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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that he does not believe there are deep state forces at work at the State Department or CIA, despite President Donald Trump's claims of government employees conspiring against him.
Trump wrote on Twitter Wednesday, Look how things have turned around on the Criminal Deep State, a reference to the reports that a federal informant had contacted the Trump campaign in 2016, which the president and his allies have characterized as the FBI spying on him in its investigation of Russian interference in the election.
"I havent seen the comments from the president," Pompeo said during a hearing on Capitol Hill. "I dont believe theres a deep state at the State Department.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/23/mike-pompeo-no-deep-state-604199
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)is either an idiot or a criminal.
awesomerwb1
(4,267 posts)I'm sure the Deep State is making him ......
OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)it's the FBI and DOJ that's the criminal deep state!!! We didn't say anything about the CIA or State Department (what's left of it).
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)(snark) They may have to take away his conservative he-man secret decoder ring...