SELLING BOOKS BY
REINVENTING REALITY
A JACK RANDOM REVIEW
OF
KILLING THE DEEP
STATE:
THE FIGHT TO SAVE
PRESIDENT TRUMP
By Jerome Corsi
A Novel Charading as
History
Jerome Corsi, renowned conspiracy theorist and Washington
D.C. “bureau chief” for the rightwing website Info Wars, has published a new book plucked from the annals of
contemporary Republican Talking Points: Killing the Deep State – The
Fight to Save President Trump. The work is sure to be a bestseller and one of the least
read bestsellers in modern history.
This is how they
perpetuate Alternative Facts and call them the Truth. This is how they
manufacture a reality that conforms to their warped vision of a return to a
white dominated, Christian society free of restless minorities and vanity
driven liberals. This is how they
get back at the establishment father
figures that rejected their thoughts and ideas and forced them to toil in
relative obscurity.
As a writer of political fiction featuring grand
conspiracies (Ghost Dance Insurrection, A Patriot Dirge, Pawns to Players:
The Stairway Scandal, A Match for the White House, The Putin Gambit), I can admire the impudent boldness and mendacity
of a writer claiming to chronicle history when clearly his vision is the product
of pure imagination.
Corsi is a fully indoctrinated rightwing propagandist, plain
and simple. He is likely a failed
fiction writer who – like Bill O’Reilly – has discovered that if you write for
an entrenched political faction, they will buy your books – or at least pretend
to buy them in order to place them on the bestsellers list.
Jerome Corsi has written a book that is proudly fact
free. If you state a premise
rejecting all legitimate sources of information, including the New York Times
and the Mainstream Media, then you can be sure that what follows has little
resemblance to fact or truth in the real world.
Corsi asserts with feigned astonishment: “Just 24 hours after losing the
election, Hillary was already touting the Russian collusion theme.” The fact is: Russian interference in our election on behalf of Donald
Trump was established long before the election. Trump’s collusion was already under investigation.
Corsi asserts that the FBI as an institution was backing
Hillary and attempting to sabotage the Trump campaign. It is almost amusing how the rightwing
conspiracy theorists attempt to deal with the stone cold fact that then FBI
Director James Comey turned the election to Trump in the eleventh hour by
announcing that the bureau had reopened the Hillary Clinton email
investigation. Other than Vladimir
Putin, no one on the planet had a more prominent roll in placing Trump in the
White House than Comey.
Corsi asserts that the Obama-Clinton administration gave
Russia military technology and “20% of all US uranium production.” The fact is the Obama administration
attempted to secure Russian nuclear weapons and materials in an attempt to
block their deliverance to rogue nations or terrorists. The rest is pure fiction.
Corsi asserts that the “Deep
State” forced mainstream media to fire Glenn Beck, Pat Buchanan and Lou
Dobbs. Let me get this
straight: Fox fired Glenn Beck and
hired Lou Dobbs as a part of a mind control conspiracy? The fact: Beck was coming unhinged on the air. Buchanan and Dobbs are old and
withered. Their place on the
airwaves had run its course.
Corsi asserts that former
president Obama is actively pushing black America against Trump. The truth: Black America needs no help from Obama to turn against a man
who declined to criticize the KKK on the eve of the Alabama primary and
pretended he didn’t know former Grand Wizard David Duke.
Corsi asserts that an FBI agent
softened the wording of James Comey’s speech decrying Hillary’s handling of her
emails from “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless”. Really? If that’s the best the Deep State could do we have
absolutely nothing to worry about.
Corsi asserts that the
government covered up the fact that the Christopher Steele dossier was a
fake. It was and is not a fake and
renaming it the Fusion GPS dossier does not change that fact. Republicans sponsored it in the
primaries and Democrats took over after Trump won the nomination. Who cares? The dirty dossier remains compelling and its contents have
largely been validated.
Corsi asserts that Trump has a
plan. He will manufacture or
otherwise use a “game-changing national security crisis” to decimate the Deep
State. This is hardly news. All presidents use the inevitable
national security crisis to their political advantage. Given the president’s record for
competence, however, good luck with that.
The fact is: There may well be a Deep State in some
sense of the term but my suspicion is those who belong to it are extremely
wealthy individuals who control the global flow of money. (The Donald only wishes he could join
them but he’s neither rich enough nor powerful enough. He’s only a temporary chief executive.) They meet in places like Davos and they
manipulate governments and markets to facilitate their profits. They are not spies who have infiltrated
the institutions of government.
That sort of thing happens but the Deep State wouldn’t bother.
A question for you: If I’m right and the Deep State is a
secret cabal of money-motivated elites who gather power through wealth, why
wouldn’t they fall in line behind Donald Trump? The Donald poses no threat as president or businessman and
has already delivered a historic tax cut to the richest of the rich.
If you conspiracy theorists want
some real fiction try Pawns to Players – The Chess Trilogy. I
assure you these three works will get you a lot closer to the truth than the
hackneyed work of some Harvard educated propagandist.
A final note: Corsi advertises his book as a New York
Times bestseller but I can find no evidence of that endorsement. (Source: Paid Advertisement, Modesto Bee 5/16/18.)
Jack Random, Author of the
Jazzman Chronicles
