Will the Deep State Strike Back? It’s telling that what’s good for American citizens is bad for Trump’s entrenched opponents.

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Posted on 01/20/2025 6:47:04 AM PST by MtnClimber

As President Trump comes back into office, a crucial question lingers. What kind of resistance will the new administration face from the Establishment Deep State? Will the political mandate of Trump and JD Vance, coupled with the downsizing attacks from Elon and Vivek, be enough to push the establishment back on their heels? What plans has the Deep State drawn up for Trump’s return?

Trump has already survived two separate assassination attempts—one of which failed by mere centimeters. We’re hoping the adage “If you shoot for the King you better not miss” holds true but we find ourselves concerned over what other plots the Deep State may have in store.

We’re not allowing ourselves to become Black-pilled (we’re actually quite optimistic longer-term) but we are trying to be realistic about the foes that President Trump faces. As we know all too well, in 2016 Trump came into office hoping to Drain the Swamp. He found himself up against a vast ocean of corruption.

Trump was attacked from the moment he took office and those attacks never really let up. Unprecedented levels of leaking by anonymous intelligence officials was a daily occurrence. Entire federal agencies were arrayed against him. The media unquestioningly published whatever they were fed, no matter how outlandish the claims.

Indeed, although it’s easy to forget the sheer toxicity of the political environment during those early months, it was far from certain that the young Trump Administration would make it through 2017—much less the full four years of his presidential term.

It’s also worth remembering that in early 2017, Republicans were in a position of very real power. The GOP held the House, the Senate, the White House and a majority of governorships. And yet some of the biggest threats to Trump came not from Democrats but from Establishment Republicans.

Which raises a question of its own. What good is having a Republican majority in Congress if all they do is thwart the Republican president? This complete abdication by most of the GOP is a very real part of the reason why Republicans predictably lost the House in the 2018 midterm elections. And, of course, SpyGate and the Russia-Collusion narrative continued unabated.

Then, just as the Trump Administration was finally finding its footing in 2019, the State Department-led impeachment of Trump began. An impeachment effort that was a violent, systemic response to Trump’s questioning of Biden’s corruption in Ukraine—and our country’s larger actions in that region over the last two decades.

It is these systemic responses that have our attention. As we noted in a previous article, Obama’s presidency not only brought about significant division and policy shifts but also laid the groundwork for a network of fanatical loyalists and ideological allies, many of whom remain entrenched in both governmental and non-governmental institutions.

These figures, often former members of the Obama administration, have undermined democracy and the will of the people across multiple presidencies and they remain active in government roles through multiple administrations. Key figures in intelligence, defense, statecraft and other critical sectors often retain their positions or reemerge in different roles, reinforcing the perception of undemocratic continuity across American governance.

In part, this is why we contend that it’s unlikely that the Deep State simply goes quietly into the night and accepts their defeat. As we and others have said many times, there are literally trillions of dollars at stake.

All of our readers are familiar with Spygate and the fabricated Russia-Collusion narrative so we won’t rehash the entirety of that here but there are several moments that we feel are worth revisiting as a reminder of the Obama-backed forces that were mobilized against President Trump and his young first administration.

On Jan. 3, 2017, Section 2.3 of Executive Order 12333 was signed into effect by the outgoing Obama administration. The new order allowed for other intelligence agencies to ask the National Security Agency (NSA) for access to specific surveillance simply by claiming the intercepts contained relevant information that would be useful to a particular mission.

At the time, we questioned the timing of the order and possible ulterior motives on the part of the Obama White House. Why the pressing need to rush this order during the final days of his office? And why did the order allow for significant expansion in the sharing of raw intelligence amongst agencies.

One of the items within this provision prohibited dissemination of information to the White House. Remember that this provision would not impact Obama whose administration ended in two weeks. But it would most definitely impact the dissemination of information to the incoming Trump administration.

In other words, if this new provision had been implemented in early 2016 as originally scheduled, dissemination of any raw intelligence on or relating to the Trump campaign to officials within the Obama White House would likely have been made more difficult or quite possibly prohibited.

Said differently, prior to the January 2017 signing of Section 2.3, it appears that greater latitude existed for officials in the Obama administration to gain access to information. But once the order was signed into effect, Section 2.3 granted greater latitude to interagency sharing of that information, setting the stage for the massive intelligence community leaking that was still to come....SNIP

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1 posted on 01/20/2025 6:47:04 AM PST by MtnClimber

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