The following story is based on actual events. However, it may include statements that are enhancements of known truths or alternate versions of what could have happened. This is my story.
In 2015, Donald J. Trump announced his candidacy for President of the United States. A celebrity businessman with a reputation of questionable real estate and financial dealings including accusations of local, state and federal tax evasion. He was also the star of “The Apprentice” TV reality show; known for creating environments that challenged the creativity as well as the loyalty and character of the show’s participants. For most of his adult life, he also flip flopped between affiliations with the Democrat and Republican parties. Even though Trump had tried running for president before, he was always considered a rogue and out of step with most Americans. However, this time around, he found an opening in the political arena where the Republican opponents were unproven, had their own issues with credibility and experience and were all trying to say the same message. The Democrats had a field of candidates that represented positions that were either too liberal or an extension of the outgoing Obama administration. Trump saw the chance to jump into the fray with extreme views that prayed on the fear and disenchantment of many voters; primarily Republican but also some Independent and Democrats.
During the Republican primaries, most of the presidential candidates including other senior GOP members, called out Trump for being a kook, fraud, con man, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, adulterer, sexual abuser and other derogatory titles. In many cases, there were audio and video recordings of Trump to substantiate these accusations. However, Trump just smiled and blew the comments off as jealousy, sour grapes and a conspiracy by lifelong politicians to protect their control over the government and the American people. In the meantime, Trump went on the campaign trail using the power of network, digital and social media to share his message for free. He boasted how he was a billionaire due to his business savvy, how he was the least racist person alive, how he was a friend of Israel and a champion of the Jews in the US, he had friends in the LGBTQ community and that all women loved him. He was able to convince a large group of people that all of their troubles were a result of them being taken for granted by the Federal government and their livelihoods were being threatened by illegal immigrants and non-citizens of the USA. Infighting among the Republican candidates continued and as they dropped out of the presidential race one by one, Trump’s position as the leading contender grew until he eventually won the Republican nomination for President.
As Trump’s popularity grew, his longtime Russian ally, Vladimir Putin, fueled his ego by encouraging him to bring down his Democratic opponents, especially Hillary Clinton, by making accusations there was a “deep state” in America undermining American values, ignoring the Constitution and there were thousands of emails on private servers to substantiate the claim. Trump and his conservative news pundits (i.e. Fox News, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, etc.) repeated these accusations at every opportunity including Trump publicly asking foreign governments to come forward with any information incriminating the Democrats; (Trump: “Russia, if you can, access Hilary’s server for missing emails.”) Unfortunately, Hillary Clinton took the bait and began taking a defensive position rather than taking the offense and revealing the true character of Trump. She also made the mistake of lumping all Trump supporters under the label as a “bunch of deplorables”. This helped galvanize the Republican Party where before, some were hesitant about Trump being their torch bearer. At the same time, the Russians started a media campaign of spreading disinformation using social media platforms by disguising themselves as legitimate US organizations even private citizens. The campaign of distortion and lies was run on both Democrat and Republican media resulting in pitting the two sides against one another. In the meantime, Trump campaign strategists identified those parcels of swing states where if successful, they could get enough of the vote to turnout in favor of Trump and slightly, but just enough, to tip the Electoral vote in Trump’s favor without having to win the overall popular vote.
On Election Day 2016, Trump surprised all the pollsters and mainstream networks by winning the election by garnering enough Electoral votes while losing the popular vote. Trump gloated in his victory while Hillary Clinton accepted defeat. But at the same time, there were questions all around wondering how Trump appeared to pull out the implausible win. This is where theories, speculation and fantasy come together to explain unusual events during the years 2016 through 2020.
