President Donald Trump’s suggestion Thursday that he may pardon or commute the sentences of Martha Stewart and former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for federal crimes covers two of the most infamous celebrities connected to Trump’s former reality show “The Apprentice.”
But, if Trump is considering pardons for all well-known “Apprentice” alumni caught in the federal system, he missed at least one.
Darryl Strawberry, the former professional baseball player, pleaded guilty to federal income tax evasion in 1995. Strawberry’s probation was for three years.
Why those two? More surprising is Martha Stewart tried to screw Donald Trump out of the Apprentice:
But Stewart has quite a personal history with Trump, including serving as host of a spinoff of The Apprentice, Trump’s long-running NBC television series, shortly after her conviction. At the time, the stars were initially supportive of each other’s successes, but in the wake of the spinoff series’ cancellation after just 13 episodes, Trump was highly critical of Stewart, writing: “Putting your show on the air was a mistake for everybody—especially NBC.” Fast forward to today and Trump, now the 45th President of the United States, enjoys the power of clemency and the upper hand.
Yet in an interview with Fortune’s Pattie Sellers in 2005, the power dynamic seemed to be flipped. When Stewart was offered a starring role in The Apprentice, she recalled from her office in Midtown Manhattan, “I thought I was replacing The Donald. It was even discussed that I would be firing The Donald on the first show.”
And what did Trump think about that? “I don’t think he ever knew,” she said at the time. Read the full story right here on Fortune.com.
Trump did know, because I remember an interview with him at the time. He said he couldn’t believe she would think she was going to take the series from him, since he was the one who asked NBC to reach out to her after she got out of prison because he felt bad about how she had been treated. He clearly implied it was more than just her being told she would fire Trump. She was pushing behind the scenes to take him down and get his version killed, so she could seize the series and try to rebuild what she had lost.
I suspect both Stewart and Blagojevich were close up witnesses to Cabal’s hijinks, and this trial balloon is Trump offering them a pardon for joining Trump and team Q’s media campaign to reveal what has been going on. Notice how everyone talks in Cabal-ese.
I have always suspected Martha Stewart’s fall was a Cabal Inc op. I even did a post on how it would have worked. Why she fell in their crosshairs, I have no idea. Maybe they approached her, and told her a certain percentage of her net worth would now be handed over to Cabal, Inc., and she rejected them. Maybe she insulted the wrong person. Maybe somebody decided they didn’t like her. Maybe her synergistic multimedia empire, with magazines, TV Shows, radio spots, and syndicated columns had too many eyeballs, and could reveal too much to too many if it wasn’t fully controlled, and she balked at handing over full control. Or maybe her billion dollar net worth was an attractive little purse for a few month long op, with almost no risk of any consequences. Whatever the story behind the scenes, I suspect she ran face first into Cabal, Inc. and now her multibillion dollar multimedia empire has been reduced to a small half hour PBS show once a week, where a cameraman films her baking cookies.
Blagojevich is obvious. He came up through ultra-corrupt Chicago, and from seeing him in the Apprentice, he clearly did not do that himself. The man can barely do anything beyond read a speech that was written for him. He will know the real story behind Obama, and the shadowy figures who promoted him up the ranks. And of course, he went to prison, which is something that does not happen to Cabal assets in good standing.
Think about it. Blagojevich merely ruminated on how much he could get for Obama’s senate seat, without actually selling it, and he was impeached and is still in jail. Now picture the myriad of crimes Hillary has overseen, and she was untouchable, and still may prove to be, unless something changes. Something went on behind the scenes with Blagojevich that produced his takedown, and my guess is he is too afraid to even broach it, and he figures nobody would believe him anyway.
Now Trump is asking two major public figures to tell the story behind their story, because when the people hear it, American minds will be blown. The only problem is, it is a limited time offer. Not because Trump is limiting it, but because the Cabal will be coming after them now to tie up their loose ends.
Best decide this one fast.
Tell others about r/K Theory, because the most dangerous threat is the one you have no idea exists
I used to watch The Apprentice, and I remember the season with Blagovovich. He was useless, and I couldn’t understand how he gets out of bed and leaves for work without help. But I also got the impression from the show that he’s genuinely like-able. He seemed like a decent guy away from the corrupt machine.
I agree. It was a fascinating show when he was on, because you realized that although he was portrayed as a huge leader as Governor, who knew everything, in reality he had to be walking around all day, with staff telling him, “Make this speech, and look convincing.” “Sign this law.” Compliment this donor on the job he did building his new apartment building.” “Meet these people, and look sympathetic to their cause, but tell them it is difficult to act right now, but you will do something.”
