-Diana West, Author of The Red Thread, American Betrayal and Death of the Grownup
-Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., Executive Chairman of the Center for Security Policy
-Chris Farrell, Director for Investigations and Research at Judicial Watch
-Rich Higgins, Former Pentagon Official Who Served in the NSC Strategic-Planning Office
About The Red Thread:
The first investigation into why a ring of senior Washington officials went rogue to derail the election and the presidency of Donald Trump.
There was nothing normal about the 2016 presidential election, not when senior U.S. officials were turning the surveillance powers of the federal government -- designed to stop terrorist attacks -- against the Republican presidential team. These were the ruthless tactics of a Soviet-style police state, not a democratic republic.
The Red Thread asks the simple question: Why? What is it that motivated these anti-Trump conspirators from inside and around the Obama administration and Clinton networks to depart so drastically from “politics as usual” to participate in a seditious effort to overturn an election?
Finding clues in an array of sources, Diana West uses her trademark investigative skills, honed in her dazzling work, American Betrayal, to construct a fascinating series of ideological profiles of well-known but little understood anti-Trump actors, from James Comey to Christopher Steele to Nellie Ohr, and the rest of the Fusion GPS team; from John Brennan to the numerous Clintonistas still patrolling the Washington Swamp after all these years, and more.
Once, we knew these officials by august titles and reputation; after The Red Thread, readers will recognize their multi-generational and inter-connecting communist and socialist pedigrees, and see them for what they really are: foot-soldiers of the Left, deployed to take down America’s first “America First” and most anti-Communist president.
If we just give it a pull, the “red thread” is very long and very deep.
Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hilary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump, Gregg Jarrett, 2018.
Judicial Watch. federal attack on our election and on the presidency.
The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy, Diana West, 2019. Why did these senior officials at the Justice Department and the FBI, elsewhere in the Obama Administration, why did they decide to engage in so many lawless acts to undermine an election and sabotage a presidency. In other words, we have a famous, wonderful system whereby the transition from one party to another every 2 to 4 years is peaceful. It's common in Washington whereby the out party does something else for a couple of years and waits to take political revenge in the next election cycle. In this case, we've seen something so foreign to our understanding of how our democracy is supposed to work that I decided to try to find out if we could find out why it is that what we're looking at is so familiar to us from totalitarian systems. And that is a very serious undertaking and it begins with the fusion GPS team of Nellie Orr and her husband at the Justice Department. This was sort of the beginning of the Red Thread. It looks at James Comey's ideological roots. It looks at John Brennan. It tries to build out ideological profiles that may help us understand why we have public servants who've sworn to uphold the Constitution who are actually operating under the very Marxist paradigm of "the ends justify the means."
5:45 James Comey, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, previously the #2 man at the Department of Justice, seems like an unlikely character given that personal record to have Leftist or Marxist leanings. Walk us through how they're there.
6:12 Yes, he's a very fine subject of study because he's been so open about his own philosophical influences on his entire career. When he was a senior at William and Mary, he graduated in 1982, he did a paper on the Christian and Politics and he looked at Jerry Falwell at the time, a very important figure on the right, and he looked at the man who is considered to be his own ideological mentor, Reinhold Niebuhr, 1892-1971. Most people don't know too much about Reinhold Niebuhr except that he is "liberal, protestant theologian." His writings however have shaped James Comey's outlook, not just as a student but as recently as 2018 when the New York Times interviewed him on the occasion of him publishing his memoir, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, 2018. He was asked about the most important books that influenced his life, and he selected two Niebuhr titles from 1930-something and 1940, which is the period in which Niebuhr was well known as a member of the Socialist Party in the United States, and a very militant Marxist, who in the early 30s was literally calling for the overthrow of the American social order. This is something quite staggering when you realize that James Comey used his name, Reinhold Niebuhr, as his Twitter handle until he was discovered. This was when he was incognito. This becomes someone to really investigate, to look at on James Comey's view of justice. This is what he studied as a student when he considered himself to be a communist. He was very open about this in an interview that Comey gave in 2003 with New York Magazine where he talked about being a communist in college. He "wasn't quite sure what he was now," this is what he told us as he was preparing to enter the Bush 43 Administration as the #2 at the Justice Department, but he had moved into a Republican style, you might say. It becomes evident when you look at the things that he highlighted as a young man from Niebuhr's readings, and we can go into it; I have some quotations.
