2024: RFK Jr. & The First Triumvirate
It was not a red shift. It was a Trump-RFK-Gabbard informal triumvirate.
Come, come, the cause. If arguing make us sweat,
The proof of it will turn to redder drops.
Look, I draw a sword against conspirators;
—Gaius Octavius (William Shakespere, Julius Ceasar, Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 52-54.)
The reality of Trump’s conviction in New York on 34 felony counts is that he was guilty before becoming president — which should have negated his oath of office and nullified his presidency. (Extrajudicial opinions of the conviction are immaterial. The verdict stands.)
When that did not happen, it exposed as fiction the time honored principle that the United States is a country of laws, not of men. As legal scholar Bruno Leoni noted (Freedom and the Law, 1961), the concept from Roman law to English common law to U.S. law was that, “nobody is so powerful in his society as to be in a position to identify his own will with the law of the land.” With Trump’s conviction, followed by his reelection, it is the rule of law that was negated.
And here we are, “stranger in a strange land.”
The corrupt U.S. media called the 2024 election a “red shift.” It was a shift, but not a red one. The purpose of the lie was to reassert the two-party bifurcation fallacy of U.S. politics.1 Another purpose was to reassert the lie that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was not a serious political force. The opposite is the deep-political reality of the 2024 election.2
Instead, Trump’s election was due to shifting alliances of political enemies, more like ancient Rome’s informal alliance between Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus, known by its misleading, modern name, “The First Triumvirate.” Nothing else fully explains the historic electoral flipping of women and ethnic minorities in Democratic strongholds like South Texas.
Trump’s plan, as usual, was to wangle votes any way he could. Trump is a deep-political Frankenstein’s monster created in 2016 for a specific purpose. He got out of control and had to be destroyed politically.3 That is why Kamala Harris was endorsed by deep-political Frankenstein doctors like former Vice President Dick Cheney, Congress Member Liz Cheney, Jimmy McCain, a son of former Arizona senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, and many more. Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard, both of whom became the first Democrats to openly campaign against deep politics,4 were censored, sued, and sacked by the corrupt Democratic Party. Serious commitment to their own goals forced Kennedy and Gabbard into the political necessity of joining an untrustworthy Trump to defeat their mutual opposition.
The underlying theme of the 2024 election was the question of why the race was tied and not a landslide. Many asked. Few had real answers. When we talked about the election, we used the rhetoric we’ve been taught. It caused us to ignore the reality that we are not a democracy, we are an assassinocracy.
For decades, presidential elections have not been about the names on the ballot (the myth of democracy). They have been about two things: the decline of trust in government and the decline of journalism—without a public understanding of either. We can’t have one without the other. The Pew Research Center poll, “Public Trust in Government: 1958-2024,” shows why.5
The sharp reversal in trust began with one event—the release of the big lie that is the Warren Report.6 The brief rises in trust since then, which never recovered above the abysmal Watergate levels, are due to that inability to know. Rumor replaced fact. Belief replaced knowledge. Our latent longing to know fostered our stress and infighting.
Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s election strategy was always about one thing, and one thing only—maintaining a path to victory. When the path was obstructed by Democratic Party subterfuge, he was forced to change course and become an independent candidate. His campaign’s stated goal then became forcing a contingent election by pulling enough votes from both major parties to prevent an Electoral College victory. Despite extreme attempts by the opposition to deny his ballot access, Kennedy came historically close to achieving the seemingly impossible: getting on every state ballot. Then, two major events forced another change.
The assassination attempt on Trump, followed by Kamala Harris replacing President Biden as the Democratic Party’s candidate necessitated a bold, surprising move by Kennedy. He suspended his independent campaign and successfully negotiated a political merger with Donald Trump’s campaign.
