During the Catalan coup d’état of October 1, 2017, a very striking photographic diptych of the moment went viral. In the first photo, a group of exultant separatists appears, smiling enthusiastically and raising their hands at the announcement of the proclamation by the President of the Generalitat of the independence of Catalonia. In the second, the same characters expressed their disappointment in their faces and in their gestures upon learning that Puigdemont himself, a few seconds later, had suspended him.
If you could take two symbolic photographs of the reaction of hard-line Trumpists to the president-elect’s nominations, they would look very similar. Loop only.
It’s disconcerting, even if the unexpected is what we expect from Trump. He chose unexpected “doves” like Tulsi Gabard to oversee intelligence services and predictable hawks like Marco Rubio to lead foreign policy. If, as his enemies claim, Trump is crazy, we must admit that there is no method to his madness.
The last two that we have news of are no less disconcerting, as if we were facing the mysterious case of Doctor Donald and Mister Trump. We are referring to the appointment of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a well-known opponent of lockdowns during the pandemic, as director of the NIH, the North American public health agency. And Scott Bessent, a Soros man, as Treasury Secretary. It’s to drive you crazy.
During the coronavirus crisis, Bhattacharya was the visible face of the resistance expressed in an open letter known as the Great Barrington Declaration, which opposed widespread lockdowns. In a statement, Trump said Bhattacharya would work with another wise man, lifelong Democrat Robert F. Kennedy, to “restore the NIH to a gold standard in medical research while examining the underlying causes and solutions to America’s greatest health challenges, including our chronic disease crisis.” “.
And then there is Bessent, a close collaborator of Soros, the parsley to all globalist sauces of which Elon Musk, now inseparable from Trump, declared that “he simply hates humanity”, in the key position of Secretary of the Treasury , the man of the bag. Tie this flight by its tail.
Bessent is the founder of Key Square Group, a global investment firm. During the 1990s, he worked as an investment director at Soros Fund Management and ran the fund’s London office when, in 1992, Soros made more than $1 billion betting on the collapse of the pound sterling.
Bessent also hosted a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore in 2000, the same year he left Soros Fund Management. He has since donated to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, but in recent years has abandoned his support for the Democratic Party and become a supporter of the economic protection model championed by Trump.
Already during his first term, faced with Trump’s disconcerting lurches, a team of exegetes had emerged tasked with unraveling the strategy of the New Yorker, who spoke of “three-dimensional failures” to try to explain his strange appointments. And now they have resurfaced.
SO, Breitbartthe political news portal formerly run by Steve Bannon, Trump’s first-term strategist, tells us that Bessent “has a history of fighting the political agenda of the far left, even from what some conservatives would consider the belly of the beast: the George Soros. ‘hedge fund.
This seems to be the narrative: Bessent is good at fighting globalism because he has been in his gut, hand-in-hand with the godfather of globalism himself, and is better prepared than anyone to fight it . Whether this is true or just wishful thinking to comfort those who americafirststime will tell.
But there is another theory which, at first glance, seems more plausible: that of lime and that of sand. The forces opposing Trump are extremely powerful, as we have seen every day for years. So Trump, master negotiator, made a sort of deal with the deep state (not a few gentlemen meeting secretly in a smoke-filled room, but simply the permanent government of the bureaucracy and intelligence services): I choose half and you infiltrate the other. half.
The play could go very wrong. But you can also afford to reverse the numbers that the establishment They imposed figurines on him, taking away or strictly limiting all his royal power. This is what we already suspect of Rubio, who will appear when the real secretary of state will be the new national security adviser, Mike Waltz.
Will it be lime or sand in the long term? Well, those who elected Trump can’t complain about his unpredictability. That’s all the fun.
