Realistically, What Are Trumps Chances to Make American Great Again? by Paul Craig Roberts
(2024-11-15 at 04:14:37 )

Realistically, What Are Trumps Chances to Make American Great Again? by Paul Craig Roberts

No, MAGA Americans, I am not a party pooper. I am a realist.

No, I am not trying to make Donald Trump look bad. I was Donald Trumps defender against all the false accusations and indictments. I insisted that we had to stand up for Donald Trump and elect him or never again would a presidential candidate take the side of the people against the Establishment.

I warned over and over that Donald Trump does not know Washington,D.C., and he has again proven me correct with his appointments of a war cabinet of Washington,D.C. insiders, with no executive authority for Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Today (November 13) Donald Trumps announcements of appointees was a little better in the cases of Tulsi Gabbard and Matt Gaetz. When I say a little, I do not imply any criticism of these two Americans. In Gabbards case, I do not know what the executive power of the Director of National Intelligence is. Is Gabbard above the CIA, NSA, State Department, or is she a coordinator of information that she does not originate and control?

The Director of National Intelligence is a cabinet-level agency or department created in 2004 during the orchestrated hysteria of "Muslim terrorists." It advises the president, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council. Apparently, it has taken over the CIAs function of providing the presidents daily briefing. Where it gets its information from is unclear. Is the National Intelligence Agency just a mouthpiece for the CIA?

Regardless, Tulsi Gabbards voice is important, and the position gives her a voice.

The same for Matt Gaetzs appointment as United States Attorney General. Gaetz is no milk toast. He is a strong individual, the kind of person needed in such a critical office. My question is: does he have the seasoning. I certainly do not object if he does.

I would have thought that some of Trumps attorneys, illegally prosecuted by Bidens totally corrupt Attorney General, would have been a better choice. I think my choice would have been the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton. He has experience as an attorney general, and he has challenged the Biden regime criminals on several fronts.

This does not mean that Gaetz can not be successful. Perhaps Gaetz should insist that Paxton be appointed deputy attorney general. That would be a strong team, a team that could guarantee the Trump administrations success. If Trump is to return America to the rule of law, those who weaponized law must be punished.

Also on the 13th Trump appointed the Treasury Secretary. His name is Scott Bessent. He is a hedge fund manager who created a global investment fund. He might be a good pick. I do not know.

Bessent is a Southerner and, thereby, possibly possesses integrity. But his background indicates a man out for himself at the expense of other people: Yale University, George Soros Fund Management, a successful Soros destabilizer of the British pound and Japanese yen. In other words, a person out for his own benefit.

Perhaps he has reformed. But there is no indiction that he has any grasp of economic policy. Will he see his Treasury seat as a way to build relationships and to expand his opportunities to make money? Trumps view seems to be that making money is what makes America great again.

In my day the United States Treasury Department was a policy organization. Today it is a police agency at work imposing sanctions and stealing the central bank reserves of "enemies."

When I was in the United States Treasury, I had to tell my executive secretary that I did not want any more appointments with lobbyists telling me how I was to formulate policy to serve them.

Being of years of experience, she told me: you will not get the directorships, you will not get the consultant fees. I told her I was there to serve the president and that was our job.

It is going to be a challenge for the administration Donald Trump has assembled to make America great again.

Donald Trump is there to be tough for America. War is a likely outcome. The threatened world already sees it coming.

Mohammed bin Salman, the ruler of Saudi Arabia has been conducting naval exercises with Iran. The Saudi ruler recently had talks with Putin about preventing Israeli-United States attacks on Iran. It seems that the United States has lost the Saudis and is on the verge of losing a war, the loss of which will disappoint Trump supporters looking to be made great again.

My hope is that Donald Trump can get enough done peacefully that the American people do not give up hope, thereby empowering the ruling elite with the gift of a demoralized population.

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