We all remember notorious fixer Gerald Butts, former principal secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who fell under the bus for his boss during the SNC Lavalin scandal..Like all Ottawa elites who find six-figure employment is a revolving door, Butts had a soft landing with an organization called the Eurasian Group with the laughable mandate of helping "you understand the world.”.It's difficult enough to understand Butts as he continues to take bullets for the fading Trudeau even as the erratic prime minister again embarrasses Canada on the world stage by delivering a shaky version of the gay rock group Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody in a London piano bar. Trudeau of course was in town to attend the funeral of another queen, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II..As we reported last Friday, the Twitter hashtag #TrudeauHasGotToGo has attracted massive attention on social media and has now gathered responses from more than 200,000 people who really do believe Trudeau has go to go..That prompted Butts to run for the conspiracy shelters as he insisted so many people couldn’t be upset with Trudeau and it just had to be the result of some vast right-wing conspiracy — but from where? Well, Butts couldn’t say exactly, because he didn’t know..But like all good Liberals with one foot in their mouths, Butts decided it was good enough to just smear the folks anyway..He tweeted on Sept. 16: “The real question is who is paying for this campaign?”.The real question is why anyone continues to pay your salary, Gerry..How much money does it cost to finance a Twitter campaign? Butts could be doing it with his expense fund..That outraged the guy who actually did start the campaign..Marty Belanger responded with a tweet and a video.“This is for @gmbutts and @ItsDeanBlundell. I started the most recent #TrudeauMustGo trend. Hear why. Any journalists who want to talk, just DM me. This is THE real story, not Gerry’s Russian conspiracy crap. I’m not affiliated with anyone. Sorry if I sound mad, Trudeau does that.”.Butts continued to live in his own reality, tweeting:.“I don’t doubt Marty is real. I don’t doubt that he believes he started this thing — which started in the US days before he thinks he started it. Sadly, he is being used. By whom?”.Once again, there is no truth here. The #TrudeauHasGotToGo was not started in the U.S. days before. There is evidence of an #AccordingToTrudeau hashtag but it has nothing to do with the former Twitter campaign that features mini-biographies of real people..And Butts actually has the nerve to suggest that Belanger is too damn stupid or dense to know he didn’t really start “this thing?” And that someone in the Kremlin or Republican National Committee headquarters did?.It goes to show you when someone has as much time to waste on social media as Butts does, he probably needs a real job. Perhaps the sadder thing is that Gerry isn’t being better used by someone else..How can I be sure these people on #TrudeauHasGotToGo are real? I listened to many of them on a Twitter space meeting last night. The host invited me to attend after reading my story on the campaign in the Western Standard. According to Twitter’s own tabulation, 1.7 thousand people attended that meeting. I can only describe it as a massive recovery meeting where people shared for three to five minutes how Trudeau’s COVID mandates affected them, and how they felt when he called them “misogynistic” or “racist” for not agreeing with his policies..People lost jobs, marriages and careers. Yet before the meeting began, the host played the national anthem and reminded everyone listening that swearing or violent speech would not be tolerated. Gerald Butts name came up a lot, especially since he spent the week smearing everyone present as pawns in a grand conspiracy against the noble lord Trudeau. But despite the great temptation to link Butts’ name with saving Trudeau’s posterior, I kept hearing, “He’s just doing his job.”.Strangely, it’s not his job anymore. But I suppose when you sell your soul to Trudeau and the Liberal Party it will always be your job to stomp on the little people who get in your way.
