’s transition team on May 9, 2016; apparently this was a placeholder as almost no one expected Trump to actually win, although Christie treated the job seriously. By October, it was reported the transition team had grown to more than 100 staff, many of whom were policy experts brought on to compensate for a dearth of policy staff employed by the Trump campaign. The election was held on November 8, 2016 and only three days later on November 11 Christie was removed and Trump’s children along with Jared Kushner were named to the transition executive committee. On the same day, Christie's close associates Richard Bagger and Bill Palatucci were both removed by Trump from the transition team. Globalist Vice President Mike Pence was nominally put in charge of the transition and eventually the truth came out: it was Jared Kushner who had Christie fired because Christie had prosecuted Kushner’s father more than a decade prior.

Trump booted Chris Christie at the behest of Jared Kushner, because Christie had prosecuted Kushner’s criminal father. I am no fan of Chris Christie, but he had done his best to assist Trump’s transition, and for all his work, he got booted out on his ass. As we all know now, this is what you can expect from Trump after you put yourself at risk for him. Say what you will about Christie; he did his best in the transition role and certainly deserved better treatment than he got from Trump.

Steve Bannon also got run out of Trump’s administration because of Jarvanka:

Regarding Bannon specifically, he had a giant ego and wanted to take credit for Trump’s achievements, and he also loved stirring the pot of drama and backstabbed the administration out of anger at being sidelined on his way out by talking to establishment leftist author Michael Wolff - in other words, he seemed to be a pretty bad employee. But it’s also clear that the populist agenda was being undermined quite intensely. It’s hard to separate good from bad with him, although there was no one else who cared so passionately about actually fulfilling the agenda that Trump ran on. Look at Bannon’s whiteboard of ideas, this was a creative guy who cared

I’ve always sort of rolled my eyes at Bannon, whom I considered a great bullshitter, but not somebody I would trust if I could help it. Yet, give him his due; he was early on the Trump Train and will soon be put in jail for not cooperating with the J6 circus in Congress. Despite being booted out of the administration, Bannon is willing to go to jail for his loyalty to Trump. So it’s safe to say that he too deserved better than he got.

Speaking of J6, the fate of the J6 political prisoners is another betrayal by Trump. They are the people who were outside the government that he betrayed. I’ve harped on that before in my open letter to Trump, so I won’t get too far into it here. But the bottom line is that Trump called the J6’ers to the imperial capital and then sent them into a trap. He then abandoned them to their fate while taking off to Florida.

Do I even need to bring up Ashley Babbitt here? He didn’t speak her name for six months after she died, and he only did it when it became politically advantageous for him to do so. Babbitt didn’t strike me as the brightest bulb in the universe for going anywhere near the Capitol Building, but she certainly deserved better from Trump since she took a bullet for him.

What you see here is a clear pattern of behavior by Trump. He expects loyalty from anyone who works for him, but then doesn’t return that loyalty. The only exceptions I can find to this are his family members. Everybody else who works for him runs the risk of being abandoned to their fate when things get tough, and Trump looks the other way while his supporters get screwed over.

Do any of you remember that, after Trump first took office, he had a website that encouraged his supporters to come to Washington, DC, to work for him? I don’t know how many people applied, but I hope they are all okay if they went through with it. You couldn’t pay me enough to get anywhere near the imperial capital, and I certainly wouldn’t put myself at risk to go there and work for Donald Trump.

Ironically, there was one person who was at risk, but who decided not to fight for Trump and bowed out of being involved with a certain investigation. Can you guess who it was? Yes, Jeff Sessions!

Department of Justice officials came to Sessions and told him that he had a conflict of interest as an early Trump supporter and because of two incidental, forgettable interactions with the Ambassador from Russia which he had forgotten about when asked about it at his confirmation hearing. He was advised to recuse himself from any investigation into Trump by the Department of Justice. Meanwhile another point of leverage was pursued: in March 2017, Senators asked the FBI to conduct a criminal perjury investigation into Sessions based on these two brief, forgettable interactions. Deputy Director Andrew McCabe assigned FBI agents to investigate. (McCabe was later fired for lying under oath with a mountain of evidence about leaking spun narratives damaging to Trump. Because of the sympathy in D.C. for his criminal actions, his firing was later reversed and his legal fees paid for by the government.)

Sessions acquiesced to the demands of the DOJ officials and recused himself from their investigation into Trump’s Russia connections. If he hadn’t have done this the perjury investigation would have been used to force him out; one way or another he would have been made to recuse. Trump was furious, rightly considering this an act of deep betrayal by Sessions; he would never have appointed a man as head of the Department of Justice if he had known he would be so willing to roll over for one’s enemies. Sessions would later lose his attempt to run again for Senate because of his lack of support from the Republican base which turned on him due to his betrayal.

Sessions bowed to the inevitable, and refused to put himself at risk for Trump. Notice how Trump was pissed off about it? Talk about gall on Trump’s part! Where did he get off being angry at Sessions when Trump himself never showed any loyalty to anybody besides his family?

HA HA HA HA! When I look back at it now, I’m glad Sessions did what he did. 😂

Good for him! It cost him his political career, but who cares? He saved himself and screwed Trump in the process, which is far more than the J6 political prisoners or anyone else was able to do after Trump abandoned them.

If you ask me, Jeff Sessions will someday be viewed as a brilliant operator. He saw the handwriting on the wall and refused to accept the possibility of going to jail for Don the Con. I know all the MAGA people hate Sessions’ guts to this very day, but he made a smart move and removed himself from the line of fire. Because Trump would not have helped him in any way and would have sacrificed him the same way he sacrificed Flynn.

I know some of you who are reading this are likely not happy about some of the things I’ve said, but remember that Donald Trump brought a lot of his problems on himself. By not supporting his own people and letting his enemies pick them off one by one, he telegraphed to everybody watching that he was weak. He could be rolled, and he could not be trusted by his own supporters. He never had their backs, but he always expected them to have his! What a hypocrite! 🙄

And now I will close this article with two polls to see what you guys think:

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