Dante Alighieri, in his masterful poem The Divine Comedy, portrays the afterlife as comprised of three realms: hell, purgatory and heaven. In his schematic, there are nine circles of hell, the deepest of which, where Satan himself dwells, is reserved for those who committed treachery. Cain, who killed his brother Abel, is there, among others. And who else resides in the lowest rungs of hell? Traitors to their righteous lords and leaders: Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus, along with Brutus and Cassius who betrayed Julius Caesar.

The treacherous White House Swampers who trumped Trump in the wake of the stolen election of 2020 might benefit from reading a copy of La Divina Comedia in translation—especially the Inferno.

ET TU, SHAKESPEARE?

Recall that less than a year after Trump’s landslide election that overwhelmed the Dems in spite of their professional cutting-edge cheating, New Yorkers were treated to their traditional summer Shakespeare in the Park festival. The chosen play? Julius Caesar. And in case we missed the point, they cast a man made to look like Trump with his signature “orange” hair and red tie, as Caesar. Then we all got to watch as the progressive heroes assassinated him in the public square—murdering the supposed tyrant.

Funny that Dante and Shakespeare saw it the other way around: Caesar was not the villain—the assassins were. But no matter how one views Shakespeare’s rendition of the story, it’s clear that Leftists in America were furious over Trump’s election and out for blood—and since July 13th 2024, we learned they’re out for blood literally as well as figuratively.

SNAKES IN THE GRASS

In a previous article, I criticized Trump for abandoning the Ship of State in the aftermath of the Color Revolution our nation underwent on November 4, 2020, and the deathblow that followed on January 6, 2021 that locked in the usurping regime. But it’s important that we understand what Trump was up against—particularly the heinous saboteurs in his inner circle.

Speaking of circles, one obvious candidate for the bottom circle of hell is Judas Pence, President Trump’s VP. But there was also a bevy of poisonous lawyers around the President, giving him terrible advice at best, and threatening him of dire consequences for standing up to the steal, at worst.

Ironically, as a result of one of the bogus lawfare cases against Trump, we’re currently getting an inside glimpse of our beleaguered President as he struggled to save the Republic, only to be undermined by his supposed loyal counselors, those snakes in expensive suits.

Fortuitously, we’ve now heard Trump’s former Deputy White House Counsel, Pat Philbin, giving bombshell testimony, probably inadvertently, as part of the disbarment case against Jeffrey Clark, formerly a DOJ official and Trump co-defendant in the Georgia “election interference” case. Mr. Clark’s crime and the reason Georgia officials seek to disbar him? He believed the election fraud, so apparent to at least half the nation, should be investigated!

PAT PHILBIN VS JEFFREY CLARK

And the bombshell?

The revelation that Trump’s trusted counsel, Pat Philbin himself, assured Trump there would be massive riots in every city in the nation if he challenged the election and won, and that the entire DOJ would resign in protest before that could take place. Phelonius Philbin even went so far as to round up other miscreants in the DOJ who eagerly embraced this treasonous gambit.

Here's what Philbin admitted to in his testimony regarding Jeffrey Clark, his former colleague and friend:

I believe that he felt that he essentially had a duty….I think Jeff’s view was that there was a real crisis in the country and that he was being given an opportunity to do something about it.

Personally, I’d say give that man the Presidential Medal of Freedom!

Here’s Philbin’s reaction to Clark’s wish to investigate the stolen election:

When Philbin warned Clark that there would be riots in every major American city if Trump reversed the outcome of the election, Clark responded, ‘Well, Pat, that’s what the Insurrection Act is for,’ Philbin recalled. (Emphasis mine)

“I tried to explain to him that it was a bad idea for multiple reasons,” Philbin emphasized in his testimony. “He would be starting down a path of assured failure … If by some miracle somehow, it worked, there’d be riots in every major city in the country and it was not an outcome the country would accept.” (Emphasis mine)

Such is the rationalization of a backstabber.

POLITICO TURNS THE STORY UPSIDE DOWN

Here's Politico’s leftist spin on the same story:

It was just a few days until Jan. 6, 2021, when Congress was slated to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, and Trump had suddenly resuscitated a plan to replace the leadership of the Justice Department with Jeffrey Clark, a little known DOJ official who Trump expected to mount a sweeping nationwide effort to help him remain in power.

Philbin’s description of his interactions with Clark shed new light on the frenzied effort by Trump to remake the Justice Department into a tool of his bid to cling to power despite losing the election…

Together, the two men described a White House that had let down all guardrails, with conspiracy theories about election fraud reaching Trump, who was an eager recipient of even implausible claims of fraud.

Translation: A few honest men tried to expose and counter the stolen election, but internal saboteurs along with the Fake News Media spun it as Trump the dictator trying to steal the election from Bargain Basement Biden who supposedly won it fair and square in a landslide while using trucked-in ballots galore. As usual, the Dems accused the innocent of doing what they themselves had done.

