Donald Trump is NOT a 'threat to the deep state'. Here is his warmongering record.
Following the shooting, Trump's supporters claim he is a "threat to the US deep state". But in reality, he is a warmonger who appointed CIA officials and neocons to run his hawkish foreign policy.
Following a shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump's supporters have portrayed him as a so-called "threat to the US deep state". But in reality, Trump was a warmonger as president, and appointed top CIA officials and neoconservatives to run his foreign policy.
In the following video and podcast, Ben Norton reviews Trump's support for Israel and Ukraine and his aggressive policies against China, Russia, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba.
Video
Podcast
Timecode of the topics discussed
0:00 (Clips) Trump on Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine
0:32 US politics & bipartisan war crimes
3:29 Alleged assassination attempt against Trump
7:13 Trump's warmongering foreign policy: a summary
11:35 Israel - Palestine
16:56 Trump proposed bombing Russia & China
17:27 Russiagate
18:01 Trump tore up 2 arms treaties with Russia
18:55 Ukraine
20:33 (Clip) Trump boasts of arming Ukraine
20:56 Trump vs Obama on Ukraine weapons
23:02 NATO
24:24 "We're at war with China"
26:24 Trade war & new cold war on China
28:44 Democrats vs Republicans on Russia & China
29:48 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA)
30:44 Assassination of Qasem Soleimani
31:20 Trump's war on Iraq
32:48 US hypocrisy on "political violence"
34:31 Syria
35:00 (Clip) Trump brags of taking Syria's oil
35:27 Afghanistan war & minerals
37:06 Trump wanted to take oil from Libya & Iraq too
38:15 Yemen
39:24 Trump plans to attack Mexico
41:06 Bolivia coup
41:54 Elon Musk & Bolivia's lithium
43:24 Venezuela
44:06 (Clip) Trump on "taking over" Venezuela
44:18 Venezuela coup attempt
46:00 Nicaragua coup attempt
46:37 Elliott Abrams
47:53 Cuba blockade & sanctions
50:09 Tax cuts for the rich
51:54 Billionaires for fellow billionaire Trump
53:16 Outro
Close friend of big oil and big animal ag (sister to big pharma); climate change denying Trump is the President of choice for these environment and health destroying industries. The idea that he's the enemy of the deep state is absurd.
Trump is, of course, a hideous politician and is clearly criminal as you describe with his foreign policy record. However, he does articulate, often incoherently, policy prescriptions unpopular with the deep state - against (some) forever wars, against the offshoring of industry, hostility to NATO (at least the existing configuration), against mass migration. Also he is less likely to be compliant to the deep state compared to the usual machine politicians. Although clearly he was betrayed by many of the deep state appointees he made in his first term who plotted against him. He is also incompetent and unpredictable and unable to implement many of his actual policies consistently. However, it is, to my mind undeniable that there is enormous hostility and hatred towards him from the Democratic establishment who are closely linked with the deep state. It seems highly likely to me that they would attempt to kill him and have been fostering an atmosphere in which an assassination attempt was highly probable. That doesn't mean Trump is a hero or is likely to be a better president. But Ben you seem upset that people point out the criminality of the assassination plot.