The Perched Eye blog is 12+ years old, beginning in 2009 with President Obama's first term. Our focus has been eclectic ... the ways and directions of American politics and culture, and occasionally summarizing the potential impact of new technologies. Pericles21's observations sometimes attract a critical eye, but the 'pen' remains unblunted. -------------------
On August 8, 2022, the FBI sprang, by warrant, an unannounced, early morning search of Donald Trump's estate home ('Mar-a-Lago') at West Palm Beach (Florida). The ostensible FBI objective was (is) to recover 27 boxes of White House documents that Trump had taken with him when he officially vacated the Presidency on January 20, 2021. Those documents may have included classified documents of importance to national security and which Trump would not have been permitted to remove from the White House...had he asked. (He didn't ask and just 'did it' as was, and is his style.)
WHAT DONALD TRUMP WANTED WITH THOSE FILES MIGHT HAVE BEEN TO 'AUCTION' THEM OFF IN THE DARK GLOBAL MARKETS TO FOREIGN ACTORS AND INTERESTS...(ESPECIALLY TO THE PROXIES OF VLADIMIR PUTIN).
The nature of the FBI's 'Mar-a-Lago' warrant can be made available by Trump but he has chosen to keep it private...but some media 'opinionists' surmise that the recovered documents included highly classified materials closely linked to national security issues.
Trump's 'absconding' with White House documents is just the latest item in the Trump legacy of unpredictable behavior that on the surface is seemingly erratic, but by this blogger is totally in-character with Trump. Trump's behavior in nearly everything he does is with the objective of paying obeisance (and money) to his long-term (decades) debtors who are mostly third party foreign factors, principally Vladimir Putin...even during the Trump presidency.
To this blogger, it is fascinating to observe the mental contortions the media pundits have subjected their brains to to try to make 'normal' sense of Trump's actions...when Trump is actually a simple read: Trump is in deep debt especially to foreign parties, and in particular has been vitally dependent on the good graces of Russia's dictator, Vladimir Putin to whom Trump has publicly cowered before like a vassal and whose foreign policy interests Trump openly supported during the Trump presidency, even when Putin's foreign policy conflicted with America's. (Trump's vowed goal of disbanding NATO was a primary example of his pro-Putin clash with established American foreign policy.)
The 'Why' of Trump's favoritism towards Russia as consistent theme is a subject of this blog post.
Trump's tolerant and indeed championing of Russia, and particularly Trump's personal allegiance to Putin is simply a matter of money - owed debts, promised gain and probably Russian blackmail (Kompromat).
A primary example of foreign power 'kompromat' against Trump is the rumored machinations of the Russian KGB (GRU) to entrap him with seductions by prostitutes ...as written about in Craig Unger's 2021 book, "American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery". (This blogger would add 'Treason' to Unger's list of kompromat.)
This blogger figured back in 2016 that Trump’s claim that he was a ‘billionaire’ hid that in although he was partner to several billions of assets, those assets were (are) loaded down with nearly the same level of debt so that their net value is ‘only’ several hundred million$, and that Trump is sole owner of practically none.
Trump's financial life has been a life of struggle to keep himself (and his family) financially afloat because he is not, nor ever was a good businessman. But he has shown a particular 'talent' for grifting off a carefully tended 'brand'.
Trump's formula has been to profit off of 'being famous for claiming to be famous' or merely manipulating media exposure - the new 21st century American gimmick for striking it rich. (Why work at 'it' when one can use the media against itself by manipulating the media to give oneself free advertising, hence generating money-equating media 'views'.) All of this is faux celebrity status created by by pinning on oneself a badge of notoriety or celebrity no matter how vacuous or fake ('Branding.')
Where it all started: the Trump's learned the trick of building and protecting the 'Trump' brand name which in itself has no more real value than the faux-celebrity real value of the Kardashian 'brand' ...but at least the Kardashians are open about the nature of their 'business' so the public both knows this and relishes the entertainment the Kardashians' extravagant life styles ...thus satisfying the public's apparently 'needed' (addictive?) vicarious alternatives to the American humdrum reality.
Trump's lifestyle of gold bathroom fixtures, private jets and multiple homes is mostly surface gloss ('bling' in the language of his lesser street-hustler kin).
Trump has almost perfected living off the ‘Vig’ from creating new deals at 2–5% upfront broker’s fees. (But while that is probably OK in the fast track business world, those ‘skills’ are not appropriate for being President or running a nation…especially the most powerful on the planet, the United States.) Truetehrmp had supported himself and his 'world' of many-layered businesses by pursing the 'bigs' of new deals. But this required him to constantly be on the look-out for new deals, and new patsy's who would fall for the Trump hype.
This is why Trump came into the Presidency in 2016 practically ‘owned’ by Russia’s dictator Vladimir Putin — Trump was expecting Putin to complete the authorization for a ‘Moscow-Trump Tower’ deal, inflated from a ‘normal’ 50 million to over 200–400 million $, which would have gifted Trump with a minimum 10 -15 million $ broker’s fee, and similarly given Putin his personal upfront cut of 25–50 million $. (And, all those fees, both to Trump, and to Putin and his Russian oligarch co-grifters, would be deosited into proxie accounts at Alpha Bank in Cyprus.) Whether the project would ever be carried through was unimportant to Trump at the time — it was the upfront signing fee he was counting on to help him pay current debt service and contirnue his living ‘like’a billionaire for several more months until (while he, like a constantly moving shark, created new deals using the leverage of his new power and influence as President throughout the world.
Maintaining the flow of broker-fees was why Trump flouted (had to flout) traditional boundaries of personal business activities observed by American Presidents. Trump’s life depended on his breaking traditions while President.
This is why in future presidential elections, America must require complete financial transparency from all who want to run for President.
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