If You Have Time for One Book Between Now and Election Day, Make It “Disappearing The President” by Lee Smith
Disappearing The President is the first comprehensive account of the Shadow Network systematically undermining the American republic and supplanting democratic institutions.
Disappearing The President, Lee Smith’s newly released current affairs work, has a protagonist and an antagonist. Smith’s protagonist is Donald Trump, the Builder, the man who spends his life creating things and surrounds himself with similarly-minded people. However, the thrust of the author’s inquiry is on the antagonist, Barack Obama, and what he calls his “Shadow Network,” the organization subverting the will of the American people and demolishing institutions of our republic.
The Shadow Network is distinct from Deep State — the latter term emerged in Kamal Ataturk’s Turkey to describe a behind-the-scenes military-civilian alliance to preserve secularism. Not unlike it, the former is the comprised from a wide array of individuals in public service, media and corporate elites, circulating between different sectors, implementing their agenda.
Given the mental state of the individual currently occupying the White House, we have two potential answers to the question “who is in charge of the executive branch?” One is the Deep State, and the other is Barack Obama. Although he spent considerable time outlining how generational changes, bribery and coercion corrupted our institutions, Smith, citing the former California Congressman and the CEO of Truth Social Devin Nunes, believes that the number of decision makers surrounding Obama is small, just 20-30 people.
This core of Obama apparatus is fundamentally un-American. Smith explains:
[T]he majority of Americans want to lead normal lives and enjoy the blessings of peace and prosperity that generations dating back to the founders fought and died for. The minority is a committed revolutionary faction keen to replace the constitutional order with a new form of government, one that seeks to regulate the thoughts and behaviors of American citizens and strips us of our sovereignty on behalf of the ruling party, Obama’s Shadow Network.
Disappearing The President is the first comprehensive account of the Shadow Network systematically undermining the American republic and supplanting democratic institutions. Smith draws upon interviews with politicians, journalists, scientists, an FBI leaker, and a family member of a January 6 protester driven to suicide, as well as previous works of investigative journalism. He explains how, before leaving the office in 2017, Obama made sure to weaponize intelligence agencies against Trump. Having got away with Russiagate — election interference by intelligence services — Obama operatives realized they were above the law.
The 2020 election-rigging and information warfare scheme fused the “soft coup” experiences abroad, like the Ukrainian Euromaidan, with California-like election procedures. For the fear of a novel virus, American citizens were sequestered and bombarded with Shadow Network-approved information, first about the medical topics, then the election. Americans were told that voting in person is dangerous and the country was flooded with unverifiable ballots. These ballots were harvested by Democrat operatives, including after Election Day when the counting mysteriously stopped.
President Trump was held incommunicado by Twitter for protesting the handling of the rigging. Following the Stop The Steal rally, not just Trump or his inner circle, but his voters — ordinary people — have been prosecuted with vengeance.
To assure that Trump would never return to the White House, the Shadow Network turned to lawfare. When that failed, the former president was denied adequate security on campaign trail. What awaits him next?
Disappearing The President is not a conspiracy theory — it’s not at all speculative, but is well-documented and nuanced. Smith recreates the machinations of the Shadow Networks while giving a learned opinion on a wide range of topics. For instance, of Ukraine, he says:
By tying itself to an American administration that had proven to be reckless and dangerous, the Ukrainians made a geopolitical blunder that statesmen will study for years to come: a buffer state had staked its future on a distant power that had simply seen it as an instrument to annoy its powerful neighbor with no attachment to any larger strategic concept.
The book invites many questions about the future of our republic. How can we, as a country, overcome what was done to us? How come we accepted unfreedom so dutifully?
Smith points out that the Shadow Network lawlessness was triggered by the self-assessed invincibility of the individuals involved in Russiagate. Likewise, no politician, scientist or bureaucrat complacent with the shelter-in-place coronavirus regime has faced any consequences — and that’s after keeping the entire country on lockdown, in some places for over a year.
