"Well funded cabal of powerful people" secured the election(shadow campaign, changed laws)

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GQ: Have You Heard the One About the Clinton-Soros Plot to Overthrow Trump?Posted on 12/10/17 at 5:57 pm

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Have You Heard the One About the Clinton-Soros Plot to Overthrow Trump?

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Across Washington, the sort of theories that once elicited laughs are now finding powerful proponents. Why are Erik Prince and other self-proclaimed “nationalists” in Trump’s orbit so concerned with liberal billionaire George Soros?

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On Monday, The Intercept reported that along with an associate, Prince—the Blackwater founder and all-around international man of intrigue—has been pitching Donald Trump’s White House and the president’s allies on the creation of a private network of spies that would operate outside the normal structure of the CIA. Prince has denied the Intercept story, though CNN, citing an unnamed official, confirmed its broad outlines on Tuesday.

But there’s more. The Intercept reported that Prince’s partner in the venture, a former CIA officer, has been making some mighty wild claims: That White House national-security adviser H.R. McMaster has ordered surveillance of Trump’s family and of Steve Bannon, and that McMaster has “used a burner phone to send information gathered through the surveillance to a facility in Cyprus owned by George Soros.”

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Prince himself recently endorsed a separate jaw-dropping theory about Soros: He suspects the magnate of trying to orchestrate an effort to sabotage the Trump administration through a so-called “Purple Revolution.” This campaign of resistance was purported to have begun in the moments right after the election, spurred along—supposedly—by Hillary Clinton and her husband, who each wore purple on stage as Clinton offered her concession speech in November 2016.

Prince’s suspicions about a “Purple Revolution” offer a window into his worldview and those of his fellow travelers, self-proclaimed upstart “nationalists” who are waging something of a cloak-and-dagger fight to wrest control of U.S. intelligence, national security, and foreign-policy interests from the establishment players they call “globalists.” In the view of these nationalists, they are up against a well-coordinated and ruthless campaign by many of the country’s most powerful people to undo, and if necessary overthrow, Trump’s government. Such threats to democracy, they posit, could justify extreme measures in response.

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TRUMP WHITE HOUSE WEIGHING PLANS FOR PRIVATE SPIES TO COUNTER “DEEP STATE” ENEMIES

Matthew Cole, Jeremy Scahill
December 4 2017, 9:24 p.m.

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THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is considering a set of proposals developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a retired CIA officer — with assistance from Oliver North, a key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal — to provide CIA Director Mike Pompeo and the White House with a global, private spy network that would circumvent official U.S. intelligence agencies, according to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials and others familiar with the proposals. The sources say the plans have been pitched to the White House as a means of countering “deep state” enemies in the intelligence community seeking to undermine Donald Trump’s presidency.

The creation of such a program raises the possibility that the effort would be used to create an intelligence apparatus to justify the Trump administration’s political agenda.

“Pompeo can’t trust the CIA bureaucracy, so we need to create this thing that reports just directly to him,” said a former senior U.S. intelligence official with firsthand knowledge of the proposals, in describing White House discussions. “It is a direct-action arm, totally off the books,” this person said, meaning the intelligence collected would not be shared with the rest of the CIA or the larger intelligence community. “The whole point is this is supposed to report to the president and Pompeo directly.”

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“[Maguire] said there were people inside the CIA who joined in the previous eight years [under Obama] and inside the government, and they were failing to give the president the intelligence he needed,” said a person who was pitched by Maguire and other Amyntor personnel. To support his claim, Maguire told at least two people that National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, in coordination with a top official at the National Security Agency, authorized surveillance of Steven Bannon and Trump family members, including Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. Adding to these unsubstantiated claims, Maguire told the potential donors he also had evidence McMaster used a burner phone to send information gathered through the surveillance to a facility in Cyprus owned by George Soros.

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