So a rich guy gets elected president, and world powers plot against him.

They attack him as being a Manchurian candidate for a foreign rival, saying that country hacked the election in his favor.

So, to demonstrate to the public that is not the case, the rich guy starts a national security counter intelligence effort, with hard core penalties for foreign meddling in elections, including the seizure of all assets for bad actors. Knowing he'd run for re-election, this would prove his innocence because if the allegations were true, he'd stand to lose everything. The rich guy's councilors advised him that such a cyber attack would be an act of war, but extremely hard to pin on a nation.

So, he tasks covert military intelligence to safeguard the US elections, and empowers the military and the office of the President to hit bad actors where it hurts. In the pocket book.

A network of people, in a web of shadow corporations and shell companies, that started as professional election riggers in South America, came into prominence as corrupt leaders saw an opportunity to leverage their skills since they'd repeatedly, successfully put the selected candidate in power.

They were financed by a cabal of energy companies that had bet big on the future they were certain was going to happen. They'd plotted about how they'd capitalize on middle east turmoil, European and Asian energy demands, and rising energy prices due to environmental regulations. They had a great plan. They'd establish huge energy companies that would dominate global markets by operating in areas unburdened by regulations.

Meanwhile, a consolidated, corporate media industry, whose news divisions are marginalized more and more by online information sensationalizes everything they can overtly attacked him at every opportunity. They receive funds to push stories, and their owners and personalities are rewarded with positions of power and access to information. These corporate entities' owners have a stake in seeing everything play out like the energy companies want, as access to lucrative markets are dangled in front of them. They gladly take foreign money to pose a narrative on an unsuspecting public.

When elected, the rich guy looked at the world, decides that making America energy independent is not only good for his country, but it also would greatly reduce tensions in the middle east. In fact, he determined, by taking decisive, bold action to help the people of the middle east suffering under out of control terrorist organizations, he could possibly make significant progress to peace in the middle east.

He does this, despite significant resistance from all sides, and begins to end as many wars as he can. This makes him extremely popular with the US Military enlisted.

The rich guy also creates a new branch of the military, which specializes in cyber warfare.

His actions completely disrupt the plans of the energy cabal set on world domination.

They vow he'll never be re-elected. So they create a complex web of international shell companies and they acquire a voting system company designed to steal elections, and begin to sell it in the USA. Sometimes resorting to blackmail or bribery to get their systems in place.

The rich guy learns of the plot and has Military Intelligence look into it. He discovers the cabal is based in a former eastern bloc nation known for its corruption, and during the investigation, he discovers a prominent political family has been interacting with energy companies in the same country.

The cabal panics and they try and get the rich guy removed from office on trumped up charges. The attempt is corrupt, and fails, despite the best efforts of the cabal and their allies in the media.

So the cabal hatches a plan for the rich guy's re-election.

A corrupt regime in Asia, desperate for energy revenue to bolster their manipulated currency, releases a virus into their population that 99%+ will survive, but those that die from it die horrible deaths, months before the election. They announce to the world a new virus is on the loose, and show propaganda of people collapsing in the street, causing world wide panic. Under the guise of this virus, the corrupt regime rounds up political dissidents and sends them to concentration camps. They release the virus in a major city then ban all travel from the city in their country, but not the world. They instruct their foreign assets to buy massive amounts of medical equipment needed to combat the virus, which they store in warehouses and never use.

The virus reaches America, and due to corruption in global political bodies, there's a lot of conflicting information. The Asian regime murders the scientists who didn't know what was going on, and they stall the global community from getting access to those scientists research. People around the globe panic, so anything that reinforces the worst case scenario is given credence.

The rich guy asks all the experts around him what to do, and makes some hard decisions for the sake of the people. He attacks the virus in completely unexpected ways, though, throwing his political opposition and their allies in the media into a frenzy of criticism and second guessing as he mobilizes American companies to combat the virus, and produce the equipment needed to save lives.

During this time, the military's covert operation to secure the election is in full swing. They're gathering intelligence. They're identifying spies, and who they're working with. They're tapping the Internet and setting up equipment to monitor the states and counties.

