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Two consequential and likely historic events are playing out right now simultaneously: the Biden bribery scandal and the indictment of Donald Trump.
I always try to look at situations like this through at least 2 separate lenses.
In this instance, I consider what we are witnessing from the possibility that literally everything playing out is pure Kayfabe (ie: a false feud,) orchestrated in such a way as to initiate the greater public into the world that anons have been living in for the last 6 years now. The other way I look at this is that there is a very real spook vs spook information war playing out and the deep-state players are still very much fighting back.
This article assumes the latter.
The most telling aspect of these dueling stories is the amount of airtime each has received from the various mainstream media outlets.
Let’s compare.
President Donald Trump’s indictment includes 31 counts of violating the Espionage Act of 1917. Biden, who so far hasn’t been charged with anything, is not only being investigated for participating in a bribery scheme with a foreign national, but the FBI has now admitted to assisting in the cover-up. (#)
First, let’s consider the indictment of Donald Trump.
In the simplest terms possible, Trump brought some things with him when he left the White House. Whether it was a single postcard or a million documents, under the Presidential Records Act, it doesn’t matter; he is allowed to do so. Much like Obama, who is still going through something like 3 million pages of documents.
The Espionage Act, which is the foundation that the Trump indictment was built on, was enacted by Congress at the outset of World War I to prohibit:
“obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation.” (#)
This Act has historically been employed in rare instances by law-and-order conservatives or has been used to squash dissenting rhetoric during wartime scenarios. However, we saw a significant uptick in its use during the Obama administration, which used the Espionage Act as a weapon of choice when going after national security leakers and whistleblowers.
Even CNN’s Jake Tapper once said:
“The Obama administration has used the Espionage Act to go after whistleblowers who leaked to journalists ... more than all previous administrations combined.”
Before diving into the legitimacy of the charges, there are a few things to note regarding the Espionage Act.
First of all, the Act rarely pertains to actual espionage. Indeed, one portion of the act—18 U.S.C. section 794 — does relate to spying for foreign governments, for which the maximum sentence is life imprisonment, but this is almost never why the law is used.
To be fair, it’s not that this aspect of the law is unheard of; there was the example of Johnathon Pollard, who leaked classified information to Israel in 1987, or Aldrich Ames, the CIA officer who turned out to be a double agent for the Russian KGB.
But these instances are extremely rare. Most often, as with the Trump indictment, the law applies to the unauthorized gathering, possessing, or transmitting of certain sensitive government information.
Secondly, and unfortunately, a violation does not require an intention to aid a foreign power, and as the Obama administration has shown us, the Act can be used creatively to the advantage of a regime occupying the White House to go after its adversaries.
Specifically, Obama used the Act to go after Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, CIA agent John Kiriakou, and Army private Chelsea Manning. Kiriakou was given 30 months in federal prison, and Manning was sentenced to 35 years, although Obama commuted her sentence after she had served seven years.
How do we arrive at 400 years for Donald Trump?
This is allowed to happen because the proper checks and balances are simply not applied in scenarios like this where the Deep State has made up its mind to take somebody out at all costs.
Assuming this whole thing isn’t kayfabe (which might actually be the most logical conclusion), the Trump indictment begs the question: has the DOJ devolved into being little more than the lawfare arm of the Democrat Party?
In the past, this tactic may have worked to rein in disruptive individuals like Assange and Manning, but in the case of Donald Trump, a former president, things should play out a little bit differently.
Prosecutorial Flim Flam
There are several problems with the Department of Justice’s case.
The prosecution has been unusually aggressive and observably biased. It becomes especially apparent when you consider how the DOJ has treated both Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton for violations of the Espionage Act that were far more egregious than what Trump stands accused of.
The biggest oopsie on the part of the DOJ, and one that couldn’t have possibly been overlooked, is whether or not the Espionage Act should even apply to Trump.
Unlike Biden and Clinton, Trump should have special privileges and protections for having served as president of the United States. Specifically, I am referring to the Presidential Records Act of 1978.
In the context of deep state lawfare, the prosecution has one job that it must accomplish by any means necessary: to get Donald Trump.
