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Killing Trump Is Deep State's 'Plan C,' Warns Adviser Roger Stone
[American Thinker] It's a shocking claim made by a political insider: the Deep State is so opposed to draining the swamp that it will, if necessary, kill President Trump to prevent it.Roger Stone, a longtime Trump adviser and confidant, certainly knows his way around Washington, having worked as a senior campaign aide to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Senator Bob Dole as well as held many other political positions. This proximity to the Deep State is what makes his claim, expressed in a recent wide-ranging interview with The New American magazine's Alex Newman, that much more eyebrow-raising. Stone outlined three plans the Deep State has for eliminating the president, as Newman relates: The Deep State's "Plan A," Stone said, is the imploding "investigation" into alleged "Russian collusion" by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. If and when that fails, which Stone suggested was likely, the establishment would move to "Plan B." In essence, that plot would involve trying to get a majority of Trump's [C]abinet to declare him unfit for office. This would allow Trump to be removed under the U.S. Constitution's 25th Amendment ‐ another scheme Stone said would probably flop. Last but not least, though, if all else fails, Stone warned of "Plan C": [k]illing the president. Interesting here is that Newman's piece was published January 1, just before talk of President Trump's alleged mental instability became the month's big news story. In fact, released just four days later was journalist Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury, which makes the case that Trump is psychologically unfit to hold office. Note, too, that Wolff has boasted that his book will bring down the president. This bold claim will more likely just bring up book sales. It's not only that Wolff has said he can't be sure everything in his book is true; that it contains factual errors; and that he is, as ex-Trump strategist Sebastian Gorka put it, "a partisan self-promoter with credibility issues[.]" It's that removing a president for inability to discharge his duties isn't easy. Per the 25th Amendment's Section IV, Vice President Mike Pence would have to declare Trump unfit, 13 of the 24 Cabinet members would have to agree, and then two thirds of both houses of Congress would ultimately have to vote to uphold the decision. Unless Trump starts fainting right and left and throwing behind-the-scenes temper fits like Hillary Clinton, Stone is correct in saying this is unlikely. This leaves the alleged "Plan C." But is such a Deep State course of action really in the cards? Calling Trump "a shock to the system," Stone explained his thinking to The New American: "It's easy to forget that the shocking upset that Donald Trump pulled off has never been forgotten or acknowledged by the globalist cabal that has really infected both of our major parties." And with the economy flourishing and public confidence up, "it's easy to misread the deep enmity and hatred that the globalists and the [i]nsiders have for this president, and to underestimate their resolve to remove him." "If all else fails," writes Newman, "Stone believes [that] the Deep State would, in fact, attempt to murder the president." Stone emphasized that if "Mueller should fail in his illegitimate coup d'état to take down the president," he thinks "you will see an uptick in the 'Trump-is-crazy' talk," reported Newman. Again, we've already witnessed this. Posted by: Besoeker 2018-01-11 |
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