Americans have been profoundly affected by the bureaucratic anarchy armed with pseudoscientific directives. For instance, in the San Francisco Bay Area where I live, some residents — most of them women — have permanently adopted facial coverings. It’s a vivid reminder of the mental toll and disruptiveness of the pseudo medical regime — and so are the permanently blocked streets, originally designed to provide space for social distancing and the San Francisco downtown that stands empty to this day. Our children continue dealing with learning loss, loneliness and alienation are rampant and suicides, especially among the youth, are on the rise. Yet the people who got every prediction wrong and who, as Smith pointed out, discarded their own guidelines in order to force healthy people in quarantine, are walking among us as if nothing has happened. Not an apology was offered.
Are we going to likewise pretend that there was nothing unusual about the censorship regime imposed by the Shadow Network on social media platforms — or the 2020 election itself? Or the fact that the current ostensibly president of the United States is more far gone than your average Soviet general secretary circa 1982?
In 2008, Obama ran on the hope and change platform. Amorphous as it was, it got tens of millions of Americans emotionally invested in his persona. But Obama, Smith tells us, has no love lost for the country and destruction of our every institution may well be his ultimate goal.
Because so many people fell for his promises and because they are the types that consider themselves sophisticated and wield considerable power, they will resist any revelation about the their idol. Any attempt to publicly discuss what happened to our nation since 2008 will open an oozing wound.
Yet the very real conspiracies against Trump, Smith is showing us, are not merely extraconstitutional actions taken against the opposition leader. They are a crime against our republic and the American people. These are the kind of questions the author has been probing on social media.
It now looks like Trump may win the election. What should happen to the Shadow Network if that will be the case is an excellent question.
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Seeing some of the Madison Square Garden photos and it’s absolutely insane and this is in NYC!!
Again, as Ace pointed out a week or so ago, people are going to see Trump and hear what he has to say over the course of a couple hours while people are going to see Bruce Springsteen or Beyonce with a 5 minute speech from Kamaltoe.
Quite literally without the lye of Beyonce performing no on was going to see Kamalatoe 😂
Lee Smith is a pit bull journalist. He latches onto a subject and won’t be shaken loose. I admire his focused tenacity.
It’s noteworthy that Ukraine is still considered “a buffer state.” It’s the cultural crush zone between Europe and Asiatic Russia. Any former vassal of Tsarist/Soviet Russia is forever considered Russian property – the “elder brother” syndrome. Russian irredentists will never allow an independent Ukraine; a truly independent Ukraine free of EU/US/Rus machinations.
The Balts, Finns and Poles are the canary in the coal mine; when the Russians begin to strut, they get busy preparing for invasion. E.g., in 2023 a Chinese/Russian owned cargo ship purposefully dragged its anchor across the Finn/Estonian balticconnector energy pipeline.
https://maritime-executive.com/article/china-acknowledges-that-boxship-caused-balticconnector-pipeline-breach
I don’t like Russia. My online friend who grew up there doesn’t like Russia. I don’t approve of condemning people to be subservient to Moscow.
That said, the regions that Russia has managed to conquer were majority Russian speaking. They are getting what they asked for, and getting it good and hard.
The Russian tsars veered back and forth in regards to forcing Ukrainians to adopt the Russian language. In the late 19th/early 20th century there was a Ukrainian language/cultural renaissance, but that movement was utterly and finally crushed by the Bolsheviks.
Estonians spoke a Finnic language prior to the Russians.
Finns always used a Finnic language – melted somewhat with Swedish; Grand Duchy of Sweden prior to King Charles XII’s defeat at Poltava.
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth predates Russia.
The Kazakhs predate Russia.
The list is quite long, but I’ll stop here.
It may well be a groundbreaking work, but from the description, it sounds like Smith is under the impression that Obama is some kind of Bond villain. Obama is just another puppet, not the head of the snake (in fact, the snake is almost certainly a hydra). Obama didn’t disappear and then fake his own birth certificate, lock down his college records, scrub his personal history, or get himself tapped to deliver Bill Clinton’s presidential nomination, Obama is being run by the same cabal that ran Biden, and is now running Harris (not their choice, but their hand was forced). If you stop the investigation with “all roads lead to Obama,” they win. Obama is just Michael Anthony — the valuable work is to ferret out John Beresford Tipton.
