Reporter John Solomon reported that a retired senior intelligence officer told him that the intelligence community turned its domestic playbook inward to topple our legitimately elected President, Donald J. Trump, in 2016 and to ensure he would not be reelected in 2020. This fits a well-established history of U.S. intervention abroad.

1. Operation Gladio (1952–1990): Originally organized by Western intelligence and NATO across Western Europe to wage a resistance campaign against a potential Soviet invasion, these clandestine networks became deeply controversial for domestic political destabilization and interference within allied nations.
2. Iran (1953): The CIA and MI6 helped remove Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh through political pressure, propaganda, and coordination with domestic actors.
3. Guatemala (1954): A CIA-backed operation combined propaganda, diplomatic pressure, and a small proxy force to remove President Jacobo Árbenz.
4. Serbia (1990s–2000): U.S. agencies and affiliated organizations supported independent media, election monitoring, polling, and opposition mobilization during the campaign that ended Slobodan Milošević’s rule.
5. Ukraine (2000s–present): U.S. support has included civil society, political participation, anti-corruption, media, and governance programs. This did not “create” Maidan, but it strengthened elements of the civic ecosystem active during Ukraine’s political crises.
6. Venezuela (since 2002): USAID and NED have supported democracy, governance, human-rights, and civil-society programs amid sustained U.S. efforts to pressure the Chávez/Maduro governments.
7. Cuba (2009–12): USAID’s ZunZuneo used an ostensibly independent SMS platform to expand communications outside state control, while concealing U.S. sponsorship.

Given that the U.S. intelligence community has an established foreign destabilization toolkit, it’s highly plausible that they could turn their focus against a sitting President or Presidential candidate who threatens their priorities.

The question is, which foreign nations and/or non state groups are they working with?

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