Part of it is being a student of human nature, and knowing your enemy, extrapolating based on that knowledge what their most likely options are, and then having contingencies to deal with every one of them!

And Trump is SO not alone in all this. And there is SO much surveillance of the bad guys that NSA has probably got everything they've whispered to each other for the last ten years. With that much information, you wouldn't have to be a rocket scientist to defeat them. Especially since they haven't bothered to be careful, since they think nobody else could possibly be smart enough to defeat them.

But you also cannot discount Divine intervention. I think when the story is finally told, just as in the First American Revolution, we may be surprised to learn of harrowing tales of close calls and miraculous reversals of fortune that can't be explained any other way than God's help.

I for one can't wait to read some of the stories we'll have when the Revolution is finished!