What Trump’s war on the ‘Deep State’ could mean: ‘An army of suck-ups'
By Bob Ortega, Kyung Lah, Allison Gordon and Nelli Black, CNN
Updated 4:41 PM EDT, Sat April 27, 2024
CNN —
At one campaign rally after another, former President Donald Trump whips his supporters into raucous cheers with a promise of what’s to come if he’s given another term in office: “We will demolish the deep state.”
In essence, it’s a declaration of war on the federal government—a vow to transform its size and scope and make it more beholden to Trump’s whims and worldview.
The former president’s statements, policy blueprints laid out by top officials in his first administration and interviews with allies show that Trump is poised to double down in a second term on executive orders that faltered, or those he was blocked from carrying out the first time around.
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