What It Is Ain't Exactly Clear
I’ll be scrambling to stay current through next week. Between the two of us, we have appointments every single day, which sets things back.
What it is …
This whole business of Zhou’s secreting highly classified documents—reportedly dealing with his dealings with foreign countries, which we know were key to his influence peddling—looks to be criminal. Trump was president, at the top of the classification pyramid. VP has no such authority.
The big question, which most are ignoring, is: How can this be happening? Happening to a Dem “president”, who should be totally protected by the MSM, the Deep State (Intel Community) that overthrew Trump, the legal branch of the Deep State at DoJ which was also complicit in the coup against Trump. To me, none of this makes sense except as a move to remove Zhou, who seems to like his current gig and has been making noises about continuing past 2024. I may be wrong, but I just can’t see this any other way than as a ruling class move to put an end to this very bad joke on the country. These things just don’t happen by coincidence, and they would normally be hidden.
Never forget. Everyone in DC knows that Zhou is, and has been for all his life, a complete waste of space—morally, mentally, every way imaginable. Perhaps the stupidest and most corrupt occupant of the White House ever. Bluto Barr knew this, Turtle McConnell knew this—but they thought that was as much as the America people deserved, if it came to the possibility of Donald Trump continuing to shake things up in the Imperial City, exposing it for what it is.
Keep your eyes open for events that could shed light on what’s behind all this. I just don’t see this as business as usual. Yesterday we wrote about the Existential Angst of the Deep State. I take it that the Deep State is aware of the existential crisis facing both NATO and the American Empire, and has been aware of this for some time. They’ve tried muddling through with a Zero in the Oval Office, or in Delaware. That’s just not working, and they can’t pretend anymore to our vassal states in Europe—you can see that from the Alphonse and Gaston act we’re seeing with regard to NATO states providing heavy weapons to Ukraine: No, you first; No, we’re not doing this alone, etc. Somehow an inflection point was reached and a decision was made—that’s my operating theory. This may come down to saving what can be saved from the current mess. With the Zhou regime still run by WEF lackeys doing crazy ass things, it may come down to the Deep State selecting a Republican to replace that gang. For now, it seems this thing has legs.
Tom Luongo is, understandably, taking a lap:
And Tom took his lap even before the third stash came to light.
If you’re looking for blow by blow analysis, heavy on the legal angle but without speculation about the Deep State and all, you can hardly do better than Jonathan Turley. Turley has been out front calling for a Special Counsel—for what that’s worth—for many months now. I say, for what that’s worth, because if I’m right, then the main object is to move on and save Deep State asses, not wallow in the current corruption. I like when Turley is having a good time, but I wish he would do more connected threads instead of mostly separate tweets:
The President just said that the documents found in his garage are in a "locked garage" like his corvette. The corvette standard is actually not in classified protocols...
...The White House Counsel could now cite the long-standing slogan for corvette: “Like a car, only better”
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The corvette statement was remarkably ill-considered. It was a cringe-worthy moment. After being given a carefully worded statement by his lawyers and staff, the President ad-libbed and suggested that his locked garage was a secure space for classified material.
Alex Christoforou: Someone has it in for Biden.
CBS News led with this story at noon, sounding very skeptical of Zhou's explanations. It sounded like CBS got a heads up from a good source.