{"id":353392,"date":"2018-03-22T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/deep-state-is-trying-to-bring-trump-down\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:03:00","slug":"deep-state-is-trying-to-bring-trump-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/deep-state-is-trying-to-bring-trump-down\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Deep State Is Trying To Bring Trump Down\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe deep state is the intelligence agencies that do not have oversight\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>March 22, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>During an appearance on The Laura Ingraham Show this week, Senator Rand Paul warned that \u201cAbsolutely, there is a deep state\u201d and that it is actively working to \u201ctry to bring Trump down.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe deep state is the intelligence agencies that do not have oversight,\u201d Paul said, adding \u201cOnly eight people in Congress know what they\u2019re doing, and traditionally, those eight people have been a rubber stamp to let the intelligence communities do whatever they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Senator was referring to the majority and minority leaders of the House and Senate, in addition to the chairmen and ranking members of the two intelligence committees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no skeptic among the eight people that are supposedly overseeing the intelligence community.\u201d Paul warned.<\/p>\n<p>The interview is 21 mins in:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3E7BPxqTitg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Senator then warned that intelligence heads, with the rubber stamp of the \u2018gang of 8\u2019 have abused their positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn Brennan and James Clapper were doing whatever the hell they wanted, without any judicial warrants,\u201d Paul declared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there were numerous people in the Obama administration who were using intelligence \u2014 one, to try to bring Trump down; but two, also, they were using it for political purposes,\u201d Paul stated, adding that \u201cthis is very, very worrisome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the real problem,\u201d Paul said, noting that founding father James Madison warned about such over reach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMadison said that men are not angels. And all you gotta do is look at John Brennan\u2019s tweet to know that he\u2019s not an angel. And listen to James Clapper lying to the Senate about whether they were spying on Americans.\u201d Paul said, referring to the following recent tweet from Brennan, aimed at the President:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/rand-paul-deep-state-is-trying-to-bring-trump-down.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe deep state is the intelligence agencies that do not have oversight\u201d Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comMarch 22, 2018 During an appearance on The Laura Ingraham Show this week, Senator Rand Paul warned that \u201cAbsolutely, there is a deep state\u201d and that it is actively working to \u201ctry to bring Trump down.\u201d \u201cThe deep state is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}