by Cesare Sacchetti
The Ancient Roman saying, Excusatio petita, accusatio manifesta is often a source of pure truth. For non-English speaking people, it means that if you defend yourself for a crime for which you have not been accused of in the first place, you’re admitting your guilt.
And this say is the first thing that comes to mind when we read one of the latest tweets by Matteo Renzi, the former Italian PM.
Renzi claims that the accusations against him and Obama of conspiracy against President Trump are completely “foolish”, and he also considers “very concerning” the fact that someone thought that these claims could be true.
The recipient of this message was clearly another former Italian PM, Giuseppe Conte, who in 2019 collaborated with the Trump administration in order to ascertain the role of Italy in the Spygate case.
As probably many readers already know, Spygate is essentially the illegal espionage authorized by the Obama administration against Donald Trump in 2016. However, Spygate means also the attempt to falsely associate Trump with the Kremlin, by depicting him as a “Russian agent”.
This is at the heart of the Durham probe, and this is what directly involves Hillary Clinton, who would be the mastermind of this subversive operation.
According to George Papadopoulos and other sources, Italy played a crucial role in this international intrigue.
Barack Obama invited Matteo Renzi to the White House in October 2016 and it is believed that he asked the then Italian PM to participate in the effort to frame Trump.
Renzi allegedly agreed and would authorize the involvement of the Italian secret services in the Spygate operation.
In August 2019, Giuseppe Conte was the Italian PM but his government backed by the Five Stars Movement and the League of Matteo Salvini went through a political crisis and collapsed.
Matteo Salvini pulled the plug on his own government for reasons that would become clear in the following months. Since that moment, the leader of the League started working for another goal, which was the arrival of the former ECB president Draghi as the next Italian PM.
Probably some readers who considered Salvini to be a sort of “Italian Trump” would be puzzled by the fact that Salvini paved the way to power to an agent of the EU, but the reality is that Salvini has never been an “Italy First” politician.
However, in that particular phase of the Italian politics, Conte was working on ways to form a new government, this time formed by the Five Stars Movement and the Democratic Party.
Conte was perfectly aware that Trump would never back a government backed by the Italian branch of the US Democratic party and he authorized the collaboration between the Italian secret services and the Trump administration in order to clarify Italy’s role in Spygate.
And this collaboration is the focus of an article published by the Italian newspaper, La Repubblica, which is owned by the powerful Elkann family and is considered to be the mouthpiece of the Italian deep state.
In this article signed by Paolo Mastrolilli, Repubblica reports that the former AG William Barr came to Rome on August 15 2019, the day of Ferragosto, a holy day very special to Italy that dates back to Ancient Rome.
Barr had a very peculiar mission. He needed to establish if the Italian intelligence had participated in the plot to overthrow President Trump.
Repubblica reported all of Barr’s schedule. The AG met with Gennaro Vecchione, the head of DIS, the department of information for security. DIS is the structure that controls the entire network of the Italian secret services and it has therefore a key role in Italian national security.
All these events are not a secret. Vecchione and Conte confirmed the meeting held with Barr. For Repubblica, the “stone of scandal” is the fact that Barr and Vecchione had a dinner in a cozy restaurant in the beautiful center of Rome.
The Elkann-owned newspaper feared that in this dinner some secret plot could have been hatched against Renzi in order to reveal some hypothetical compromising information about him and about his eventual role in the Spygate case.
The irony in this story is that Repubblica is a newspaper that usually dismisses every information or scandal related to the deep state as “a conspiracy theory” while in this case, it is Repubblica itself that is building an elaborated conspiracy theory.
Certainly, it is not something new about the fact that foreign dignitaries have dinners with the Italian officials who receive them, and it is quite strange that Mastrolilli ignores this traditional diplomatic custom.
What seems to concern Repubblica is the possibility that the Italian secret services might have shared information that could harm Matteo Renzi and the Italian Democratic Party, of which Renzi was secretary.
Therefore, when the Italian deep state claims that is concerned for the “national interests”, it means in its jargon that it is concerned for the interests of the political establishment, which often clash with the ones of the country.
Conte was not, and has never been, Trump’s ally
At this point, it is important to clarify a particular issue. The former Italian PM, Giuseppe Conte, was not, and has never been, an ally of Trump.
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Conte comes from the Jesuit school, the same school that formed the current Italy’s PM and former ECB technocrat, Mario Draghi.
Before being appointed as PM by the Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Conte had a prolific academic career in the law area mostly due to his connection in the establishment.
The academic world is a world for a few selected people, and most of the professors belong to masonic lodges.
There are several inquiries and research that prove that the universities are a realm ruled by these masonic clubs, without which the academic career is simply a mirage.
Conte grew in this world and his sympathies for the establishment were not a secret, even before he would become Italy’s PM in 2018.