Justice Robert H. Jackson warned about this some 80 years ago when he said,
“In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.
It is in this realm—in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass, or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views, or being personally obnoxious to or in the way of the prosecutor himself." — Robert H. Jackson, “The Federal Prosecutor,” speech delivered in Washington on April 1, 1940
Jack Smith (the special prosecutor) has a history of aggressive prosecution; Smith was previously reversed 9-0 by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell (#)
Determining whether the Espionage Act or the Presidential Records Act applies is going to be, or at least should be, the deciding factor in this case.
According to Kash Patel, if Congress had wanted the Espionage Act to Supersede the Presidential Records Act, they would have written the law differently. In a nutshell, The law that comes after supersedes the law that came prior unless Congress says otherwise, which they haven’t.
Let me put it like this: if you handed this case over to an unbiased AI that simply looked at the evidence and then used the entire database of all U.S. court records to make a ruling, this case would never see a jury.
A Blind Eye for Biden
While this spectacle has firmly caught the attention of our nation’s compromised media apparatus, Joe Biden is not only standing accused of pay-to-play schemes and bribery, but now the FBI has essentially admitted to helping cover it all up.
In a normal world, this would be bigger than OJ Simpson, Monica Lewinski, and Stormy Daniels Combined, and this barely scratches the surface of what the Bidens have been implicated in.
Hunter Biden admitted in his own words that he gave half of his salary to Joe Biden for the last three decades. There are at least 459 documented crimes found on the Biden Laptop, including money laundering, tax fraud, and more, which the FBI has had since December 2019.
Additionally, the Bidens allegedly collected millions from Ukrainian oligarchs as unregistered foreign lobbyists, worked with the "spy chief of China," attempted to broker a $9 billion deal for Vladimir Putin, engaged in money laundering and tax fraud, and the FBI concealed their crimes.
Recall the image below.
The FBI KNOWINGLY covered all of this up, and the MSM continues focusing solely on Trump.
So what’s really going on here?
The system of systems, using its media apparatus, is attempting to shift our collective eyes by using a sort of metaphorical smoke-and-mirrors effect.
‘Look here, not there.’
The Deep State modus operandi has always been to control the media, shape the narrative, and thereby control the masses.
Despite everything that has come to light over the last 7 years, we still have a huge swath of voters in this country who are woefully misinformed, and their trust in the legacy media institutions perpetuates the cultural hypnosis. Trump's "crime" is nothing but the fever dream of a bunch of panicked uniparty personnel, and if it were anyone else, this indictment would never have happened.
On the other hand, Biden's crimes are obvious to anyone so long as they actually invest the time to understand what he’s been accused of.
Assuming this isn’t all Kayfabe (which honestly feels like the only possibility that makes sense anymore,) and instead it’s all organically playing out this way, what does the Deep State hope to achieve with the indictment of Donald Trump?
Do they really think they can put him away for 400 years?
If it is Kayfabe, I could see Trump actually being arrested as part of the whole production. If it’s real, then I don’t think there is an outcome here that the Deep State is aiming for, they've already got what they need from all of this:
A) Something to keep the Biden bribery scandal out of the news cycles and therefore out of the mind or consciousness of anyone who is left of center.
B) They needed to create a talking point for the 2024 presidential race, "Trump's the only president in history to be blah blah blah."
So basically, if this whole thing leads nowhere and Trump is once again found innocent, the Deep State has already gotten its immediate needs met.
However, this sleight-of-news tactic they employ doesn't work on everyone, and each time they do it more people start to see the system of systems for what it is.
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I have conversations with God “almost” every night and on Wednesday night June 14th (two days ago), this is what I wrote down from the Father. How amazing is this!
“I’m so glad that some of My children can see through all of the enemies lies. All that the enemy is doing right now clouds most peoples minds and they can’t see through the enemies smoke and mirrors. But My children, who are called by My Name, are not deceived and KNOW the TRUTH even when everything looks like a LIE. That is called Spiritual Awareness My son.”
Good point about the fact that if this was being reviewed by AI it would never see a jury. Nice and clear for those still sleeping! Great breakdown.