gambit

Using the same chess game metaphor used by Wikileaks leader Julian Assange on 12 January 2018 when he “accepted an offer” made to him by President Donald Trump, states this “Assange Gambit”—an opening move in chess where an initial sacrifice is made to gain a greater future advantage—came to fruition yesterday when British police forces in London announced that Assange had been “arrested on behalf of the United States authorities”—a move that can only be likened to Trump achieving “Checkmate”—a chess move in which a player’s king is threatened with capture and there is no way to remove the threat—against his “Deep State” adversaries—the most dangerous of whom is Hillary Clinton—who after her hearing of Assange being taken into custody for Trump, resignedly stated “he’s the only foreigner that this administration would welcome to the US” […]

President Donald Trump has pulled off one the most dangerous “gambit deals” [an action entailing a degree of risk calculated to gain an advantage] ever attempted in modern American political history when he pitted a $225 million military aid package to Pakistan against that nation’s Inter-Services Intelligence (IS) spy agency to pressure them into agreeing to immediately surrender a Pakistani woman to US authorities—and whose testimony could very well spell the “total doom” of the entire American Democratic Party.   […]