Here’s a conspiracy theory/recurrent pondering of mine about the 2016 election for which I have no proof, just a gut instinct that something was very amiss with Trump’s “GOP Insurgency”.
When Trump entered the race and began his run, he began using “spin messaging” that struck me as Clinton machine spin messaging. I’ve been studying the Clinton spin, which evolved to dominate the entire Democratic Party, since the 1990s, trying to understand how it works. Clinton spin operations work only with massive mass media amplification and mass media smear campaigns. With the Clinton spin operations, the efficient use of spreading their talking points spin messaging among political operatives and friendly media took hold. Many people within the American news media and Hollywood work to spread that spin messaging.
With the advent of social media, Twitter serves as the online hang-out for the American news media and political punditry class, Twitter is where American news is generated and amplified, with rapid fire retweets. It’s almost like trained dogs now, as many journalists repeat Dem spin messaging verbatim and treat it as verified reporting, just like Republicans repeat pro-Trump spin The mainstream media relies on only anti-Trump sources as their “trusted sources” Each side runs their spin/news reporting within an impenetrable echo chamber.
Until Donald Trump, the Republicans lost in the spin messaging battle in the mainstream media for decades. Republicans and conservatives complained often and loudly about “media bias,” but it wasn’t “bias”, it was a corrupt news system, where the mainstream media worked to amplify the Dems spin messaging, Without the media being a willing and active participant in the Dems spin messaging operations, spin messaging would not work.
So, along came Donald Trump and he was spinning just like the Dems and staging rally roadshows, but he had no normal campaign structure. What he had was not only massive FOX News spin messaging amplification, he had massive mainstream media amplification? Why was the mainstream media working to amplify Trump’s “GOP Insurgency” spin messaging?
Well, as 2016 rolled along, through Wikileaks’ leaked Podesta emails, we learned that the Clinton campaign had a Pied Piper strategy to promote the most divisive GOP candidates during the GOP primary So, who were the most divisive GOP candidates? Ted Cruz, with his very conservative views and the “GOP Insurgent”, Donald J. Trump. Funny thing though, the mainstream media did not give Ted Cruz a lot of free media, but Trump received billions of dollars worth of free media, with CNN and MSNBC lavishing Trump with positive media coverage, covering his rallies live and Chuck Todd, the Hillary Clinton hack, even allowed Trump to just phone in interviews. Why?
Trump’s “GOP Insurgency” was a massive Dem spin hoax perpetrated against the GOP to sabotage their primary, in my opinion.
The Clinton machine constructs elaborate, spin operations (it’s comprehensive information warfare strategies they develop). For instance, this Trump Impeachment spin drama (Trump-Ukraine) was in the works for months, along with the book, Gutsy Women, Hillary and Chelsea are doing the media rounds hawking. That book was ghost written by someone and meant to be a stage prop for Hillary to enter the 2020 race as the “rightful President, who had the election stolen from her”, but never fear she is going to fight to protect our democracy… if Democrats will only rally around her and do their patriotic duty to destroy Trump… “who is destroying our democracy.” She’s going to con (strong-arm, if necessary) Democrats to unite behind her to deal with this existential crisis ( a crisis their spin show manufactures). Okay, let’s be honest the one who goes around strong-arming Democrats is Bill Clinton (see 2016 Loretta Lynch tarmac meeting or photos of Clinton-Obama golfing at Martha’s vineyard in 2015).
I strongly suspect Trump never intended to be president, but wanted to use the publicity to boost his reality TV business. I believe there was some kind of deal between Trump and Bill Clinton, where Trump would get all this mainstream media attention, running this “GOP Insurgency” con job. Yes, I believe the Clintons and Trump both conned us in 2016.
I also suspect that in late 2015/early 2016, when the Clinton machine began unloading their mountains of Trump dirt, they’d been sitting on while running the Trump GOP Insurgency on mainstream media, Trump realized he had been double-crossed by Bill Clinton. Trump doesn’t make deals with little people, he wants to deal only with the head honcho, which leads me to Bill Clinton, Trump’s old golfing buddy.
Unfortunately for the Clintons, Trump’s populist spin messaging worked better than anyone dreamed, plus many demoralized Republicans, used to always losing in the media messaging battle, joined the Trump train in hopes that finally some Republican would beat the Democrats at their own spin game. Trump’s impossible to ignore reality TV show theatrics helped him enormously too.
If you wonder why the mainstream media has spent the entirety of Trump’s presidency whining about which Trump spokespeople should be allowed on CNN and MSNBC and trying to ban Trump from Twitter, it’s because Trump barged into their corrupt spin messaging turf and they aren’t used to a level playing field. Biden was urging the mainstream media to ban Rudy Giuliani just this past weekend, because Biden claims Rudy will just lie. Democrats make this claim as they are relentlessly running corrupt spin messaging to shutdown Trump and anyone connected with him. It’s a corrupt cesspool, where Dems wage orchestrated smear campaigns to ruthlessly achieve their political objectives and the mainstream media runs with it. The corruption is so obvious, for instance, the mainstream media calls the Mueller probe an “investigation” with Barr’s investigation it’s “dirt-digging” or a “scheme. This is how the spin word games go.
