Assassination Prep

How DNC officials & Establishment figures worked to make Trump a target

After the shocking assassination attempt on Trump, it’s tempting to single out low-level losers like the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson, who called for people to "go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump" in 2023. Make no mistake, these disgusting cowards are fully deserving of every ounce of blame and scorn they’re currently receiving.

But it’s also worth noting that although people like Wilson may be among the most obvious candidates for creating the environment that led up to the assassination attempt on President Trump, they’re not the most dangerous. That title belongs to the high-level democrat operatives and establishment DNC leaders.

Democrats have tried everything imaginable to stop Donald Trump. They've attacked him relentlessly since he first appeared on the political scene. They weaponized our three letter agencies against him - and they impeached him over the crimes that Joe Biden committed.

They followed all of this up by unleashing the power of a weaponized and highly politicized DOJ - what amounts to federalized lawfare - to attack and cripple Trump before he even gained the formal GOP nomination.

These establishment figures have been desperate almost beyond description to prevent his return to the presidency. But the problem for Democrats is the more they attacked him the stronger Trump became. In the end, Democrat Leaders became actively panicked. A panic that manifested itself in a dangerous - 6,000 word editorial in the Washington Post titled “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.”

The editorial, complete with very questionable photo selections, was written by highly influential NeoCon swamp monster and Brookings Senior Fellow Robert Kagan - who’s also the husband of Biden’s former deputy secretary of state Victoria Nuland - another swamp creature whose only time out of Washington was during the Trump administration.

Kagan, a long-time NeoCon, has worked tirelessly to lie and manipulate our country into multiple wars. A never-ending quest for the next “endless” war. His wife was instrumental in overthrowing the legitimately elected government in Ukraine in early 2014 and she was also involved in the RussiaGate lie - receiving perhaps the earliest known copy of the Steele Dossier in early July 2016.

Kagan laid out his thesis on the existential threat that Trump supposedly represented (along with a number of dangerous dog whistles) right at the outset of his op-ed, writing “let's stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality: there is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States and it is getting shorter every day.”

Importantly, Kagan already foresaw that the myriad indictments of Trump were going to fail, noting that “such hopeful speculation has allowed us to drift along passively, conducting business as usual, taking no dramatic action to change course, in the hope and expectation that something will happen.” 

Make of that last section what you will - Kagan was careful to avoid defining exactly what that “something” might be. Kagan also admitted to the shotgun legal tactics employed against Trump (which really began back in 2016), but he validated them with the cheap claim that Trump “certainly committed at least one of the crimes he is charged with; we don't need a trial to tell us he tried to overturn the 2020 election.”

Kagan openly admitted the legal warfare was done with the self-justified intent of obstructing Trump’s path to the Oval Office, writing that “When a marauder is crashing through your house, you throw everything you can at him – pots, pans and candlesticks - in the hope of slowing them down and tripping them up. But that doesn't mean it works.”

These casual justifications are all part of what makes the op-ed by Kagan so deeply, deeply dangerous. As Mollie Hemmingway noted at the time, ‘This extreme and dangerous genre - of claiming Trump is Hitler (because, they say, he might do what Democrats are doing right now) - should probably be given the name "Assassination Prep." Mollie’s name for this tactic is unfortunately more relevant than ever.

Still not satisfied, Kagan stoked very real fears when he wrote that Trump “will have spent the previous year, and more, fighting to stay out of jail, plagued by myriad persecutors and helpless to do what he likes to do best: exact revenge. Think of the fury that will have built up inside him, a fury that, from his point of view, he  has worked hard to contain… Many will simply be fired, but others will be subject to career-destroying investigations.” 

Kagan continued, claiming that “the Trump administration will have many avenues to persecute its enemies, real and perceived.” And in this matter Kagan may well be correct. Some of the legal weapons that were used against Trump may in turn end up being directed against those who targeted him.

As Kagan noted without a trace of guilt or self-reflection, “Think of all the laws now on the books that give the federal government enormous power to surveil people for possible links to terrorism, a dangerously flexible term, not to mention all the usual opportunities to investigate people for alleged tax evasion or violation of foreign agent registration laws.” 

In effect, a number of “calls to arms” were sent out with this widely-read editorial - warning administration and establishment officials of what they actually did, while simultaneously illustrating how those same weapons might be turned back onto them. A warning to members of the Establishment what the loss of power this time around really entailed.

The projection was incredible. As was the total irresponsibility of his editorial. It doesn’t take a great leap to understand what was really being said and what was being asked. From the perspective of the entrenched bureaucrats and deep state figures, Trump must be stopped. At any cost. And by whatever means necessary.

What’s also clear is that none of this was about the will of the voters. Democracy had no place in Kagan’s warnings, nor did it ever have. Of primacy was mitigating any risks to the establishment’s position of power. As Kagan stated, “stopping Trump would have required extraordinary action by certain people.” This was about maintaining power and control.

In a series of tweets a few months back, the great Victor Davis Hansen noted this control, describing how “the Obama-Biden nexus—from 2009 to 2017, and from 2021 until now - cemented the reputation of FBI as a partisan operation, rebooted the Pentagon as an agent of woke change ferreting out “white rage” and “white privilege”, reinvented the DOJ as a Biden family protection service, politicized the CIA so that it, along with the FBI, interfered in the 2016 and 2020 elections, and warped the IRS by suppressing evidence of Biden family tax fraud.”

Hanson also rightly noted that “What Lois Lerner, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch left undone was taken up by Merrick Garland.” Obama and Eric Holder began the true weaponization and politicization of the DOJ. Now Obama is using Biden and Garland to finish the job.

And in one sense Hanson agrees with a thrust of Kagan’s editorial - that the Left is afraid of Trump precisely because they know that if they were Trump and had suffered the same attacks and weaponized lawfare from their opponents, they would go after their political enemies with equal ferocity. 

In other words, as Hanson notes, “they are scared that Trump thinks and acts like they do.” This is the real reason why the media, DC bureaucrats and establishment politicians are all terrified about the prospect of Trump’s return. “They are convinced Trump would do exactly what they would do in his place - and what they would do suddenly and utterly horrifies them.”

All of this raises an interesting question. What would have happened if the Left had not gone after Trump via a full frontal lawfare assault? What if the DOJ had never targeted Trump? Our guess is the current landscape might look very different today. For that matter, Trump might not even be a candidate in this presidential race.

Trump wasn’t prepared for what confronted him when he miraculously won the presidency in 2016. He came expecting a swamp. He found an ocean. As a result, for much of his first term Trump’s administration was pushed back on its heels, playing ongoing, almost frantic defense. Indeed, it’s easy to forget that throughout most of 2017 it was far from clear that Trump would even finish the next two years, let alone his full term. But they are terrified of Trump this time around. 

They’re terrified because they think he’s wiser and far more prepared this time around. And Trump really does have justification and motivation to go after those who attacked him. For any who haven’t seen it, we encourage you to take a look at Agenda47, the plan for Trump’s new administration. Whatever you may believe, this is a very different level of preparedness than what existed in 2016. But in spite of that - or more precisely because of it - we are also entering very unsettling times.