The merger was not what it appeared to be. It was not a full, faithful endorsement by Kennedy of a second Trump presidency. Neither did Kennedy end his campaign and drop out of the race, as many believed due to the corrupt news media narrative. He purposely kept his name on 40 state ballots and removed himself from the swing state ballots (those that would allow removal) so as not to be labeled a spoiler. Kennedy also asked his supporters not to vote for him, which many ignored.
The merger was instead a strategic adjustment to maintain Kennedy’s path to a contingent election victory. Which, again, depended on no one winning the Electoral College. There was also the obvious, built-in backup plan of riding Trump’s coat tails to whatever limited power Kennedy could get.
Kennedy’s strategy had been working by keeping the Biden-Trump polls tied within the margin of error. Harris’ candidacy then became an X factor that arguably threatened to break the tie. Regardless of whether the Harris threat was real, the result was clear. Kennedy’s move kept the polls tied within the margin of error. The closer the election, the closer the polls became, and the more difficult it became to cherrypick polls that marginally favored either side.
Even with a polling bias for Harris, the final, adjusted, averaged polls could no longer fully hide the unspeakable: the Kennedy Cohort raised Trump’s numbers. As the chances of a contingent election became mathematically unlikely (though still nonzero), Kennedy defaulted to the built-in backup plan as the reason for the merger:
“You guys know what Project 2025 is? Here’s what Trump said. I didn’t even ask him about that, but he said to me, ‘They’re trying to pin me with Project 2025. I never even heard of Project 2025.’ And he said, ‘That was written by a right-wing [a**hole].’ And he said, … ‘There are left-wing [a**holes] … it was a right-wing [a**hole] that wrote that.’ That was his quote. …in 2016, in 2020, I fought everything he did. He appointed … an oil industry lobbyist, Ryan Zinke, to run the interior department, a coal industry lobbyist to run the EPA, a pharmaceutical industry lobbyist to run the Health and Human Services, a telecom lobbyist to run the Federal Communications Commission and so on. And, these were all the people who were taking those agencies and turning them predatory against the American public. I was suing them, and I was fighting him, publicly criticizing him. He said to me when we met, he said the last time I came into office in 2016, I had no idea how to govern. And he said, ‘You know we didn't even expect to win.’ ... He said they [his appointments] were a bunch of bad people, and he said we’re not going to do that this time. ... He wants his legacy to be the president who ended the wars ... brought the money home to rebuild the middle class ... ended the censorship ... ended the power of the CIA over the American people and who made America healthy again. ... Then people said to me, ‘You shouldn’t trust him because he lies about everything. ... He’ll say anything, and then he’ll do what he wants.’ ... But as soon as I did that endorsement, he started keeping his word on everything. He said to me, ‘I want you to be on my transition team.’ And I asked him, I said, ‘I think it would be good if Tulsi Gabbard were on it too because she’s aligned with me on many of these issues. I don’t want to be alone on that team.’ The transition team is the team that chooses those 14,000 people, that chooses the policies for his administration. He asked me to be on it. I didn’t tell him I wanted to be on it. And he has kept his word on that. We are on that team, and we are working on those appointments now. We’re providing them lists, etcetera. It’s no guarantee it’s going to happen, but everything he’s told me he’s kept his word.”7
Kennedy has every reason for caution. The great irony is that the event necessitating the merger was the July 13th Trump assassination attempt. My detailed analysis of that event is for another essay. But a few brief aspects apply here.
There was no injury at all to Trump. A fake wound and the immediate removal of his shoes are earmarks of a setup for a real shot that missed. His body language also supports a Hollywood stunt. His head doesn’t flinch. Has anyone ever sneaked up and flicked your ear? Did you flinch? The great conman was being conned.
Shoes, fist, and “fight” are odd priorities after being shot. Men’s dress shoes don’t just fall off. Removing them is a typical immobilizer. Real bullets were shot at him. The apparent plan was to set Trump up with a stunt, then really kill him—a deadly bait-and-switch. They missed. It happens. The wild shots were like the Reagan attempt. The setup was like John Connally in the JFK target car.8 From the conspirators’ perspective, it was what Coach Darrell Royal said, quoting Coach Woody Hayes: “There are three things that can happen when you throw a pass, and two of them are bad.”
