Trump and the Deep State: Is Everyone Getting It Wrong?
"One side claims the Deep State is a figment of our imagination. Another thinks of Trump as a fearless crusader against it. Both sides are missing something very important."
"One side claims the Deep State is a figment of our imagination. Another thinks of Trump as a fearless crusader against it. Both sides are missing something very important."
"Trump is not fighting the US deep state by advancing longtime US deep state agendas, and anyone who thinks that he is has had some very bad luck with thinking."
"No matter who sits on the throne, the office of the president of the United States has, for all intents and purposes, become a unilateral power unto itself."
"Whether collectivists realize it or not, they voted to put those kids in cages separated from their families. They voted for Trump to inherit the Obama era powers."
"Posada Carriles would later boast that 'the CIA taught us everything… they taught us explosives, how to kill, bomb, trained us in sabotage.'"
"The Canadian government funded Cameron with roughly $500,000 between 1950 and 1965 — $4 million in 2018 dollars, along with sizeable funding from the CIA."
"He confessed it was his father, Robert F. Kennedy, who doubted the intentions of the government’s intelligence agency."
"The US increasingly looks like a banana republic, where the permanent state and not the people get to decide who’s in charge."
"The CIA operative and FBI informant used to gather information on the 2016 Trump campaign has, for weeks, been falsely depicted as a sensitive intelligence asset rather than what he actually is: a long-time CIA operative with extensive links to the Bush family who was responsible for a dirty and likely illegal spying operation in the 1980 presidential election."
"The CIA had granted Provisional Security Approval to Bohning on Aug. 21, 1967, and Covert Security Approval on Nov. 14 of the same year. Bohning was given the cryptonym AMCARBON-3."