First, how did so many GOP congressional members and former political opponents change their disdain and distrust of Donald Trump to unbridled admiration and unwavering loyalty? Remember the Russians? During their search for dirt on the Democrats and Hillary Clinton, they also looked for dirt on his former opponents (beggar) Lindsey Graham, (lyin’) Ted Cruz, (little) Marco Rubio and other Republicans. They hit the motherlode resulting in Trump having enough damaging information to ruin their careers. When confronted with the evidence, all sold their souls and became disciples of Trump; believing anything he said and doing anything he asked. Other GOP congressional members saw their loyalty to Trump as a way to gain power and be available for key positions when Trump transformed the USA from a democratic nation to an authoritarian or fascist state. This included Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz and others who modeled their loyalty to Trump as that of Heinrich Himmler to Adolf Hitler.
Next, as investigations into Russian meddling in the election began to take place, Trump dug in his heels and resisted any suggestion that Russia had anything to do with him winning. However, the Robert Mueller special council investigation as well as Senate and House committees with members of both parties concluding the Russians did influence the election through deceptive and misinformation political advertisements and social media posts. In addition, several associates of Trump and his campaign were arrested and found guilty of campaign irregularities including meeting with Russian operatives. Still Trump claimed a Russian hoax was initiated by the Democrats and there was absolutely no evidence of Russian collusion by his campaign.
In a private meeting between Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, Trump asked Putin for more assistance in disparaging his opponents while strengthening his stranglehold on his closest associates. Putin provided a copy of his self-help book “The 10 Best Ways to Arrange Quid Pro Quo”. Since Trump doesn’t read books, he asked for the VHS version of the movie. Unfortunately, no video or audio version of the book existed but Putin did supply some cliffs notes. Trump tried out the suggestions by asking for assistance from Ukraine President Zelensky to uncover dirt on Joe and Hunter Biden and missing DNC servers. He also asked China during trade negotiations that they needed to throw the American farmers a bone or two to put him in good favor with them after enacting tariffs on their products going to China. However, Trump forgot that as President, most conversations with foreign leaders (other than Putin) usually involve representatives from multiple government agencies and transcripts of the meetings can become available to the media. These attempts at quid pro quo resulted in some uncomfortable discussions between House and Senate representatives of both parties.
During this same 2018 meeting with Putin, Trump asked how else Russia might be able to assist in securing a second term by winning the 2020 election. Putin said he would get back to him later.
In a move to strengthen Trump’s self-proclaimed reputation as a shrewd negotiator and ability to close the deal, he decided to pursue a meeting with Kim Jung Un of North Korea. Even though Trump belittled Kim in multiple speeches, including one to the UN General Assembly calling him Rocket Man, he believed that a simple meeting with Kim would result in a Nobel Peace Prize. During their first meeting in Singapore on June 12, 2018, options were discussed that would result in the US lifting sanctions against North Korea in exchange for their dismantling of their nuclear missiles and uranium enrichment facilities. A verbal agreement was reached in principle with details to be discussed during their second meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam.
At the second meeting in Hanoi, Trump presented his offer of economic relief first. Details included the building of a new golf course in North Korea called the Un-Trump Invitational Golf Club. He told Kim that it would be the best golf course in the world and other countries leaders would do almost anything to be invited to come and play with the Supreme Leader of the Peoples Republic. Kim liked the idea and agreed to the proposal and in exchange, he would give the keys and launch codes to the nuclear missiles to his lovely and honorable sister for safe keeping. Trump agreed to Kim’s proposal. But the next Trump proposal resulted in the meeting being quickly suspended. Trump said the US would finance and build a chain of DJ’s Burgers and Shakes restaurants throughout North Korea. Kim was overcome by glee until the franchisee terms were read. In order to appeal to the American farmers and beef and dairy producers, all ingredients had to be purchased and ordered from the US; no exceptions. Kim responded that the North Koreans wouldn’t be able to afford the food coming from the US. Instead, he proposed using dog and cat meat for the burgers and rice pudding for the shakes; food that was more palatable to the Korean taste buds. Trump thought about it for a while and asked if his son Eric could move to North Korea to manage the business. Kim said “no” as all restaurant managers had to be family so they could easily be executed if they failed their performance review. While Trump didn’t think that would be a problem with Eric, because Trump would not gain any advantage at home for building the restaurants, the offer was withdrawn and talks ceased.
