The great science fiction writer Frank Herbert warned about duplicity, “feints within feints within feints.” Life is as complex as simple, secrets hidden in secrets, like a Russian matryoshka doll. Politics can be that way. As President Trump begins to win, watch what happens next.
Last week, President Trump – on the day after his inauguration – joined well-known business leaders in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to announce a massive project. With his support, the leaders are allying to invest in AI infrastructure – across America. See, What Is Stargate? OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank Team Up for $500B AI Infrastructure Initiative.
This alone is big news since the initial private investment is 100 billion dollars, a four-year goal of 500 billion, and hundreds of thousands of jobs. More remarkable, the group’s aims are worthy of Frank Herbert’s imagined worlds. Recall he wrote Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune. See Not Found – Markets Insider.
President Trump and the AI consortium imagine a world of answers to insoluble problems, a world of hope and healing that pushes back against hopelessness and powerlessness.
They envision – and their work supports the dream – a world in which medicine is personalized, affordable, and deadly diseases get found years in advance, for example, in the blood, allowing, perhaps within 48 hours, a personalized inoculation against the disease, including cancers.
They are perfecting these breakthroughs – part of that “Golden Age” – for science, allowing us to make quantum leaps in what we understand, how answers are found, and care administered.
This is not politics – or even business – as usual. To put it in perspective, it is like finding electricity in a world of candles, the combustion engine in a world of carriages led by horses.
It is the kind of breakthrough that helped us win World War II, not just with jets, radar, and the atom bomb, but with antibiotics, which the Germans and Japanese were slow to find.
It is a complete reset of how we think about the possible, and they call it “Stargate.” It is like Apollo, when Americans conceived, believed, and proved they could get humans to the moon.
But here is where “feints within feints” shows up. No sooner had this project been rolled out, then detractors appeared. Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren snarked that one AI innovator gave personal money to Trump’s inauguration.
Ironically, he gave a million dollars from his pocket and briefed Trump and many others on his AI long before that. Never mind the medical advances for all mankind, Warren wants blood.
Warren and another Democrat warned these businesspeople they might be investigated, should be scared, and fear, not hope, should be their compass. The sheer cynicism, duplicity, anti-public welfare, and progress-eroding nature of her threats is sickening. See, Tech boss Sam Altman’s humiliating clapback that silenced Democrats.
But worse is the way swamp creatures – and Warren is one – operate, ready to hurt the public, slow human advancement, and misuse their power for venal, political ends.
In truth, people support leaders they believe in, which is neither illegal nor against the public interest, and that is why the courts support free speech, including personal contributions.
Here is where the “feint within the feint” appears. Not only is the effort to advance human medicine with private investment good, but Trump’s support for investment in America is also good, but Ms. Warren comes to the high table with “unclean hands.”
You see, among Senator Warren’s top 20 donors, each hundreds of thousands, are promotors of her woke ideology, those seeking appropriations, and technology groups – only in her case, she has a record of returning their gifts with favors, the very sin of which she accuses Trump.
Her supporters are Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, and the universities of Michigan, California, and Washington. To her, they give her the benefit of their tax breaks. See Top Contributors, federal election data for Elizabeth Warren, 2020 cycle • OpenSecrets
Even more revealing, on her big donor list are Disney, Microsoft, Apple, Kaiser, ATT, and IBM. Now, take a moment to pour over her legislative, regulatory, and appropriations record, which she supports. See Top Contributors, federal election data for Elizabeth Warren, 2020 cycle • OpenSecrets.
Let me sum it up this way. Trump is cutting red tape. Expect more. He is dismantling corruption in favor of enterprise, advancement, free speech, free markets, and the Bill of Rights.
The swamp hates being drained. Swamp critters hate being exposed. They hate being called swamp critters. They grasp power by accusing others of what they do. Full of intrigues, ignoble behavior, and complaints, they are at the heart of “feints within feints within feints.”
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, attorney, and naval intelligence officer (USNR). He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018), and is National Spokesman for AMAC. Robert Charles has also just released an uplifting new book, “Cherish America: Stories of Courage, Character, and Kindness” (Tower Publishing, 2024).
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