"Trump did not walk into the White House alone. He stormed in with a promise to "drain the swamp," but trailing in his shadow was Jared Kushner, carrying a tangled web of private financial networks, offshore holdings, and foreign capital so deeply embedded it functioned like a quiet engine at the heart of the presidency. Years later, FBI documents released alongside the Epstein files crystallised the danger, with a Confidential Human Source (CHS) alleging that Trump had been compromised by Israel, and that Kushner was the true centre of gravity, orchestrating both the Trump Organisation and the White House from within.
This is not theatre. Intelligence reporting rarely accuses outright; it maps vulnerability, flags leverage, and exposes the invisible pathways through which foreign influence can seep into the corridors of American power, remaining unnoticed, unchallenged, and structurally unstoppable.
Philip Giraldi
Strategic Culture
Maria Butina is in jail for doing nothing
while Jared Kushner, who needed a godfathered security clearance due to
his close Israeli ties, struts through the White House as senior advisor
to the president.
The Mueller Special Counsel inquiry is far from over even though a
final report on its findings has been issued. Although the investigation
had a mandate to explore all aspects of the alleged Russian
interference in the 2016 US election, from the start the focus was on
the possibility that some members of the Trump campaign had colluded
with the Kremlin to influence the outcome of the election to favor the
GOP candidate. Even though that could not be demonstrated, many
prominent Trump critics, to include Laurence Tribe of the Harvard Law
School, are demanding that
the investigation continue until Congress has discovered “the full
facts of Russia’s interference [to include] the ways in which that
interference is continuing in anticipation of 2020, and the full story
of how the president and his team welcomed, benefited from, repaid, and
obstructed lawful investigation into that interference and the
president’s cooperation with it.”
Tribe should perhaps read the report more carefully. While it does
indeed confirm some Russian meddling, it does not demonstrate that
anyone in the Trump circle benefited from it or cooperated with it. The
objective currently being promoted by dedicated Trump critics like Tribe
is to make a case to impeach the president based on the alleged
enormity of the Russian activity, which is not borne out by the facts:
the Russian role was intermittent, small scale and basically
ineffective.
One interesting aspect of the Mueller inquiry and the ongoing
Russophobia that it has generated is the essential hypocrisy of the
Washington Establishment. It is generally agreed that whatever Russia
actually did, it did not affect the outcome of the election. That the
Kremlin was using intelligence resources to act against Hillary Clinton
should surprise no one as she described Russian President Vladimir Putin
as Hitler and also made clear that she would be taking a very hard line
against Moscow.
The anti-Russia frenzy in Washington generated by the vengeful Democrats
and an Establishment fearful of a loss of privilege and entitlement
claimed a number of victims. Among them was Russian citizen Maria
Butina, who has a court date and will very likely be sentenced tomorrow.
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