The Two Most Powerful People in the US Government Plan to Visit Fort Knox to See if the Gold is Still There
Bettmann. Getty Images.When the election results became final in the early morning hours of November 6th, there's not a person in these United States who fully knew what to expect in the Trump presidency. But I think I can say without fear of contradiction that no one saw this one coming. That after exactly one month in office, Trump, with the help of Elon Musk, would be digging up one of the great if under-appreciated conspiracy theories of the last 50 years and getting to the bottom of it. But here we are.
Simply put, there's an obscure but firmly held belief that the US gold reserves in Fort Knox are gone. And Trump and Musk both intend to see for themselves:
"We hope everything is fine with Fort Knox. We're going to go to the fabled Fort Knox and make sure the gold is there. If the gold isn't there we're going to be very upset."
To be clear, this theory isn't that some international businessman has concocted an elaborate plot codenamed "Grand Slam" to irradiate the gold for 58 years, making it unusable, therefore crashing the world economy and making the gold supply he has carefully horded 10 times more valuable:
[Author's note: Holy moly does Goldfinger seem boring 60 years after the fact. I mean, there's a 20 minute sequence in the middle where they do nothing but play golf. How is this considered the best Bond movie?]
No, the conspiracy theory is much simpler than that. It holds that the gold supply was sold off in secret, right under our very noses. Less Goldfinger than this guy:
Or, God forbid, this criminal mastermind:
Which, according to the theory is why next to no one has been allowed into the facility to see for themselves over the last half a century. Not even long serving US Senators like Ron Paul:
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… his son Sen. Rand Paul:
… or Sen. Mike Lee:
How could there be a justification for this? These elected officials can get briefings on top secret weapons programs and tour bases where we keep things like Stealth bombers and advanced fighter jets. But a bank vault is strictly off limits? "Because"? Are they worried these guys will try to shoplift some of the gold? I mean, they're DC politicians, so I expect every one of them to steal as much as they can. But it's not like your average solon can lift a gold bar, much less carry one in their pocket or purse. And why would they bother? That's what they have insider trading for.
When the very people elected to the United States Senate, who are trusted with the nation's most sensitive information and empowered to make literal life and death decisions in times of war, aren't allowed as much as a tour of a facility, that's going to raise a lot of questions. And in the absence of any answers, it's to be expected that public is going to fill in the blanks with theories. Seemingly outlandish ones like this:
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Biggest story of the day: Senator Rand Paul is calling for an audit on Fort Knox to ensure the 4,580 tons US gold is still there
Here’s what you were NEVER TOLD about the gold at Fort Knox
America’s Wealth, The largest fortune in the history of the world, was stolen. The Fort Knox Gold Robbery:
An article was written connecting Rockefeller Family and The Federal Reserve
3 days later the source was thrown out of a window to her death
“So just how did the story of the Fort Knox gold robbery get out? It all started with an article in a New York periodical in 1974. The article charged that the Rockefeller family was manipulating the federal reserve to sell off Fort Knox Gold at bargain basement prices to anonymous European speculators. 3 days later, the anonymous source of the story, Louise Auchincloss Boyer, mysteriously fell to her death from the window of her 10th floor apartment in New York. How would missus Boyer have known of the Rockefeller connection to the Fort Knox Gold Heist?
She was the long time secretary of Nelson Rockefeller. For the next 14 years, this man, Ed Durell, a wealthy Ohio industrialist, devoted himself to a quest for the truth concerning the Fort Knox gold. He wrote thousands of letters to over 1,000 government and banking officials trying to find out how much gold was really left and where the rest of it had gone.
Edith Roosevelt, the granddaughter of president Teddy Roosevelt, questioned the actions of the government in a March 1975 edition of the New Hampshire Sunday news.
— Unfortunately, Ed Durell never did accomplish his primary goal, a full audit of the gold reserves in Fort Knox. It's incredible that the world's greatest treasure has had little accounting or auditing. This goal belonged to the American people, not the Federal Reserve and their foreign owners.
One thing is certain, the government could blow all of this speculation away in a few days with a well publicized audit under the searing lights of media cameras. It has chosen not to do so. One must conclude that they are afraid of the truth such an audit would reveal. What is the government so afraid of? Here's the answer:
When president Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, his conservative friends urged him to study the feasibility of returning to a gold standard as the only way to curb government spending. It sounded like a reasonable alternative, so President Reagan appointed a group of men called the Gold Commission to study the situation and report back to Congress. What Reagan's Gold Commission reported back to Congress in 1982 was the following shocking revelation concerning gold. The US Treasury owned no gold at all.
All the gold that was left in Fort Knox was now owned by the Federal Reserve, a group of private bankers, as collateral against the national debt.
The truth of the matter is that never before has so much money been stolen from the hands of the general public and put into the hands of a small group of private investors, the money changers”
I mean, as conspiracies go, this one has it all. Money. Power. Greed. Coverups. Deaths made to look like suicides. Influential families and the people around them. A small, secret cabal operating in the shadows. And above all, secrets where there shouldn't need to be any secrets.
Once the powers that be start saying, "There's nothing to see here," the first thing you want to do is see what that nothing is. It's human nature. Tell us not to look in the box and all we want is a look inside the box. And the opposite is true. If the people running Fort Knox said, "Hey you. Want to come take a free tour of Fort Knox?" most of us would say, "We're good" and be on our way. It would sound like a mildly interesting school field trip, not worth our time. It's the keeping us out that makes it so intriguing. And makes a good conspiracy theory.
So hopefully Trump and Musk do this, and livestream it. I have to think that the showman in both of them is dying to do exactly this. And millions will be watching. When I was a young man, Geraldo Riviera had a live prime time special where they were going to open a vault supposedly owned by Al Capone. And it was a fabulous disaster.
The opening took way longer than expected. Geraldo vamped as much as he could and ran out of things to say about it. As he was getting to the end of the show and it still wasn't open, he started telling the demolition expert to hurry up. In other words, to be less careful with the dynamite. And in the last like 10 seconds before getting cut off, he found out there was nothing in there at all.
The irony is, if Trump and Musk do this and find nothing, or even just a little gold, it'll be nothing less than the greatest scandal in American history. Either we still have approximately $434 billion in gold reserves, or we don't and the conspiracy is confirmed. Either way, we win. Yes. Let's do it, indeed.