Under the guise of combating the virus, the cabal convinces many in the USA to compromise the election to get them access, some partisans need little to no incentive.

The US Military watches it all unfold.

Military Intelligence documents the concerted and ongoing effort to influence US Officials with kickbacks to their family members, blackmail, and large payments to media companies to smear their targets.

The rich guy purportedly loses the election

After it happens, the Military comes to the rich guy and says "Mr. President, we've uncovered that the country that was influencing officials actually manipulated the results, by proxy! Here's the proof."

In a daring raid, a crack military unit raids a foreign data center and seizes servers in Europe that were used to forge the results. A dashing blonde haired, blue eyed computer expert cracks the encryption and they discover code (sounds like me, go figure) that took a legitimate ballot for the rich guy, duplicated it, and sent it into an automated process that would give the vote to the other candidate.

The voting system has a feature to adjudicate ballots without a human, weighting the results for one candidate or another. So they programmed their voting system to copy a ballot, send it to these servers, which would then count it for the rich guy's opponent, and feed that to the media and back into the voting machines in America. The cabal drives a campaign to coronate their candidate as the new President. Meanwhile, the rich guy is considering what the military is telling him. He says he's going to tell the world, and the Military tell him that if a country would do this, it's possible they'd strike militarily when he exposed them.

So he stalls. His dashing Secretary of Defense is traveling in Asia and he's called back to put the military on guard just in case.

He attempts to avoid having to reveal what the Military knows, knowing it could create upheaval around the globe and possibly outright war. He is thwarted by corrupt members of his own party, people once considered loyalists.

He cryptically tells his citizens he's trying to stop the world from blowing itself up.

To no avail.

Quietly, the rich guy positions the military to defend America as he prepares to unveil to world the plot to destroy America, and seize control of the planet for a corrupt group of despots, elite families, and oppressive regimes.

The rich guy knows it will be a war of information, for the minds of the American people; many of whom will be caught completely unaware.

I'm not sure where the story goes from there...

So a rich guy gets elected president, and world powers plot against him.

They attack him as being a Manchurian candidate for a foreign rival, saying that country hacked the election in his favor.

So, to demonstrate to the public that is not the case, the rich guy starts a national security counter intelligence effort, with hard core penalties for foreign meddling in elections, including the seizure of all assets for bad actors. Knowing he'd run for re-election, this would prove his innocence because if the allegations were true, he'd stand to lose everything. The rich guy's councilors advised him that such a cyber attack would be an act of war, but extremely hard to pin on a nation.

So, he tasks covert military intelligence to safeguard the US elections, and empowers the military and the office of the President to hit bad actors where it hurts. In the pocket book.

A network of people, in a web of shadow corporations and shell companies, that started as professional election riggers in South America, came into prominence as corrupt leaders saw an opportunity to leverage their skills since they'd repeatedly, successfully put the selected candidate in power.

They were financed by a cabal of energy companies that had bet big on the future they were certain was going to happen. They'd plotted about how they'd capitalize on middle east turmoil, European and Asian energy demands, and rising energy prices due to environmental regulations. They had a great plan. They'd establish huge energy companies that would dominate global markets by operating in areas unburdened by regulations.

Meanwhile, a consolidated, corporate media industry, whose news divisions are marginalized more and more by online information sensationalizes everything they can overtly attacked him at every opportunity. They receive funds to push stories, and their owners and personalities are rewarded with positions of power and access to information. These corporate entities' owners have a stake in seeing everything play out like the energy companies want, as access to lucrative markets are dangled in front of them. They gladly take foreign money to pose a narrative on an unsuspecting public.

When elected, the rich guy looked at the world, decides that making America energy independent is not only good for his country, but it also would greatly reduce tensions in the middle east. In fact, he determined, by taking decisive, bold action to help the people of the middle east suffering under out of control terrorist organizations, he could possibly make significant progress to peace in the middle east.

He does this, despite significant resistance from all sides, and begins to end as many wars as he can. This makes him extremely popular with the US Military enlisted.