(Translating for the fogy-impaired is Garret Morris: “Obama is just Bosley — the valuable work is to ferret out Charlie.”
Exactly. That someone can write such a book and not see this is frightening. Thinking is on a rapid decline.
It’s “frightening” that you disagree with somebody’s judgement in a book a book you haven’t read, and the existence of this disagreement in itself proves that “thinking is on a rapid decline”? Your assertions are not self-evident.
I like the sound of this book. However when it comes to barky, it has always been my opinion that he was made to look like a big deal when in actuality he’s just a skinny jive street hustler, addicted to various downfalls, and a creature who can only follow the orders of the people who REALLY make the decisions.
barky is a perpetual liar and can only express his *thoughts* through communist dogma. He was good looking when he was younger, but now looks like someone in rapid decline. He can’t think on his feet or make an original statement worth remembering. He had eight years in the White House but as time goes by he becomes more and more irrelevant. He will continue on this path, always seeking the adulation he had from the time he ran for president on a resume of fumes.
The people who pull the strings of sub-humans such as barky, dementia joe, big mike obama, etc. probably attend the Bilderburg meetings. Perhaps Rothchilds, and Rockefellers, but all are obscenely wealthy individuals who are certain that they should rule the world because they made big money.
Enlightening, I had lumped Obama in with deep state. One thing is certain, there are some really nasty elements doing their best to ruin America and what we stand for. Imagine what the fallout would be, inside fighting over how to divide the spoils.
I’d say “The Structure of Complex Words” by Wm. Empson. On the forces of words as they change in various contexts, and can be moved around to put forward different doctrines. More permanent learning.
I think the Shadow Government and the Deep Government are one and the same
and yes, the Rothchilds and Rockerfellers, others are behind it all
How would you otherwise distinguish them, not knowing their membership? Those, along with the Swamp, are just all terms for the same cabal we do not know. Unless you think there can be more than one cabal in charge, and then I’m curious why.
Don’t see it on Audible right now, but see another book there by the same author – “The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President”….
My belief is that Zero is himself a puppet, and whoever is really pulling the strings is probably several layers deeper than that, so deep in the shadows that the family name is not even close to being a household word.
Not too many layers, though.
I have to keep reminding myself that there really is no shirtless geezer sitting under a naked hanging light bulb in an otherwise vacant room, on the phone to somebody, saying, “Very good. Now destabilize the peso.”
(And yet, that pretty much presaged George Soros, who was unknown at the time.)
I wish I could find the original cartoon. Almost sure it was George Booth.
Question to Milhouse. If Trump were assassinated could the Dems say that since he is gone, the Trump/Vance candidacy cannot have any votes count?
It has been prety well established that Soviet Communists did get agents provocateur into the US, that McCarthy was, in fact, right.
There was a vast, Soviet controlled organization trying to foment revolution all across the world. Hundreds of little groups all pushing the message directed by the Soviet Union.
But the Soviet Union was destroyed.
So what happened to all those groups?
Some fell apart.
But some didn’t. The infiltration into the US government, the business sector and the media and academia went deep
So they just kept going.
Without a head.
Which is what we see today. Many ideologically similar groups using channels built by the USSR for the purpose of removing the American threat.
And that is what they’re doing.
Removing the threat by fomenting revolution.
They can’t govern –they have no ‘governing’ principles. Their entire focus is on destruction and more particularly, destruction of the American system, which revealed their ‘revolution’ as a sham.
Obama doesn’t lead anything, he, like Joe, is a puppet, a face. But that means nothing. You will never find a ‘leader’ because the entire structure is designed so that each member can point to another or no one and say ‘I was only doing what X thought was best’.
Because there IS no leader. They are all carrying out a dead Soviet program.
I heard comments delivered by Lee Smith in the last month and was able to speak to him briefly. I was SO positively impressed. He’s one of few who can speak not only clearly but in a highly measured way that makes the listener want to preserve and recall every word he speaks. He seems to be much more a reporter than an activist, but he uncovers and expresses truths that undercut the left’s efforts to restrict our Consitutionally guaranteed freedoms.