By Catherine Austin Fitts

For many, the decisive outcome of the 2024 presidential election means that the campaign season is over. However, as a former federal official, I can assure you that the real campaign is just beginning. As all sides start jockeying for their people and their policies, it behooves us to hold the new administration’s feet to the fire to keep the best of its campaign promises. Dr. Joseph P. Farrell understands this and joins me once again to discuss what to watch for in the coming weeks and months.

There are three important questions we should be asking as President-elect Trump and his transition team head toward Inauguration Day. The first is “Who?” A new presidential administration has many positions to fill. Will the top 10 (or the top 1,000 or 10,000) positions be staffed by individuals who are loyal to the U.S. Constitution and U.S. sovereignty? Or will those ranks largely be filled by individuals with Epstein or other control files, dual passports, or conflicts of interest reflecting third-party loyalties to wealthy donors, central bankers and the banks that have engineered the financial coup, the Defense Department and their contractors, corporations implementing central control and the Great Poisoning, and the syndicates pushing for war with Iran and Russia? Trump’s out-of-the-gate pick for chief of staff, campaign manager Susie Wiles, sends a signal that the center of his White House team will provide a disciplined dedication to “realpolitik” as the President picks the people after consultation with his transition team.

The second question is “What policies?” The chatter about strengthening border control or addressing civil service corruption may sound good to some, but rolling out digital IDs, getting rid of civil servants who are accountable to Congress, and bringing in private contractors like Palantir will do far more to speed up implementation of the control grid than to address those problems. The civil service follows written instructions from Congress, but as I learned when I was Assistant Secretary of Housing, private contractors are under no such obligation and are free to operate under an unhealthy shroud of secrecy.

The third question turns the mirror on all of us: “What are we going to do about the Red Button problem?” All political candidates, all the way up to the president, are prisoners of this problem. As I have explained for many years, “financial profiteering and complicity is not limited to aristocrats and the elites who do their bidding. Our financial dependency on unsustainable economics is broad, ingrained, and deep.” If we do not actively lessen our own participation in these increasingly unsustainable economics, we will continue to send the leadership a mixed message—and the threat of financial transaction control will remain.