The rich guy also creates a new branch of the military, which specializes in cyber warfare.

His actions completely disrupt the plans of the energy cabal set on world domination.

They vow he'll never be re-elected. So they create a complex web of international shell companies and they acquire a voting system company designed to steal elections, and begin to sell it in the USA. Sometimes resorting to blackmail or bribery to get their systems in place.

The rich guy learns of the plot and has Military Intelligence look into it. He discovers the cabal is based in a former eastern bloc nation known for its corruption, and during the investigation, he discovers a prominent political family has been interacting with energy companies in the same country.

The cabal panics and they try and get the rich guy removed from office on trumped up charges. The attempt is corrupt, and fails, despite the best efforts of the cabal to have their allies in the media.

So the cabal hatches a plan for the rich guy's re-election.

A corrupt regime in Asia, desperate for energy revenue to bolster their manipulated currency, releases a virus into their population that 99%+ will survive, but those that die from it die horrible deaths, months before the election. They announce to the world a new virus is on the loose, and show propaganda of people collapsing in the street, causing world wide panic. Under the guise of this virus, the corrupt regime rounds up political dissidents and sends them to concentration camps. They release the virus in a major city then ban all travel from the city in their country, but not the world. They instruct their foreign assets to buy massive amounts of medical equipment needed to combat the virus, which they store in warehouses and never use. The virus reaches America, and due to corruption in global political bodies, there's a lot of conflicting information. The Asian regime murders the scientists who didn't know what was going on, and they stall the global community from getting access to those scientists research. People around the globe panic, so anything that reinforces the worst case scenario is given credence.

The rich guy asks all the experts around him what to do, and makes some hard decisions for the sake of the people. He attacks the virus in completely unexpected ways, though, throwing his political opposition and their allies in the media into a frenzy of criticism and second guessing as he mobilizes American companies to combat the virus, and produce the equipment needed to save lives.

During this time, the military's covert operation to secure the election is in full swing. They're gathering intelligence. They're identifying spies, and who they're working with. They're tapping the Internet and setting up equipment to monitor the states and counties.

Under the guise of combating the virus, they convince many in the USA to compromise the election to get them access.

The US Military watches it all unfold.

Military Intelligence documents the concerted and ongoing effort to influence US Officials with kickbacks to their family members, blackmail, and large payments to media companies to smear their targets.

The rich guy purportedly loses the election

After it happens, the Military comes to the rich guy and says "Mr President, we've uncovered that the country that was influencing officials actually manipulated the results, by proxy! Here's the proof."

In a daring raid, a crack military unit raids a foreign data center and seizes servers in Europe that were used to forge the results. A dashing blonde haired, blue eyed computer expert cracks the encryption and they discover code (sounds like me, go figure) that took a legitimate ballot for the rich guy, duplicated it, and sent it into an automated process that would give the vote to the other candidate.

The voting system has a feature to adjudicate ballots without a human, weighting the results for one candidate or another. So they programmed their voting system to copy a ballot, send it to these servers, which would then count it for the rich guy's opponent, and feed that to the media and back into the voting machines in America. The cabal drives a campaign to coronate their candidate as the new President. Meanwhile, the rich guy is considering what the military is telling him. He says he's going to tell the world, and the Military tell him that if a country would do this, it's possible they'd strike militarily when he exposed them.

So he stalls. His dashing Secretary of Defense is traveling in Asia and he's called back to put the military on guard just in case.

He attempts to avoid having to reveal what the Military knows, knowing it could create upheaval around the globe and possibly outright war. He is thwarted by corrupt members of his own party, people once considered loyalists.

He cryptically tells his citizens he's trying to stop the world from blowing itself up.

To no avail.

Quietly, the rich guy positions the military to defend America as he prepares to unveil to world the plot to destroy America, and seize control of the planet for a corrupt group of despots, elite families, and oppressive regimes.

The rich guy knows it will be a war of information, for the minds of the American people; many of whom will be caught completely unaware.

I'm not sure where the story goes from there...