After personally examining Trump’s alleged ear injury, New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi wrote, “The particular spot that he identified with his tap was pristine.”9 Joe Rogan noted the same noninjury in his three-hour interview of Trump in Austin, Texas on October 25, 2024.
The deafening official silence that has followed the bizzare attempt is on purpose, of course. The key question is: Who benefits from attacking Trump in a way that appears to throw the Secret Service under the bus? Real plots can be hidden well when the scapegoat is an apparently incompetent Secret Service.
The deep-state ticket in 2020 and 2024 was Biden-Harris and then Harris-Walz, not Trump. Trump was always just a 2016 necessity to be tolerated and discarded.10 Biden could not have realistically beaten anybody else, and neither could Harris. A successful attack on Trump would have ended RFK’s plan to throw the election to the House, his only real chance of becoming president in 2025.
Whether or not a proper deep-state-sanctioned candidate replaced Trump, the election would likely no longer be a clear tossup. But with Trump still alive, RFK’s plan was still viable and likely to work. The failed attempt on Trump then became a backup plan, a Dinkin-type psyset setting up a real takedown of RFK. Kennedy remains the real threat to the real deep state. They could even still blame it on Iran for a perfect Reichstag Fire.
RFK posted a long statement on X (Twitter) the morning of August 10, 2024. Buried in it is this paragraph that shows he knew what was going on:
“The dark and elaborately refined arts of partisan politics deployed to end my campaign (the documented censorship and shadowbanning; the out-in-the-open, anti-democratic, and well-funded attempts to keep me off ballots through expensive, complex, time-consuming legal challenges; the thwarting of debate access; the withholding of secret service protection; the paid staged protests; the sundry campaigns of defamation and scandalmongering) are the logical reactions of a threatened — and very unwell — status quo.”
The successes of The First Triumvirate of Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus were temporary. It may have started as an amicitia (friendship) but it led to a civil war which caused disruption, then the collapse of the republic, followed by Ceasar’s temporary then permanent dictatorship, and his assassination by a conspiracy led by Gaius Cassius Longinus on the Ides of March in 44 BCE. The First Triumvirate of Rome is now a metaphor for unintended consequences.
Nonetheless, after years of defensive pessimism, I am cautiously optimistic. RFK, Jr. achieved what most considered impossible. No one has ever run for president on a platform of openly accusing the CIA of killing President John F. Kennedy and his brother Senator Robert F. Kennedy, certainly not a Kennedy. Now the Senator’s son has finished a historically groundbreaking election and seemingly succeeded in achieving unprecedented access to the White House’s biggest secrets. It is the first time a known enemy of the conspiracy has done this since his father’s assassination in 1968.
Two days after the election, researcher Tim Fattig asked in a post on X (Twitter), “With the election (finally) behind us, do you really expect to see a significant change in our access to the remaining withheld #jfkassassination records, or (at least) an improvement in the review process for these records?”
My posted answer was, “I expect the first significant attempt at change. I see it as the primary purpose of the RFK-Gabbard ‘First Triumvirate’ with Trump.”
END NOTES:
Deep Party Politics: A Brief History of Political Identity.
2024: RFK, Jr.’s Deep Political Gambit.
2020: The Deep Political Realities.
2020: High Crimes, Deep Politics.
The Pew Research Center, “Public Trust in Government: 1958-2024,” https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/06/24/public-trust-in-government-1958-2024. Accessed November 10, 2024.
Many Theories & Single Bullets: False Beliefs of JFK’s Assassination.
Math Hoffa, “Project 2025 Was Written by a Right-Wing A**hole!!!,” Math Hoffa YouTube Channel, October 9, 2024. Accessed November 10, 2024.
Gone to Texas: John Connally's and Bill Moyers' Big, Dark Secret.
