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Deep state A “deep state” is defined as “a body of people, typically influential members of government agencies or the military, believed to be involved in the secret manipulation or control of government policy” (Oxford English Dictionary). The term originated in the 1990s in Turkey to describe a powerful, unelected government consisting of bureaucrats, intelligence agents and military officers.
https://www.thetrumpet.com/17152-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-deep-state
Undated: While definitions vary, the term gained popularity among various groups, primarily supporters of Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and conspiracy theorists, during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, in opposition to establishment Republican and Democratic candidates. Since Trump's inauguration, the term has been used by some commentators, who argue that a "deep state", involving the FBI, CIA, NSA, former President Barack Obama, and/or Hillary Clinton, is aiming to delegitimize the Trump presidency and thwart its policy goals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_the_United_States
Undated: CREW's activities include investigating, reporting and litigating government misconduct, requesting and forcing government information disclosure through FOIA requests, and filing congressional ethics complaints against individuals, institutions and agencies.[6][5] Its projects have included the publication of "CREW's Most Corrupt Members of Congress", an annual report in which CREW lists the people it determines to be the Federal government of the United States's most corrupt politicians. From 2005 and 2014 the annual reports named 25 Democrats and 63 Republicans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington
-- 2017 --
February 22: Even if the deep state isn't real, the idea of one could do real damage.
https://newrepublic.com/article/140804/donald-trump-can-lot-deep-state
March 8: A far-right website loyal to Donald Trump says a so-called “Deep State” is the force behind a “covert resistance” to the new President. White House aides reportedly blame it for the daily stream of leaks that have kept Trump’s team on the defensive since before he even took office.
... until recently, “Deep State” was a term mainly used outside the United States, and generally associated with authoritarian regimes like Turkey and Egypt. And government experts are skeptical one exists in America.
Trump himself hasn’t used the phrase in public. Most references from the President himself have been more subtle, alluding to conspiracy theories, like Saturday’s tweet-storm accusing Obama — without any evidence — of wiretapping Trump Tower before the election, or pondering on social media why intelligence officials are apparently leaking information to the media. What Trump accused Obama of would be a federal crime and there are safeguards in place to prevent Presidents from ordering this kind of surveillance.
http://time.com/4692178/donald-trump-deep-state-breitbart-barack-obama/
March 14: Trump's wiretapping claims revive deep state theory
Some on the US right believe that ex-White House officials are trying to undermine President Donald Trump's government.
They call it the "shadow government" or "deep state": the idea that a parallel, hostile group of ex-White House officials and state actors are secretly undermining US President Donald Trump’s government.
In the past, such theories would remain on conspiracy websites, conservative radio talk shows or pop up in tweets from questionable accounts. But with Trump's recent tweets accusing former president Barack Obama of spying on him during the election campaign, the theories have been given new life and to some, credibility.
https://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/americas/2017/03/trump-wiretapping-deep-state-theory-170314201722090.html
April 29: The idea that a "deep state" exists inside the federal government has risen to prominence during the first 100 days of President Donald Trump's administration -- but what does it mean? And does it actually exist?
Steve Bannon is [a] most ardent believer ... that a deep state exists, telling conservatives earlier this year that the "deconstruction of the administrative state" was important to the new White House.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/deep-state/story?id=47086646
May 15: Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.463d04dd39bf
May 15: Among some on the far right ... the real story [of Trump's releasing classified info to the Russians] is so-called deep-state actors working from inside the intelligence community to undermine the president.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-deep-state-bannon-cia-fbi-breitbart-fox-news-2017-5
-- 2018 --
January 2: President Donald Trump accused the Justice Department Tuesday of being part of the “deep state” and urged prosecution against a top aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former FBI Director James Comey.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-accuses-justice-department-of-being-part-of-deep-state
February 1: The Key Players In Trump’s ‘Deep State’ Conspiracy Theory Are All Republicans
The key law enforcement figures in what President Donald Trump and his allies have characterized as a “deep state” conspiracy against him are not lefties or even Democrats: They are Republicans. And Trump picked a number of them himself.
Trump and Republicans are continuing to attack the nation’s top law enforcement organizations to undermine the special counsel investigation into his campaign, which has already resulted in criminal charges against four Trump associates. But factually speaking, it’s really tough for Trump backers to credibly argue that the deck has been stacked against the president, simply based on the political leanings of the key figures in the case.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-russia-probe-republicans-deep-state_us_5a737d6ee4b06ee97af0d4dd
February 7: Trump built his own “deep state.” Now he needs the GOP to save him from it.
