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Is President Trump the target of a “Charlotte Ops” campaign?
Reader Beware: The following may qualify as an unfounded conspiracy theory. A healthy dose of skepticism should be maintained while reading this essay.
By Kent R. Kroeger (May 25, 2018)
As Charlotte Hollis in the Robert Aldrich-directed film “Hush…Hush Sweet Charlotte,” Bette Davis portrayed an aging, wealthy recluse living in her family’s Louisiana mansion, whose fiancee was murdered 40 years earlier, a crime many felt she committed.
As she fights to keep her home from commercial developers, her cousin, Miriam, and Miriam’s beau, Drew, move into the mansion under the pretense of helping Charlotte in her fight. But, in fact, Miriam and Drew unleash a cruel psychological campaign against Charlotte to make her lose her sanity and force the court to transfer control of the family estate to Miriam.
After watching and reading the news for the past two weeks about Spygate, I’m wondering if Donald Trump is a real-life Charlotte Hollis, targeted by a sophisticated and coordinated psychological operation to make him go nuts.
What is a “Charlotte Op”?
Towards the end of my time in the U.S. intelligence community, I had the opportunity to study the U.S. intelligence agencies’ use of information and influence…
