… a little “burning of the Reichstag” action.
They have to be getting pretty desperate over at the White House. Mike Flynn is apparently ready to sing like a canary–we know this because Trump’s best buds over at the National Enquirer are attacking Flynn:
http://americablog.com/2017/03/national-enquirer-brands-flynn-russian-spy-trump-just-threw-flynn-bus.html
So, Bannon needs to get a MAJOR distraction up and running, or the Trump Train is going to be heading out of power and possibly into a long stint of federal prosecution and, potentially, convictions.
Whatever they come up with has to be believable, or it will simply lead to MORE investigation …whatever gets attacked, either by actual Muslim patsies (carefully set up and aimed) or by operatives pretending to be Muslims, has to be something that most Americans will assume Trump would never agree to have destroyed.
What better than the New York City Trump Tower–symbol of the man himself, and home of his wife and child?
It’s perfect. If, hypothetically, a massive explosion severely damaged the building and, let’s say, tragically took the life of the President’s wife (and maybe son, or maybe not–but definitely the wife)--------then millions of Americans would respond with something like:
…and so, just as in 1933 when the newly-elected German Chancellor asked for an emergency decree suspending civil liberties in order to protect the German People from those awful Communists who had burned down the Reichstag parliament building…
Now, as then, the sympathies of the people will rise up and grant vast powers to our Protector, Donald J. Trump. And all these investigations and humiliations (couldn’t even get a health-care bill passed with a House and Senate of his own party!) will simply…go away.
The thing is, Trump built Trump Tower nearly forty years ago. It’s old and outmoded, just like women that age (or so Trump seems to believe: he divorced Ivana when she was 43 and Marla when she was 37). And though technically the Trump Organization owns it, it is collateral for some major Trump debts:
http://www.debtwire.com/info/2017/01/27/legal-storm-sweeps-ups-trump-tower-cmbs-loan/
So, yeah, if it were to be effectively destroyed in an attack that leads to the President assuming broad “emergency” powers, who knows what might happen to all those entanglements now ensnaring Trump? Maybe they’d just …cease to exist. Or at the very least, with Trump now in a position similar to Putin’s—able to amass wealth at a previously unimaginable rate–then those entanglements just won’t matter anymore. And Trump will be itching to spend all his new riches in an even more impressive, even more up-to-date, even taller Tower.
…But **the crucial point is that the vast majority of Americans have no idea **that Trump doesn’t own his building outright anymore. They would assume that if Trump Tower were to be attacked, that in itself is proof that Trump et al had nothing to do with the attack.
And that’s a fact of which Bannon will be well-aware.
(Something to watch for: valuables being removed from the premises.)