I chalk that up to stupidity. He let them do repeated tests on him, got the clotshots, and when he got the flu they convinced him he had COVID and he took one of their treatments and then was all grateful as though they saved his life. He deferred to "experts" and bought their bull$#@! hook, line and sinker. I don't think he has the vaguest idea that hospitals were murdering people or what the truth is about the clotshots because he's not the type of guy who goes on a search for the truth. IOW, in that regard, total NPC. Then you have the fact he's a narc and narcs are ALWAYS right and once he fell for the warp speed plan, he proudly became the "father of the vaccine" and owned it, like an idiot. If Ivanka dropped dead from a heart attack or blood clot, tomorrow, I seriously doubt he'd put two and two together. On this issue, RFK Jr is certainly far better.
Now, back to what I was criticizing about Trump, previously, I was just reading this Zero Hedge piece about the NYT admitting that the CIA has spy bases on Russia's border, in Ukraine, and how everything Putin has said all of these years is true (I knew that). In the article is the following is exactly what I was talking about up thread:
Among the most interesting and curious moments of the NYT report is a description of the CIA program's expanse under the Trump administration. The report suggests that the true scope may have even been hidden from Trump. The Russia hawks in his administration quietly did the 'dirty work', we are told:
The election of Trump in November 2016 put the Ukrainians and their CIA partners on edge.
Trump praised Putin and dismissed Russia’s role in election interference. He was suspicious of Ukraine and later tried to pressure its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to investigate his Democratic rival, Biden, resulting in Trump’s first impeachment.
The report then emphasizes,
"But whatever Trump said and did, his administration often went in the other direction. This is because Trump had put Russia hawks in key positions, including Mike Pompeo as CIA director and John Bolton as national security adviser."
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...ne-waged-shadow-war-last-decade-bombshell-nyt
And, there it is. His lack of principals which cause him to not follow through on his good instincts and his atrocious judgment of character with his appointments. This also argues against your own theory that he's somehow "in on it". It's his combination of narcissism (needing to be liked by those who hate him), being unprincipled and vulnerability to being conned by and in awe of "experts", that allowed $#@! like that to go on. It was the same thing with Syria when he said all US forces withdrawn and the DoD gave him song and dance about doing it gradually and once he was out of office they admitted they lied to him and there were 900 personnel there.
So, I don't make excuses for him and I also don't think he's evil or in on anything. In fact, he was kept out of everything by the very people he appointed and others who were supposed to follow his orders as commander in chief.
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