Open Letter to President Trump
Please investigate the intelligence assets that have infiltrated MAGA.
Dear President Trump,
You are doing truly outstanding work. You have sealed the border, taken unprecedented and welcome steps to fight violent crime and make women safe in this country again, advanced world peace, and rebalanced global trade to America’s benefit. You have also brought in record foreign investment—$17 trillion—to help revolutionize American manufacturing so we can compete with China. When Americans recognize what you have achieved with the largest middle-class tax cuts in history, and as that foreign investment begins to trickle down, Republicans should run the table in next year’s midterms.
But there is an insurgency of foreign and domestic intelligence assets operating within MAGA that seeks to destroy your legacy, turn your base against you, and hand next year’s elections to the Democrats.
The figureheads of this insurgency include General Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, and others. This vast influence operation has compromised many MAGA influencers who now parrot destructive intelligence narratives—similar to the mainstream media, only translated into language that appeals to conservatives while working to undermine you from within.
It is also a tactical takeover of state and local Republican parties. You may recall my piece nearly two years ago about Mike Labadie, a self-professed intelligence operative who gained psychological control over Kristina Karamo and much of the Michigan GOP. I now believe he was working directly with Flynn, who was executing the same operation nationwide.
Karamo and Kari Lake’s campaign manager, Caroline Wren—a former McCain aide closely tied to Bannon—boasted publicly about how Karamo had driven away “all 78” of MIGOP’s large donors just a year before the crucial 2024 election. She also alienated every key non-Christian constituency, declaring that the party was now “a Christian party.” This strategy has been replicated across the country.
On June 4, 2024, I broke a story about Shelby Busch, chair of the Arizona GOP delegation to the national convention, who held a training session for delegates on how to suspend the rules and nominate a new candidate from the floor. They claimed this was to protect you, but that defies logic. I now believe the purpose was to replace you with Flynn had you been killed on July 13. Busch’s PAC received more than $700,000 from Flynn’s The America Project, Patrick Byrne, and Mike Lindell prior to that event.
To be clear, I don’t think the delegates—or possibly even Busch—knew about the assassination attempt. But I believe Flynn and his inner circle did. Two independent sources who worked directly with Flynn, his family, and Roger Stone confirmed that Flynn and Stone were preparing a Flynn 2024 “contingency campaign” as early as 2021. Flynn’s own siblings were confident he would be president by early 2024. Flynn repeatedly mentioned the possibility of your assassination in the year leading up to July 13, 2024.
His lieutenant, Ivan Raiklin—who has admitted to working as a contractor for the DIA while coordinating Stop the Steal and January 6 operations—said on Alex Jones’ show in early 2024 that if the “deep state” assassinated you, “option 2, behind Trump, would be so much better for us and so much worse for them.” Jones agreed, “If they kill him, that’s the best case scenario… it’s so good after that.” Raiklin responded, “It’s going to be the best cleansing we’ve ever seen.”
This was not the first or last plot against you by these deep-state insurgents within MAGA.
Flynn was an insurgent in your 2016 campaign. I believe the Russia-collusion hoax would have been impossible without his involvement. The 2017 DIA letter to Chaffetz and Cummings would show this if it and its attachments were finally declassified.
Then, on December 18, 2020, Flynn, Patrick Byrne, and Sidney Powell came to you with a document drafted by Christina Bobb that would have had you invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy the military and seize ballots and machines in seven swing counties. Had you done this, a hand recount—which we all expected would reveal fraud because of the machine-fraud psyop—would have confirmed the tabulator tally, as Democrats had gone to great pains to ensure a ballot for every vote. It would have validated the results, been branded a military coup attempt, and they would have tried to charge you with treason.
This was, in my view, the primary objective of the machine-fraud psyop. While there are vulnerabilities in voting machines, there is no evidence they were exploited in 2020. The purpose of the operation was to set you up—to have you and your supporters look under the wrong rock, to brand you as attempting a coup, and to convince voters that “it’s all rigged,” thereby suppressing GOP turnout in 2022 and beyond.
Patrick Byrne has since admitted he is a federal asset; his own attorney said in court that he is a “national intelligence asset.” Flynn himself has acknowledged knowing this as he worked closely with Byrne, who claimed to have taken orders from Comey and Brennan.
I have spoken to multiple people whose lives were destroyed by this network, including Staci Burk, who was reportedly kidnapped and terrorized in her home for months in 2020–2021 by First Amendment Praetorian—a group of former Blackwater operatives under Flynn’s direction.
Tina Peters’ life was also ruined by them. She would not be in prison today if Flynn’s operatives, including Kurt Olsen, hadn’t deceived her into believing that Conan Hayes, a surfer and part of Flynn’s Allied Special Operations Group, was a top secret white hat who had to be protected. She was directed to commit actions she believed were patriotic, even if illegal. Her disastrous legal defense, steered by Flynn’s allies, ensured her conviction—turning her into a martyr to further inflame MAGA into anger and violence.
Ivan Raiklin has been explicit about that goal. His “Deep State Target List” includes federal judges and even members of your own administration, and he advocates openly for violence and extrajudicial “cleansing” and “retribution.”
In short: I believe this network aims to radicalize segments of MAGA against you and your administration, driving them toward violent revolution to justify dismantling the First and Second Amendments. Flynn’s 2012 DIA white paper, National Security Challenges, outlines precisely these tactics.
Solutions
Treat the Flynn network like the CCP: Identify those compromised, their narrative objectives, and keep them out of positions of influence. Kurt Olsen and Ed Martin warrant close review for their current proximity to Flynn and his associates.
Investigate Intelligence Community involvement: The DNI should expose foreign and domestic psychological operations against Americans. Flynn and Byrne have repeatedly indicated close cooperation with current ODNI leadership.
Prosecute incitement: Raiklin’s continued public incitement to violence constitutes a clear and present danger and should be addressed under federal law.
Support Tina Peters’ appeal: Her only viable defense is to show she was set up by Flynn’s network, not to relitigate election fraud. I do not believe her current legal team or strategy will succeed, but will endanger her chances at future appeal.
Expose the insurgency publicly: Bring the evidence to light. The truth will strengthen—not weaken—your base. I am willing to assist your team in presenting the evidentiary case.
Mr. President, your first ten months have already transformed the country. My children and I pray for you often and are grateful not only for your historic policy achievements but for your example of courage and perseverance. May God protect you and guide you as you continue leading America toward renewal, prosperity and peace.
Sincerely,
Scott McMahan