What's Up with the Plan to Do Away with the President

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. says that James W. Douglass’s JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, is the best book on his uncle’s assassination. In Chapter One of that book Douglass traces JFK’s evolution from the cold warrior, who taunted Richard Nixon about a missile gap between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the 1960 presidential debates, to the man who stood against his entire military and foreign policy establishment to prevent a nuclear war in the Cuban Missile Crisis, culminating in his last years’ secret quest, with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, for nuclear disarmament and world peace.

Of note today, is the book’s description of JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Save for his brother Robert and, ironically, Nikita Khrushchev on the other side of the world, humanity was hurtling head long into thermonuclear destruction, not unlike the situation with respect to Ukraine today. Khrushchev had placed nuclear armed missiles in Cuba thinking it would deter the United States from further attempts to take over the island as happened in the Bay of Pigs fiasco. His declassified letters and notes make clear that he viewed it as a reciprocal tit for tat for the placement of U.S. nuclear weapons in Turkey on the Soviet border.

This Soviet provocation was obviously seen as existential by the government of the United States, with its more insane military and intelligence wings still reeling from what was considered to be the humiliation of the Bay of Pigs. During the crisis, there were multiple times when the Joint Chiefs had prepared retaliatory full-scale attacks on the island in retaliation to Soviet escalations that the President called off.

As recounted by Robert Kennedy, some of these incidents came so close to fruition that both the President and he believed the world was ending. At that point, John F. Kennedy lamented the children of the world, who bore no responsibility for the inability of their elders to solve this crisis and would suffer the end of the world as complete innocents.

Unknown to almost everyone, JFK and Khrushchev had carried on a secret correspondence dating back to 1961 in which they argued their respective postures in the world. In a last fateful exchange, a meeting at President Kennedy’s request between RFK and Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin, President Kennedy conveyed that the situation was grave and if it continued, he was unsure whether the military might overthrow him and seize power. Khrushchev was facing similar pressures. That meeting proved the turning point in ending the crisis with Khrushchev announcing soon after that he was withdrawing the missiles.

I think about this when I think about our situation today. We have had four years now where the office of the President of the United States has been occupied by a man who is obviously sundowning and senile. The woman installed to replace him by Democratic donors and elders is obviously not qualified for this office as the controlled media seeks to remake her and imbue her with fantastical qualities of mind that she does not possess. We endured an additional six years prior in which factions of our government, including the military and intelligence services fought a popular presidential candidate, Donald Trump, and then openly sought to subvert his presidency on behalf of their policies concerning war and peace which were opposed to his. In the process, they have ripped up whole sections of the Constitution.

In his interview with Tucker Carlson, RFK, Jr. said that the way that the Democratic oligarchy justifies this destruction of the critical office in our Constitutional Republic is by claiming that you’re not electing a person, you’re electing “an apparatus,” capable of running things. Yet, it was precisely the revolt of the specific individual president, John F. Kennedy, against that apparatus in 1962 which saved humanity from final destruction. For that revolt, it’s clear he paid with his life. It is also clear that ever since, the British oligarchy has sought to neuter the Constitutional power of that individual so oligarchs can continue to control the United States.

In the decision about presidential immunity written by Chief Justice John Roberts in Trump v. United States, the Chief Justice notes, “’The President ‘occupies a unique position in the constitutional scheme as the only person, who alone, composes a branch of government.’ The Framers ‘sought to encourage energetic, vigorous, decisive, and speedy execution of the laws by placing in the hands of a single, constitutionally indispensable, individual the ultimate authority that, in respect to the other branches, the Constitution divides among many.’ They ‘deemed an energetic executive essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks, the steady administration of the laws, the protection of property, and the security of liberty.’ The purpose of a ‘vigorous’ and ‘energetic’ Executive, they thought, was to ensure ‘good government,’ for a ‘feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.’” [Internal citations omitted].

Much of what Justice Roberts writes comes straight from Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States and Hamilton’s Federalist No. 70. The founders, having studied how Republics had previously been destroyed in history, settled on this individual form of the executive. Displacement or supplementation by a “council” or “apparatus” both make clear, disrupts the direct relationship between the President and the people and, most significantly, defeats accountability for the actions of the president by deflecting blame. It is the road to destruction. Each time our Republic has foundered or faced overwhelming challenges, it has been saved by a President exercising his individual genius as amplified by the Constitution, be it Washington, or Lincoln, or Roosevelt, or Kennedy. If we are to save our country now, we must elect a President capable of exercising the power of this office creatively, righteously, and courageously. That’s why there is only one choice in this election and that is, Donald J. Trump.