Trump hired the people he now believes are out to get him.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/7/16974178/trump-deep-state
May 14: The ‘deep state’ is in Trump’s own White House
President Trump complains about a “deep state” of government officials who work in his administration yet are supposedly undermining him in secret. To the extent such shadowy figures exist, they are not all career employees of federal agencies; many are on Trump's team in the White House.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
May 17: How Trump's 'War' On The 'Deep State' Is Leading To The Dismantling Of Government
"... do you think Trump's goal is to shrink the government or to remove people who aren't hardcore Trump supporters or both or other things?"
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/17/611922875/how-trump-s-war-on-the-deep-state-is-leading-to-the-dismantling-of-government
May 18: Trump’s New Russia Scandal Theory: The FBI Set Him Up. There’s One Small Flaw.
... the latest working theory ... holds that James Comey planted a spy in the Trump campaign, in order to set in motion an investigation that would be used to smear Trump as a Russian tool, and thereby to hand the election to Hillary Clinton. This is the theory Trump is referring to when he rages about a plot that is “worse than Watergate.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/new-trump-russia-investigation-theory-fbi-spy-set-him-up.html
May 20: Forget the Deep State -- This Is the Trump State
Trump has created a government that reflects himself, in which the most important question is what he and his accomplices can take for themselves.
[Trump tweet]: I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!.
Yes, that's the president of the United States, "hereby demanding" an investigation into the investigation of him, and along with it an investigation into his political enemies.
http://prospect.org/article/forget-deep-state-trump-state
May 21: Trump vs. the “Deep State” ... How the Administration’s loyalists are quietly reshaping American governance.
Every new President disturbs the disposition of power in Washington. Stars fade. Political appointees arrive, assuming control of a bureaucracy that encompasses 2.8 million civilian employees, across two hundred and fifty agencies—from Forest Service smoke jumpers in Alaska to C.I.A. code-breakers in Virginia. “It’s like taking over two hundred and fifty private corporations at one time,” David Lewis, the chair of the political-science department at Vanderbilt University, told me.
Typically, an incoming President seeks to charm, co-opt, and, when necessary, coerce the federal workforce into executing his vision. But Trump got to Washington by promising to unmake the political ecosystem, eradicating the existing species and populating it anew.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/21/trump-vs-the-deep-state
May 23: Rosenstein Defends Justice Department, FBI From Trump’s ‘Criminal Deep State’ Attack
The deputy attorney general, perpetually on the verge of being fired, didn’t respond to Trump explicitly. Nor did he need to.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rosenstein-defends-justice-department-fbi-from-trumps-criminal-deep-state-attack
August 9: It's Not The Deep State That Hurts Trump — It's The Shallow State
President Trump and his supporters have often complained about the "deep state" — a supposedly shadowy cabal of opposition bureaucrats buried deep within the government. But perhaps the biggest impediment to the president isn't the deep state at all. It's the "shallow state" — which exists right below Donald Trump at the Cabinet level.
After all, there's a distinct pattern in the administration. The president makes a claim that seems to contradict longstanding policy. Shortly thereafter, a Cabinet member or two will step up to a microphone and reiterate U.S. policy, contradicting the president.
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/09/635021427/its-not-the-deep-state-that-hurts-trump-it-s-the-shallow-state
September 8: ‘Deep State’: the mysterious source of Donald Trump’s paranoia
“This entity is called the civil service, and it was created to limit the power of the president.”
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2163348/deep-state-mysterious-source-donald-trumps-paranoia
September 20: In an interview with Hill.TV published on Wednesday, Trump claimed he didn’t like people (including Fox News hosts) who use the phrase “deep state” to denote “the federal bureaucracy.”
“I don’t like to use it because it sounds so conspiratorial, and believe it or not I’m really not a conspiratorial person,” claimed Trump, who is a fan of pushing conspiracy theories on all manner of topics, from former President Barack Obama’s birthplace to the death toll from the 2017 hurricanes in Puerto Rico.
Not surprisingly, Trump has repeatedly used the term in a conspiratorial way on Twitter:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-deep-state-lie_us_5ba35119e4b069d5f9cff523
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