SNAKES & VIPERS VS PATRIOTS

We can add one of the top saboteurs to the ranks of Pence, Philbin and Cipolline, and that’s Trump’s former Chief of Staff, and Chief Viper, Mark Meadows. There were teams of patriots supporting Trump during the crucial countdown to Inauguration Day, and one of special note, comprised of General Michael Flynn, attorney Sidney Powell, and patriot Patrick Byrne who managed to get past the gatekeepers to meet with Trump in person in the White House during this time. By the end of their conversation, documented in Byrne’s book “The Deep Rig,” Trump agreed to have Sidney Powell represent him in challenging the election results. The trio left the White House elated!

But just as the good news of Trump having won the election on the night of November 3rd, mysteriously turned into Sleepy Joe squeaking by with a win the following morning, so too did the Swamp squelch the Flynn/Powell/Byrne plan by the next day. The quislings, likely led by Meadows, quietly reinstalled Giuliani as Trump’s main legal fighter, whom they knew was way over his head and would never succeed.

THE PALACE COUP

In short, this was a Palace Coup, cementing the faux regime of usurping Biden after a faux “insurrection” of innocent patriots rallying in support of Trump on January 6th, hiding the real insurrection that had occurred in three stages, as follows:

Stage One: This took place in the wee hours of November 4th after the Dominion voting machines had allegedly been reprogrammed with new algorithms and enough faux Biden Ballots could be wheeled out of trucks and suitcases and presented as “evidence” that Beijing Biden “won.”

Stage Two: The sorry spectacle of Congress certifying the Color Revolution and the stolen election on January 6th, when the cowards hid in the basement till the patriots went home, so the Congressional Swampers could perform their treasonous betrayal late at night, as they then had the bonus of being able to characterize the peaceful rally—except for the violence of the Capitol Police, Antifa, and the Fed agents provocateurs who provided the necessary optics to give some credence to the “insurrection” charge, however minimal—as a violent insurrection to take over the country. I wrote about this at the time in an article entitled: “Attention Congress: A plague on both your houses!”

Stage Three: The Palace Coup derailed President Trump’s attempts to have the elections in a handful of swing states investigated for fraud, and if fraud was shown to have occurred that would change the outcome of the election, to have a one-day redo of the election using only paper ballots. And yes, as we now know, that would have resulted in Trump having his legitimately won second term in 2020.

THE PATRIOT COROLLARY

How do we know whom we can trust beyond the shadow of a doubt?

One surefire way is to take note of those the Deep State/Globalists go after.

Trump is obviously their Public Enemy Number One. But there are plenty of others on the Globalists’ A-List who rated financial/legal persecution and/or prison sentences. Here are a few: Every single J-6er languishing in the D.C. gulag, General Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Peter Navarro, Steve Bannon, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, James O’Keefe of Project Veritas, and more recently, Alex Jones and his groundbreaking InfoWars website, not to mention the international hero Reiner Fuellmich, who conducted the “Nuremberg 2.0” public trial re: Covid mandates, etc., in Germany, where he’s now held prisoner. (See Janet Levy’s article in American Thinker.)

SABOTEURS IN THE MAKING?

Speaking of hidden saboteurs, according to attorney Thomas Renz, Trump may have one working closely with him now: his campaign manager and head of his PAC, Susie Wiles. The wily Ms. Wiles is also Trump’s scheduler who decides who gets to meet with him and who doesn’t—similar to Mark “snake eyes” Meadows’ role as Trump’s former Chief of Staff.

Renz did a podcast on Wiles as a likely globalist plant actively sabotaging Trump by steering him to endorse RINOs, claiming they’re vetted Conservatives—if true, this would make her another candidate for the lowest circle of hell. Renz says, “The people around Trump are going to be vital,” as he reminds us that we’re at war with the WEF/NWO globalists who are sure to try to infiltrate Trump’s administration if he triumphs over their cheating apparatus and makes it to the White House.

In fact, Renz has a few questions for Susie Wiles: “How can the head of the Trump campaign and PAC, work for a company [Mercury LLC, a subsidiary of Omnicom] that is controlled by the WEF and that represents Pfizer, Gilead, GAVI and the UN Foundation, as well as CCP interests? Also, [she needs to] explain endorsements [of NeverTrumpers & RINOs], and explain why it is that this woman is apparently a source in Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump, and is still doing all she’s doing [heading Trump’s campaign & PAC].” Meaning she’s allegedly testifying against her boss!

And to Renz’s three vital questions, I’ll add a fourth: Did Ms. Wiles green-light J.D.Vance, in spite of, or perhaps because of, his affiliation with the Bilderbergs and Silicon Valley Big Tech billionaires, and his prior history as a NeverTrumper?

As Roger Stone opines, Wiles may be the best in the business at managing campaigns and messaging. Well and good. But you can’t serve two masters. Which is it, Susie—Trump & MAGA, or the WEF and the NWO globalist elites behind it?

