UPDATED: Manafort, Gates charged with conspiracy against US

[AntiFascist]

68. Trump should stop railing against the "deep state"...

in light of Manafort's connections. Obviously he has been trying to redefine the term in the United States, but it originally refered to ultra-right anti-Communist criminal organizations centered in Turkey, the likes of which sound much like those who support Putin in Russia:

https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/03/economist-explains-6

But the deep state started life as something else entirely. Citizens in Turkey, where the term originated, have long worried about the derin devlet (“deep state”), which refers to a network of individuals in different branches of government, with links to retired generals and organised crime, that existed without the knowledge of high-ranking military officers and politicians. Its goal was purportedly to preserve secularism and destroy communism by any means necessary, outside the regular chain of command. Starting in the 1950s Turkey’s deep state sponsored killings, engineered riots, colluded with drug traffickers, staged “false flag” attacks and organised massacres of trade unionists. Thousands died in the chaos it fomented.

In its present avatar, “deep state” seems set to go the way of “fake news” in American discourse, a once-useful term rendered meaningless by promiscuous repetition, often in reference to quite different things. Turkey is a pioneer here too. After a handful of city councils in Germany recently cancelled rallies in support for Mr Erdogan, Turkey’s foreign minister offered a simple explanation: “This is a systematic move of the German deep state”.