‘Deep state’ versus a president? It didn’t begin with Trump.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly attributed the impeachment inquiry against him to a conspiracy of left-leaning bureaucrats buried in the permanent government of the United States.
“Another whistleblower coming in from the Deep State!” he tweeted pointedly in early October, following news that a second federal foreign policy official with knowledge of Ukraine dealings was considering seeking the protection of whistleblower status.
The first whistleblower appears to be a government national security analyst of some sort who alleges that the president leveraged the powers of his office for personal political gain. And many of the officials who have broken ranks and testified behind closed doors in the House in recent days are career U.S. civil servants.
But that doesn’t mean there’s a conspiracy. It reflects instead the size and diversity of the vast
Fast-moving inquiryPolitical appointees, tooA bias for the status quo?