by Harley Schlanger, LaRouche Organization:
It didn’t take long for the Anglo-American establishment to launch operations to counter the strategic intent of U.S. voters in providing Donald Trump with a resounding victory on November 5. The dramatic rejection by the electorate of Biden-Harris policies was taken by Trump as a go-ahead to fulfill his mission from his first election in 2016, to “drain the swamp”, and end the “Permanent Wars” favored by the “swamp” since the first Gulf War began in January 1991. The “swamp”, for Trump and his supporters, is a reference to the permanent bureaucracy running U.S. foreign and domestic policy, sometimes identified as the “Military-Industrial Complex”, or the “Deep State.” His pledge to “purge” the “swamp” operatives, which helped carry him to victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, was undermined by the persistent drumbeat of the fraudulent Russiagate narrative — which falsely attributed his victory to meddling in the election by Putin and Russian cyber-networks — and by the presence of a gang of neocons in his administration, many of whom had been appointed by Trump. He campaigned in 2024 with a renewed pledge that, this time, it will be different.
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While his 2024 election victory provoked across-the-board shock and dismay from among the TransAtlantic establishment figures who oversee the neocon and neoliberal swamp creatures, his first appointments to cabinet positions produced outright panic. Among the most controversial were his selection of U.S. Rep Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, as Attorney General, and former Congresswoman and Democratic Party presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, to be the Director of National Intelligence.
As Republicans have taken over the U.S. Senate, which must confirm appointments, there has been a frantic mobilization underway by never-Trump War Hawks in both parties, to convince at least four Republicans to vote against the two, expecting unanimous opposition to them from the Democrats. The announcement by Gaetz on November 21, that he was withdrawing his name from consideration as Attorney General, came after an onslaught of media attacks on him over charges of sex trafficking and drug use. Gaetz steadfastly denied the charges, pointing out that the Justice Department had dropped the investigation in February 2023, citing the lack of credibility of the witnesses making the charges against him. When several Republican Senators expressed concern over the charges, implying they might not support his appointment, he removed his name from consideration, to avoid “unfairly becoming a distraction” to pursuing the agenda of the Trump presidency.
The Real Threat from Gaetz and Gabbard
Gaetz had endeared himself to Trump for his zealous attacks on those pushing the Russiagate narrative, which was used to undermine his authority as President. He was tenacious in debunking the lies coming from the Obama Justice Department (DOJ), the FBI, Democratic officials and the media, proving that there was no evidence to back the charges of Russian meddling, or of Trump collusion with Putin. His attacks on the FBI are especially troubling to anti-Trumpers, as the agency operates under the jurisdiction of the Attorney General. The hearings on his nomination would have provided an opportunity for him to show that charges of illegal FBI activity against Trump are true, tarnishing further the reputation of the Bureau as a hit team of the permanent bureaucracy.
The withdrawal of his candidacy may take some pressure off the defenders of the DOJ. However, Trump’s intention to pursue the fight to clean out political operatives in the Department is not over, as he has appointed several of his attorneys to be deputies to the Attorney General. His choice to replace Gaetz, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, worked as an attorney for Trump in his first impeachment trial. She’s been described by some who know her as “Matt Gaetz without the baggage.”
The verbal fireworks against Gaetz have been accompanied by an aggressive assault against the Gabbard appointment. She was an outspoken opponent of the pro-war neocons while serving in Congress from 2013 to 2021. Her January 2017 trip to Syria and her criticism of U.S. support for Ukraine in the proxy war against Russia have led to charges that she favors ruthless dictators over “democracy”, with venom spewed against her from both sides of the Atlantic. NATO and European Union officials have been warning of the danger of a U.S. break with Europe by the Trump administration, with special concern that Trump would cut off aid to Ukraine, leaving Europe on its own to cope with the alleged threat from an “expansionist” Russia. They are in ongoing discussions with U.S. neocons on how to “Trump-proof” NATO, to be prepared for a sudden move by him to end the war! For the neocons in European governments, this means a commitment to increasing budget outlays for military production at a time when there is growing opposition in the population to spending for a war which most know cannot be won.
From the U.K. is the fear that the “Special Relationship” may be broken by Trump. The {Telegraph} reports that Gabbard’s appointment has “sparked concern over potential reductions in intelligence-sharing across the Five Eyes alliance.” They quote former MI6 head Sir Richard Dearlove, who called it “a maverick appointment”, of one with “no experience of intelligence and security.” Dearlove was involved in the U.K.-concocted hoax of Iraqi weapons-of mass-destruction which led to the Iraq war in 2003, and played a role in promoting the fake stories of Russiagate, e.g. defending the author of the phony Steele dossier, former MI6 agent Christopher Steele. (The Steele dossier alleged that Putin controls Trump through compromising videos of sexual activity during a trip to Moscow. It has been thoroughly debunked as a fraud.)
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