Excerpt from Curt Schilling podcast
“UA Senior Fellow Rich Higgins talks about what he saw of the Deep State in the White House in an interview by Breitbart’s Curt Schilling,
“. . . . I would go into National Security Council meetings with 10, 20, 30 people and there would only be 2 or 3 Trump supporters who were outnumbered by Obama holdovers.
Why was it so hard for Trump to clean house? Why did the Obama holdovers so outnumber everyone?
Why didn’t he make his own team?
There are three things we have to look at:
- The Deep State wanted to get Gen Flynn out of there as early as possible because he would have figured out what the FBI was up to
- We need to find out who put McMaster in place
- We know that McMaster was talking with McCabe, he was talking with perhaps Strozyk, and other persons
I did not write this memo for public consumption. I don’t know if Trump read it but somehow this memo that talked about the Deep State ended up on the desk of a Deep State bureaucrat, McMaster.
The memo brought up Title 18 concerns–Trump is the Commander-in-Chief, you don’t get to subvert him. What I see now, that is beyond the pale for me, is the institutional bureaucracy becoming hyper politicized in opposition to the President.
Why were these people allowed to remain in place?
Trump is a businessman and his reliance on the establishment to help him was perhaps his Achilles heel. Steve Bannon said it best: the ‘original sin’ of this administration was the belief that the establishment was going to help do the President’s mandate and what he was elected to do.
Watching all this take place in the White House, this memo just bubbled out. By the time it has been leaked to the press, I had already been removed. This is different from the anonymous coward in the White House who leaked to the NY Times in an op-ed. I think she’ll be out of here pretty soon. I have a pretty good idea who it is and again, we’re going to find out it’s a known commodity who had been identified early on as opposing the President. . . . ””…
Added: More from Richard Higgins in 9/12/18 interview, The Hill, 9/12/18, “Opinion: Whistleblower speaks out on intelligence community’s anti-Trump abuses,” The Hill, Monica Crowley
“Richard Higgins, an irregular-warfare expert with decades of intelligence experience, was serving in the National Security Council’s strategic planning office when he says he was alerted by “good guys at FBI” about a high-level, coordinated effort to subvert the president. He drafted a memo, “POTUS and Political Warfare,” which detailed “withering information campaigns” directed against Trump by “ ’deep state’ actors, globalists, bankers, Islamists, and establishment Republicans.” (See his memo here.) This was far beyond normal politics, he wrote; it was an assault at “an unprecedented level” designed to remove “a seated president through manipulation of the news cycle.”
The memo eventually reached Trump, who reportedly agreed with its assessment. Within 48 hours, Higgins was terminated by then-national security adviser H.R. McMaster’s deputy and escorted out of the building. Trump was said to have been “furious” when told of Higgins’s firing.”…
The memo eventually reached Trump, who reportedly agreed with its assessment. Within 48 hours, Higgins was terminated by then-national security adviser H.R. McMaster’s deputy and escorted out of the building. Trump was said to have been “furious” when told of Higgins’s firing.”…
[Ed. note: Irrelevant. Trump didn’t re-hire Higgins. It's not good enough that he was merely "furious."]
(continuing): “Sixteen months later, the Times writer confirmed Higgins’s account that there is, in fact, a clandestine, unelected cabal willfully thwarting the Trump presidency.
In an exclusive interview, Higgins tells me that while he’s been vindicated, “I underestimated how egregious the abuses of power actually were.”
Early on, his memo “called out — without specifically naming — what we now know as Operation Crossfire Hurricane,” the FBI counterintelligence investigation targeting the Trump campaign by using smears paid for by his political opponents and abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process.
Further, after Trump’s stunning election victory, the Republican establishment was allowed to staff out his new administration — an epic mistake, according to Higgins:
“These bad actors have shielded the Obama holdovers from dismissal, tolerated the bureaucratic slow-rolling by corrupt government officials, populated the administration with their own loyalists, and prevented qualified, actual Trump supporters from being hired. Not to mention the Trump supporters the media and establishment loyalists co-conspired to push out once hired,” he says.
“This toxic betrayal mixed with a media that covers for corrupt leaders in the FBI and DOJ, while hurling itself into one manufactured fake story after another, makes this an unprecedented crisis,” he says.
Asked how these forces are specifically operating, he replies:
“Their aim is to kill the issues he was elected on. We’re still in Afghanistan. We don’t have the border wall or even funding for it. We still have ObamaCare … the DOJ (Department of Justice) and FBI are leaving the rule of law in tatters while the Republican establishment allows a nearly 18-month-long unprecedented, extra-legal [special counsel Robert] Mueller spectacle to continue unabated. Mueller’s deep-state rear-guard action exists to cover the retreat of corrupt officials.”
Further, he says, “while the hard left presently controls the Democratic Party, leaders of the intelligence community” — including former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey — “appear to have attempted to use our most sensitive intelligence capabilities to sabotage both the election process and the Trump presidency.” And the Republican Party’s leadership, he adds, “appears to have taken a business-as-usual approach that, at best, amounts to the passive tolerance of sedition.”
Higgins doesn’t make these charges casually.
“I hope the President re-reads the memo and makes his staff read it,” he says, “because I stand by that assessment. [He] intuitively knows that there are active saboteurs around him.”
The danger, of course, is that Trump ends up trusting very few — inhibiting his effectiveness, precisely the resisters’ goal. What can he and others do to root out these subversives?
“The abuses of power by the DOJ, FBI, IC [intelligence community] and other institutions … require a bona fide special counsel. There is no doubt that these abuses present a true national security crisis,” Higgins explains.
“As far as the internal opponents, there are vetting processes and personnel changes that can be made.
****The first order of business is dismantling the establishment Republican infrastructure controlling White House personnel,” he says.****
Higgins says the consequences of failing to eliminate the internal threat are dire. “First, the emerging two-tiered justice system” — one protective of the elite, the other for everyone else — “will ensure that these abuses happen again.
“Second, faith in government will collapse among Trump supporters. Having been betrayed by the politicians they elected, a demographic large enough to elect a president will become completely disenfranchised.
“History will understand that the Republican Party served as the defeat mechanism of the American experiment in that they got elected on issues that they never intended to address.”
He characterizes this moment as “pivotal, but we may not fully understand the significance of current events for decades.”
Given the public confirmation of his initial warning, he offers a fresh one: “We are fighting for this country’s future as well as her past. I warned senior [officials] on the national security transition that we were storming Omaha Beach on Jan. 20, 2017.
They didn’t listen, and they didn’t survive the first wave.
We still have to take that beach. The very same principles are at stake.”
The president ignores this alarm again at his — and the country’s — peril.”
9/7/18 Curt Schilling podcast, Rich Higgins segment begins at 16:46
“Listen to the rest [audio link at end of article] as Higgins and Schilling talk about the implications on the American people, the Deep State and the media of declassifying the FISA memo, as well as thoughts on the Kavanaugh nomination, and how theMueller witchhunt is a rearguard action protecting the corrupt activities of multiple individuals in the government and private sector with foreign money going back perhaps decades.”
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