When Trump won the election, he did not look happy and he had no real plans in place for actually being president. I suspect his rage at the double-cross and being subjected to non-stop Dem smear operations, made him determined to adjust and instead of going back to his Reality TV show, he turned the US presidency into the biggest reality TV show in the world.
I strongly believe both campaigns in 2016 were thoroughly corrupt. Both were engaged in seeking Russian dirt and both ran repulsive spin operations. Trump also embraced the Dems smear campaign tactics.
With that said, at some point both campaigns wholesale public corruption will become so flagrant and undeniable, especially if, as I would bet money on it, it’s a 2020 rematch of Hillary and Trump, that I wonder how our country will be able to hold together, as they run nuclear level scorched earth spin war 24/7.
America is in for a total spin nightmare, but if the corruption of both Trump and the Clintons ever gets exposed, the Clintons and Trump will join forces to survive – that is my prediction. It will be the Clintons and Trump destroying any law enforcement effort that attempts to stop them. They are above the law as long as they control the corrupt media spin operations in America.
I’ll remain forever, proudly, NeverTrump & NeverHillary.
Defending The Constitution always, that’s where my loyalty lies… not with any politicians or political party.
No one should be above the law.
Update to my conspiracy theory ponderings, October 2, 2019: Suppose Trump doesn’t even really know that his old golfing buddy was behind the entire “GOP Insurency” Dem spin hoax and instead relied on some media peeps to con Trump into believing they were supporting him and they gave Trump this billions of dollars worth of free media. That might better explain Trump’s ranting about Jeff Zucker and Joe and Mika, lol, that’s for sure.
This is all just a conspiracy theory of mine and I don’t have a single shred of proof, just clues:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-2-billion-free-media_us_56e83410e4b065e2e3d75935
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/03/15/the-medias-2b-gift-to-trump/
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/donald-trump-free-tv-ad-217387
Here’s an example of the liberal media con game, I’m referring to: “Les Moonves Exposes the Trump Media Game” a 2016 piece by Stephen L. Miller at National Review:
“Fox News granted two nights of town-hall coverage to GOP’s primary candidates to fight over. The night before, MSNBC’s Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski had allotted a full primetime hour to Trump.
On the eve of Super Tuesday, Trump sat down in person for an interview with Sean Hannity. On the same night, Trump’s wife, Melania, was sitting down for an interview with Anderson Cooper; this was fresh off the heels of her interview with Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe.
The Sunday-morning news shows allow Trump to call in for interviews, something practically unheard of for presidential candidates. Yet Chuck Todd, George Stephanopoulos, and Chris Wallace all allow Trump to do so. And last year, CNN even shelved its long-planned tenth-anniversary Hurricane Katrina special hosted by Anderson Cooper. In its place, they aired a post-Trump-rally special with Don Lemon.
TMZ, both online and on their television show, routinely run segments on Trump, as does ET! Greta Van Susteren has frequently invited Trump’s sons on as guests, either in the studio, via satellite, or on the phone. CNN and MSNBC carry Trump’s campaign rallies in full — and Fox, too. Media outlets breathlessly hang on his every word and insult and bombastic threat or incitement, and then they become instantly appalled when one of their own is choke-slammed to the ground by Trump security guards. Such reactions from them are telling.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/03/donald-trump-media-they-use-him-make-money-help-hillary/
Update, October 6, 2019: As I was thinking a bit more about this, I remembered this other tidbit of information that had been reported – the Trump-Bill Clinton phone call right before Trump entered the race. Here’s an August 5, 2015 report:
“According to several Trump sources (and one Clinton source) who spoke to the Post, the two men spoke over the phone in late May, shortly before Trump announced his run in June. During the call, the Trump sources said, Clinton “encouraged Trump’s efforts to play a larger role in the Republican Party” and “analyzed Trump’s prospects and his desire to rouse the G.O.P. base.”
That conversation, said the anonymous Trump sources, certainly didn’t discourage the billionaire to run: while Clinton never outright told Trump to enter the race, he reportedly told Trump that he was “striking a chord with frustrated conservatives and was a rising force on the right,” and his tone was supposedly “encouraging.”
(This is something a political genius would tell someone with a desire to run for president, especially if that person was a known self-promoter, capable of sucking the air out of a room full of his opponents—and especially if the genius’s wife happened to be running in the party against that known self-promoter.)”
The Vanity Fair article quoted a Washington Post story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bill-clinton-called-donald-trump-ahead-of-republicans-2016-launch/2015/08/05/e2b30bb8-3ae3-11e5-b3ac-8a79bc44e5e2_story.html
Update October 8, 2019: Another tidbit to add to the my “GOP Insurgent” conspiracy theory came from Howard Stern, friend of Trump’s, who had Trump on his radio show many times. From a 2017 report:
“Howard Stern has argued nobody was more keen for Hillary Clinton to win than Donald Trump himself.