I really got the impression he could have been an actor plucked out of some theater group in rural Ohio, and placed where he was, because he would follow orders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu9ZxzsWchg
Martha Stewart’s media success, Martha Stewart Living, was a huge deal in the 1990’s. I would suspect that the Cabal took her down because her show was going to teach a generation of Millennial girls how to be domestic and be good housewives. If this show was big when 9/11 and the Oil Wars of the 2000’s were getting ready to start it would have helped the nation go hard K. Imagine if all those millennials that are scraping by and childless now, had families- It would be like the Eisenhower era right now. There would literally be millions more white children in America today and the Cabal’s plans for the coming decades would be weakened.
Instead of the Oil Wars expanding (from Iraq and Libya to Iran/Venezuela) they ceased because of Fracking and the 2008 recession.
Maybe Heartiste can comment on this, but “liberated” women- signalled to and directed towards r-selection will make men go in that direction too. Think about it this way- if all the women are sleeping around and a guy can get laid pretty easy then why settle down? Why would you marry a slut? On the other hand, if a woman is very domestic in her early 20’s it can have a civilizing effect on a man and that’s a major way families start.
Instead of homemaking becoming a “thing” with Millennial women, the fad instead became dressing like a slut- then acting like and becoming a slut. I distinctly remember the way young women dressed in 2000 and the way they dressed in 2010. The difference was amazing. The Cabal shut down Martha Stewart Living because it didn’t want an entire generation of girls to act like their older sisters and mothers. The Cabal wanted do destroy them with feminism instead.
Wow. I never even thought of that. Martha was promoting K-women skills.
Mind blown.
This is an excellent comment. I never thought of that and after reading your take, I also agree 100%.
Don’t forget the sky-High rates of STDs. According to CDC, one in 4 sexually actively females has an STD, which can sometimes affect her ability later to conceive or deliver a full term child. College campuses are a breeding ground. Another great way to cull the white population. Turn the girls off to domestic skills and on to feminism, while at the same time promoting hooking up anytime and with anyone on college campuses or in high school to infect the hell out of as many girls as possible. I know many women who’ve also had abortions in high school and college. It’s never talked about the mental and emotional after-effect that haunts them for years afterward or because of scarring, their ability to conceive years later after “settling down”.
The assaults on traditional American lifestyle and values are innumerable.
https://www.cdc.gov/std/stats16/adolescents.htm
OMGosh, Pitcrew. You’re right. She extolled the virtues of cooking from scratch, decorating and making a comfortable home, crafting, sewing, gardening, the importance of home maintenance, and even raising chickens for truly fresh eggs. And people were paying attention. I remember watching a lesson on the importance of regularly turning the mattresses, and the proper way to make a bed. I also remember her magazine doing a feature on the virtues of hanging the laundry outside to dry instead of using a dryer. Even ‘working’ women who didn’t cook or keep house watched, with a sort of longing for that kind of lifestyle. She had a way of making that kind of life look eminently desirable. I’m old enough to remember taking home economics classes in high school, and her stuff was like super advanced home ec. It was a “good thing” – as she used to say. Now she just concentrates on cooking. By the time I was watching her, I was already a stay at home full time wife and mother, and yet still learned a lot from her…skills I still use today.
Same. Loved her, but then a smear biography came out right before her legal troubles and I remember feeling let down. Too many of us just uncritically believed crap from “journalists” back then. Now you see that kind of thing and think—leftist takedown 101. They even had the daughter doing a show, “Whatever Martha” to mock the fine housewifery. (The daughter is divorced and procreated via test-tube surrogacy, big surprise there).
I remember around the time of her takedown, they did some “made for TV” movie about her. They made it look like even in high school, her recipes never worked when other people tried them, and hinted that she was a lesbian. It was not favorable to her at all.
I suspect that hitting the billionaire benchmark earns you some measure of extra attention from the Cabal. Sure, having a TIPS-type network of informants is one thing, and many of them would have a criminal disposition from being recruited through plea bargains, but for intrusive operations, wetwork, or prolonged contact, you’d want other traits in addition to the criminal. You need a certain minimum IQ, to interpret indirect communication and maintain operational discipline. You need a certain personality type, to not end up leaking anything by way of gloating or confession, to be able to take orders, and to work well with others professionally. Based on available numbers, my guess is that this amounts to about 1 in 25,000 people, or about 13,000 people in total in the U.S. Somewhere in that order of magnitude.
That’s enough to accomplish whatever the Cabal really wants done, but there would be a limit to who gets full-time attention. This army is big enough to cover a certain number of the richest, most powerful, and most famous, but not every millionaire, county government, or name on TV– especially if you want to have enough left over to respond to crises or probe new players. Billionaires, top federal officials, and Hollywood however, are almost a certainty. It might be interesting to try to spot when someone is getting this treatment for the first time.
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