We are joined once again with Tom Luongo, who is the publisher of Gold, Goats and Guns,

a subscription newsletter on geopolitics and markets.

We'll be talking about the apparent deep-state coup that has taken place against President Trump.

It seems to me that Trump meant well in the beginning.

He wanted out of Syria, stopped the TPP and so forth.

However, now he's done an about face 180 degrees.

He's going into Syria, talk about resurrecting the TPP from the dead.

Obama, in some regards, perhaps meant well, such as his desire to end Guantanamo and pull out

of Iraq.

But I'm guessing that this deep state effectively neuters every single president, unless

this is a president like

John F. Kennedy, who is willing to risk his life in order to actually do his job.

Vladimir Putin made a comment to French media recently that in Washington, once you are elected,

men in dark suits come and tell you what to do. This could very well explain the flip-flopping

of President

Trump. If this is the case, I doubt Trump has the same profile and courage which led

Kennedy to go against the grain. And the serious strike seemed to be the straw that broke

the camel back. They seem to send a message to the Russians that Washington is crazy enough

to start World War III, and the message to us that as you say Tom Trump has become a prisoner and is not

willing to go John F. Kennedy at least not yet what game do you think was being played in

Syria and is Trump finished? Thank you again for having me on here for. I really appreciate it. I think that the game is not quite over. I think that I think Sergey Lavrov, the great Russian foreign minister, came out earlier. Was it yesterday or this we're recording this on Saturday? so I think on either Thursday or Friday, 419

or 420, said that he's 100% certain that neither the U.S. nor the Russian military wants

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