The radio personality, who is America’s most notorious shock jock, said President Trump was being serious when he recently admitted to missing his “old life”.
In an interview with Reuters ahead of the 100-day mark of his presidency last week, Mr Trump said: “I loved my previous life. I had so many things going. This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier.””
Further in this article:
“Stern recounts being at Mr Trump’s 126-room Mar-a-Lago resort “when he first announced he was going to win” however it is unclear if he is referring to winning the Republican nomination or the November election.”
And this 2019 article:
“Stern also backed up his statement that Trump did not actually want to be president by noting he was hanging around Mar-a-Lago with Trump and his team when the run was being plotted.
“I know people who orchestrated some of these things,” Stern said. “I was at Mar-a-Lago around when it was announced that Donald was going to run for president, and like everyone else, I thought, Ha-ha-ha. So, knowing Donald, I can tell you with some assurance that I don’t believe that he thought anyone would buy in. Lo and behold, people did. But I’m pretty sure that there was no intention of actually being president.””
Here’s the Trump supporter take, which dismisses Stern’s comments:
“An enduring myth about President Trump’s phenomenal 2016 campaign is that the whole thing was a lark, a stunt intended to do nothing but build Trump’s “brand” and make him more famous.
The only reason this tale persists is because it feeds into the media narrative that Trump’s victory was a freak accident and his supporters are a bunch of idiot patsies.”
I don’t believe Trump supporters were patsies, I believe that mass media spin to the tune of billions of dollars in free media can sell just about anything to large number of Americans, then couple that with the anger within conservative circles that the GOP consistently lost to the Dem spin game. Along came a guy who fought back in the media and was actually winning the spin game. Added to this, among conservatives who jumped on board the Trump train a viewpoint was aggressively put forth that the Left’s culture war was destroying America and 2016 was our last best hope of saving America – the Flight 93 doctrine, a morally-bankrupt binary choice argument for Trump, was born:
https://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/
libertybelle diaries 
“Gut instinct” huh, seems alot of that’s going around lately:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2019/10/when-corruption-becomes-reason-for.html
That was an interesting read there, JK.
All I can say is everything about Trump’s “GOP Insurgency” primary spin crap show in the mainstream media smells like a Dem spin theater production, then came the Dump on Trump pivot and by mid 2016, the Clintons were leaning on the Obama administration to close the email investigation, just as the Trump-Russia Dem operations escalated (they were worried about Trump gaining steam – Clintons live and breathe polling).
What has always made me think Trump was in on the “GOP Insurgency” Dem spin drama was his outrage when his close friend, Jeff Zucker and Joe Scarborough and Mika turned on him.
Trump spent his adult life buying influence with corrupt Dem politicians – he knew just how the Dem corruption racket works – he was part of it. Anyone who think the Clintons would be offended by Trump’s Obama birther crazy, should remember the Clinton campaign spread a lot of that type of Obama dirt in 2008.
The dislike between the Clintons and Obama is palpable and the only thing that saved Hillary in the email investigation is Obama’s use of a private gmail account emailing Hillary sensitive info on an upcoming foreign trip FBI Notes in the Huma Abedin – indicated Russia was the topic of that email when she was shown that email. The corruption is everywhere.
I can guarantee that the Clinton machine will be stealthily dumping spin hits on Elizabeth Warren to erode her as the front-runner, once Biden’s knocked out, even while publicly Hillary will be smiling and acting like Warren’s best friend. The Clintons will make sure the Dems begin panic mode, facing the prospect of candidates who have no chance of competing with Trump. Then Hillary will prance in, willing to answer the call of duty to unite Democrats and lead the charge against Trump.
Yeah I kinda see a rerun too with the Dems field big as the Repubs was last go round. Seems whenever that’s happened in our history some “unexpected *outsider*” shows up just in the nick of time. ‘Cept I got this little feeling there’s not gonna be enough people can get rounded up keen on carrying all the baggage.
I wish now I was a lottery ticket buyer or could otherwise maybe inherit from somebody I never was aware of ’cause I sure wish I had a pile I could invest in popcorn futures with.
“‘Cept I got this little feeling there’s not gonna be enough people can get rounded up keen on carrying all the baggage.”
Well, the Clintons going down would expose decades of Dem corruption and a heap of Obama administration corruption too… the powers that be in DemLand will privately hold their noses, take a deep breath, dutifully paste a smile on their faces and repeat, “I’m with HER!”
The Clinton machine corruption runs deep within the Democratic Party.
Maybe. Maybe not.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/zuckerberg-says-if-warren-becomes-president-facebook-would-sue-us-govt-you-go-to-the-mat-and-fight/ar-AAI7c2J