DJ Deep State needs more amplifiers to tangle with Trump
Moby backtracks on own claim the CIA asked him to spread word about U.S. president
I don’t want to ring an alarmist bell, but shouldn’t Moby be placed under police protection until we figure out what he’s talking about?
On Sunday, the electronic musician issued an odd clarification on Instagram.
“Ha, no, the CIA didn’t ask me to post about Trump & Russia, as much fun as that would be,” he wrote, breezily.
“BUT, for what it’s worth, I do have some friends at other intelligence agencies who have told me that: 1-there is genuine concern, globally, that #trump is desperate for a war, either with North Korea or Iran. He needs a distraction as the Russia probe gets closer to home. And 2-it’s still broad consensus that the Fusion-GPS report is quite accurate, as reinforced by congressional testimony released by Diane (sic) Feinstein last week.”
He concluded with a threat assessment and prediction: “Trump is a dirty foreign agent, and one way or another the depths of his, and his campaigns (sic), collusion (and treason) will be revealed. Flynn, Manafort, Kushner, Sessions, Trump, Page, etc. they’re all dirty. Just watch.”
Many people believe this to be true. But not many attribute such a belief to high- level info gleaned from intel agents during a vegan dinner in which other talking points presumably included T-shirts, dance beats, street art and animal rights.
Stranger still is the manner in which Moby begins his 2018 jaunt into geopolitical intrigue. It’s strange because the only person who has suggested the CIA asked Moby to weaponize his social media accounts to disseminate Trump-Russia claims is Moby.
On Sunday, he laughs off the suggestion. Ha! As if! But a few days ago, in an interview with WFPK in Louisville, Ky., Moby claimed to have met last year with — and here I will quote him verbatim — “active and former CIA agents.”
He says these spooks, with an apparent affinity for moody electronica, encouraged him to drop a beat and publicly comment on Trump’s shadowy ties to Moscow. “They were like, ‘This is the Manchurian Candidate,’ ” Moby told the radio station.
“So they passed on some information to me and they said like, ‘Look, you have more of a social media following than any of us do. Can you please post some of these things, just in a way that . . . sort of put it out there?”
If this is true, I may have to reconsider my doubts about the existence of a Deep State.
I also fear America is on shaky ground as the cyber and information wars heat up. I mean, if Moby is now considered a prized combatant, America is no match for her adversaries. America is not serious about winning.
Russian hackers have demonstrated the ability to screw around with democracy.
When Vladimir Putin wants to propagandize, he doesn’t enlist the help of homegrown musicians Vitas or Alla Pugacheva. He’s operating in stealth.
If the CIA needs Moby, the CIA is pretty much doomed.
Just go back and look at Moby’s original anti-Trump post from February.
He writes the U.S. president is, “being blackmailed by the russian (sic) government, not just for being peed on by Russian hookers, but for much more nefarious things . . . the trump (sic) administration is in collusion with the russian (sic) government, and has been since day one.”
Leaving the specifics aside — but, honestly, the CIA should give Moby a keyboard with upper-case capabilities — now we get to the part that has me concerned about his safety.
Over the last year, there have been a number of suspicious deaths in certain parts of the world that some believe are related to the Trump dossier.
But Moby is undaunted. He is pushing the allegations into new territory. He is accusing a sitting U.S. president of many heinous crimes.
As he told WFPK: “It’s really disturbing and it’s going to get quite a lot darker. Like the depths of the Trump family in business and their involvement with organized crime, sponsored terrorism, Russian oligarchs, like it’s really dark. I guess we should all, like, fasten our seatbelts and hold on.”
Did the guy best known for thumping tunes that mostly now play at spas and middle-aged dinner parties just accuse Trump of sponsoring terrorism?
And if this is the grade of sophistication he is bringing to this truthseeking mission, did these alleged CIA operatives not make a horrible mistake in tapping his bald head for duty?
Yes, Moby has more than a million Twitter followers. But Katy Perry has more than 100 million. The CIA should enlist her services. Given her own cold wars with superpowers like Taylor Swift, Perry probably has a far more nuanced approach to spreading key messages.
All Moby is doing right now is raising more questions.
And the biggest one is this: why on earth would the CIA need Moby?
Did the guy best known for thumping tunes that mostly now play at spas and middle-aged dinner parties just accuse Trump of sponsoring terrorism?