A signal piece published by Yahoo Finance on June 30 and headlined “Trump’s worst nightmare may be happening,” served to conduit a key British component of their strategy for the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Senior columnist Rick Newman, who is also a regular commentator on CNN and NPR, wrote the article based on the “findings” of IHS Markit, which he casually described as a “forecasting firm.” In fact, IHS Markit is a London–based global information provider formed in 2016 with the merger of IHS Inc. and Markit Ltd., with 13,000 (!) employees and annual revenue of $3.6 billion in 2017. One of its subsidiaries is none other than Jane’s Information Group, publisher of London’s authoritative defense publication, Jane’s Defence Weekly – the very heart of British military intelligence.
So what are the marching orders of the British establishment for a strategy to sink Trump, should their efforts to topple him before the November elections fail? “President Trump still has a chance at reelection, but it’s contingent on a quick economic recovery and the containment of the coronavirus. Both may be slipping away,” Newman wrote. Therefore, hang the COVID-19 crisis and the collapsing economy around Trump’s neck like an albatross.