Josh Fiallo, “Reporter: What I Learned When Trump Let Me Inspect His Ear,” Yahoo News, September 9, 2024. https://news.yahoo.com/news/reporter-learned-trump-let-inspect-174624453.html. Accessed November 10, 2024. Note: In an apparent attempt to discredit Nuzzi’s revelations about Trump’s noninjury, she was later at the center of a strange incident that attempted to sexually scandalize RFK, Jr.
2020: The Deep Political Realities, op. cit.
For the record, I was first to argue in published remarks on Facebook on July 19:
HOW COULD TRUMP HAVE FAKED HIS "BULLET WOUND"?
Simple, really. At the anticipated sound of controlled gunfire, Trump reaches for his ear and then swiftly goes down. He places his palmed blood capsule at the point of "impact" and empties it. The otherwise inexplicable razor-straight "blood" lines on his face are squirting effects from a sloppy release.
This sleight-of-hand has been refined over decades of professional wrestling charades. Is it just coincidence that Hulk Hogan recently has been genuflecting before his Master? Or that Trump participated in at least one WWF extravaganza?
HOW WAS MEDICAL TREATMENT FAKED?
Simple, really. In a recent CNN article, Dr. Sanjay Gupta noted the following:
"US Rep. Ronny Jackson, Trump’s former White House physician [and a serial liar -- CD], said during an interview Monday on 'The Benny Show' podcast, that he 'checked out' the wound to Trump’s ear and bandaged it himself. He added that 'there was no concussive effect from the bullet' because it was far enough from Trump’s head.
"'It just took the top of his ear off, a little bit of the top of his ear off, as it passed through,' Jackson said. 'It was bleeding like crazy.'
"Trump was transported to nearby Butler Memorial Hospital. Dr. David Rottinghaus, an emergency room physician there, said the hospital had been in contact with the Secret Service before Saturday’s rally. Rottinghaus, who did not treat Trump himself and would not comment on Trump’s treatment or condition, said he came to the hospital shortly after the shooting to help triage patients."
So ... Trump's corrupt, disgraced physician/accomplice alone can describe the "wound" and its "treatment"? The Butler Hospital E.R. physician refused to comment.
In my revised post below, I pose a number of reasonable, significant questions relating to the "treatment" of Trump's "wound". They remain unanswered.
As for the set-up of the pathetic Manchurian Candidate, it could have evolved through a host of well-established procedures. Just ask Sirhan. Possible scenarios will be presented in a later post.
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QUESTIONS
Who are the physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals who treated him?
Why wasn't a traditional physician-led press conference held to describe wound(s), treatment procedures, and prognosis?
Were X-rays and photos of the wound pre- and post-treatment taken? If so, will all of them be shown to the world?
Will the "victim" voluntarily and immediately waive privacy rights in order to inform the public?
Why aren't bruising and swelling visible near the site of alleged impact?
It might make sense to knowledgeable and honest historians. That’s not the electorate. Junior still has a lot to prove and myself and a great many people are not optimistic.
Junior certainly endorsed Trump. It’s splitting hairs to say he didn’t.
Trump *said* Pompeo begged him, *said* he didn’t know what he was doing, *said* he wants to break CIA and end wars, but he’s got to have the military industrial complex or else his economy will be cooked. He will be tested. The business community, who are willing to go with profit anyway, agree that he didn’t know what he was doing and don’t see any reason to think he learned anything.
Apparently, his constituency is boomeranging media-conditioned economic myopics. When the shit hits the fan, a given with Trump, Junior will not have an educated constituency to shore up Trump.
I’m not convinced Junior wasn’t in on the fake assassination. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, however. I don’t believe it was planned to be successful. A brilliant psyop that killed a few folks. But Trump so far is giving Project 1895 all the support while pretending to be innocent. I think the most obvious picture is that Junior was duped. Kucinich jumping ship is a sign that Junior doesn’t have what it takes. Trump used him.