On June 30, 2019 in a final effort to salvage the deal, Trump met again with Kim Jong Un at the DMZ where the two of them conducted a taste test between Mc Donald’s hamburgers and DPRK9 burgers. Unfortunately, Trump couldn’t convince Kim the McDonald’s burgers tasted better so they shook hands and parted company. However, Trump did give Kim a gift certificate for a free golf cart rental at any Trump course outside the US. Kim gifted Trump a bottle of DPRK spray cologne to give to Melania claiming it was made from nectar extracted from rare flowers native to Wuhan, China. Trump put the cologne in his pocket with the intent of giving it to Melania for Christmas.
In May 2019, after it became apparent that Joe Biden was the front runner for the Democratic nominee for president, Trump became discouraged that he hadn’t received any credible or incredible information regarding illegal dealings with foreign governments or businesses by either Joe or Hunter Biden. Trump reached out to his friend Putin to find out where the Russians were on election assistance. After pausing for a moment, Putin came back with a radical plan that would involve some risk by Trump. Putin proposed planting some malware into key government servers so they could upload information indicating that Obama, Biden and Hillary Clinton conspired with NATO and China to steal the 2016 election from Trump in exchange for lifetime payments of $150,000 per month disguised as lottery payments. At first Trump was leery of the plan and asked for a demonstration of how detailed the malware could be used. Putin agreed and told him to call back in two weeks. It could be a coincident, but shortly after the call, Trump started experiencing incidents where his toilets had to be flushed multiple times to dispose of sensitive documents he wanted to keep secret, take longer showers to rinse the coloring solution out of his hair and Eric Trump complained that his dishwasher at home wouldn’t clean his dishes without a presoak. As planned, Trump called Putin back in two weeks for an update on the malware demo. But before Putin could answer, Trump began ranting about all the water problems with toilets, shower heads and dishwashers. Putin’s hesitated and then said; “Pretty impressive demo, yes? We managed to introduce some special Nanites into the US water systems that could restrict water flow to specific fixtures at specific locations. They are harmless as they dissolve after a few months exposed to the fluoride in the water.” Trump was impressed and asked what he could do with the Nanites to secure the election in his favor. Then the plan was outlined in great detail.
First, the Russian malware had to be introduced into the government servers using secured email accounts. Trump gave the White House email addresses of Don Jr. and Eric to Putin. In addition, he shared the secure email addresses of his appointed DOJ and intelligence officers. He told Putin to disguise the emails as them winning free MAGA or Proud Boy tee shirts. Opening the attachment to claim their prize would introduce the malware into the email servers. After the malware was planted in the servers, Putin promised Trump that the Nanites would be preprogrammed to search out voting machines and scanners in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Once they planted themselves into the voting machines, they would lie dormant until Election Day. But the plan came with a warning. The Nanites could only be effective in machines in polling places and only had enough energy to operate for 12 hours once they were activated. This meant the program would only work on Election Day. Any votes cast before Election Day, or any votes counted after Election Day could not be controlled. Trump would have to go on the offensive to discourage all pre-election day voting and plant the seed of corruption for mail in ballots. In addition, as not to arouse suspicion, Trump was told the Nanites would only affect the voting and counting machines in strategic locations where Biden could potentially pull out an upset victory. Also, Trump was advised that unless he was announced the winner on Election Day by all the major news networks, he was to remain calm but confident and not declare victory for at least 24 hours after the polls closed. Trump agreed to the details of the plans and Russia sent the bogus emails to the designated addresses. Trump waits for Election Day and in the meantime, sets the seeds of mistrust in pre-election voting. However, he failed to realize that his opponents would be advocating mail-in and absentee voting. So rather than encourage his supporters to do the same, he stayed on script denouncing the early voting efforts.
With access to the servers, the Russians begin navigating through the networks installing the malware and spyware throughout government computers. All the time not letting it slip that they had no Nanite technology and couldn’t manipulate the voting machines. Next Chapter – Election Day Surprise, The Democrats pull the upset and outsmart “the most stable genius”.