TWO MORE POSSIBLE GLOBALIST PLANTS: VANCE & VIVEK

Says well-respected Sundance of the Conservative Treehouse in an article article entitled The Mirror:

Abandoned by his father to a troubled single mother; eventually raised by grandparents. He is then recruited from an Ivy league law school by shadow figures, a specific billionaire and a network of interests. He changes his name, writes a book about his life story, and with the support of the aforementioned – who eventually pays for the assembly of a strategic campaign influence network, becomes a Senator for 2 years before being quickly elevated into position in the White House.

“Many people reading that paragraph would be familiar with the life story of Barack Hussein Obama. However, that paragraph also explains the right-side version of the exact same storyline, James David Vance. It’s a mirror…. Who is JD Vance and where did he come from? How does a person without any baseline in politics, not a council member, not a mayor, not a state rep – or state senate, governor etc., become a U.S. Senator and then quickly get into the White House?”

I wonder whether billionaire power-mongers hire scouts to find ambitious, articulate Ivy League law students eager for fame, fortune and perhaps power—young men without firm scruples. Soros apparently found Obama at Columbia, while Soros’ brother Paul granted Vivek a Fellowship to attend Yale Law School, and Peter Thiel found Vance at Yale. Perhaps coincidentally, Vance and Vivek ended up in the same class at Yale—a twofer.

A few years after ponying up big bucks to launch Vance’s startup venture capital firm, two Bilderberg Board members—Peter Thiel and Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt—introduced Vance to Trump as a potential running mate. As Phyllis Schlafly warned in her book “A Choice, Not an Echo,” vice presidents are typically chosen by the Bilderberg globalists – a kind of insurance policy in case the new president puts America first.

If Silicon Valley were a neutral player rather than being largely tied to the Deep State and Intel agencies, it might not matter that the Valley’s moguls Thiel and Schmidt were the ones who brought Vance and his pal Vivek to prominence in the MAGA sphere. Instead, it’s worrisome.

And here’s another disturbing factoid: Vance’s wife Usha was a “Gates Scholar” at the UK’s prestigious University of Cambridge—that’s “Gates” as in “Bill Gates.” And the mission of Gates’ scholars? To use their academic excellence to achieve “wider social impact.” Perhaps that’s why she went to work at a “radically Progressive” law firm: Munger Tolles & Olson, which she quit the moment her husband became Trump’s VP.

However, even if J.D. Vance is controlled opposition, if Trump wins with a landslide mandate from We the People, he’ll be a human dynamo revving up the economy, etc., and Vance may well fade into the background as Veep’s so often do. Let’s hope so, while also keeping an eye on him.

But what about the new Conservative star Vivek Ramaswamy, a Trump loyalist, right? Oops…maybe not. He’s tried to scrub the fact that Paul Soros funded his stint at Yale law school, as well as the issue of his WEF ties. But here’s the kicker: Vance’s wife Usha is Vivek’s first cousin! Small world!

Some people are also concerned about Tucker Carlson’s new role as a Trump confidante. It seems Tucker, along with Silicon Valley big wigs and Don Jr., is largely responsible for promoting Vance. Of note: as the New American Magazine pointed out, Vance attended a Bilderberg conference in 2017. Hmmm… And after Tucker’s recent surprising choice to interview Holocaust denier Darryl Cooper, many believe Trump should distance himself from Mr. Carlson, as excellent a journalist Tucker may be overall.

(Hat tip to my colleagues Janet Levy & Kelleigh Nelson for sharing their top-notch research on Wiles, Vance, Carlson and more.)

FOXES GUARDING THE HEN HOUSE?

After all, it hasn’t served Trump well to be overly cozy with Conservative mainstream media and its stars. Recall that on election night, it was Fox that famously called Arizona for Biden way too soon, and that Sean Hannity himself pressured the President to step down without challenging the obviously stolen election. In fact, as early as November 7th, 2020, Laura Ingraham was already encouraging President Trump to concede “with grace” if it was determined Biden “won” the election. One might well wonder whether these Foxes are fair weather friends or controlled opposition.

And speaking of quislings and Swampers, the list from Trump’s first term is shockingly long, but here are a few names we might keep in mind: Kellyanne Conway (see Kelleigh Nelson’s article on Conway and the Koch Brothers’ influence in Trump’s administration); the following Generals: Mark Milley, John Kelly, James Mattis and H. R. McMaster; Rex Tillerson, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, Marc Short, Jeff Sessions, and William Barr. That’s just the short list. We can’t afford a repetition of MAGA enemies inside Trump’s White House this time ‘round. There’s too much at stake.

Now it’s up to We the People to make sure the man who stands for “Nationalism, not globalism,” Donald J. Trump, wins the 2024 election so he can begin reversing the damage O’Biden and Kommie Kamala have wrought, and go about the business of cleaning up the Dems’ mess and making America great again!

—See more at Cherie Zaslawsky's Substack: Cherie Z’s Truth Be Told!