Page 214 - Planet Rothschild. Volume 1 : the forbidden history of the new world order, 1763-1939

1910-1912

TR VICIOUSLY TURNS ON PRESIDENT TAFT

TR had groomed Taft to be his “progressive” successor. But he is disappointed
when Taft turns out to be his own man on issues such as tariffs and “trust
busting”. Ironically, Taft actually breaks up more monopolistic trusts than
Roosevelt ever had a fact which should have made him beloved by the
“progressives”. But Taft ran afoul of TR when he tried to break up J.P. Morgan’s
U.S. Steel, which happened to be a trust that TR supported. Roosevelt accuses
Taft of not knowing a “good” trust from a “bad” one. Once again, the
exaggerated myth of TR being the arch-enemy of the Rockefeller-Morgan crowd
reveals itself as public propaganda.

Taft had also angered Jacob Schiff by refusing to apply economic sanctions to
Czarist Russia. With the Rothschild-Schiff gang behind him Roosevelt turns
against his old friend and viciously criticizes his successor. Taft is hurt and
stunned by TR's venom, but he remains firm in his Constitutionalism. Taft hits
back at the Progressives, stating, "They (Progressives) are seeking to pull down
the temple of freedom and representative government." (1) Due to TR’s petty

vindictiveness, the ideological differences undermine the friendship and
personally hurt Taft to his core. The friendship between the two men is
destroyed when TR launches continuous insults at the honorable Taft and then,
at the urging of Baruch, Schiff and company, runs for President as third party
spoiler.

Never before, and never since, has an ex-President so publicly interfered and

undermined the Presidency of his successor. The Taft-Roosevelt split is the
beginning of a deep divide in the Republican Party that still exists (though
Constitutionalist Republicans are very few now.)