{"id":69419,"date":"2017-03-22T16:14:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69419"},"modified":"2017-03-22T16:14:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:14:58","slug":"white-house-deep-state-real-attacks-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69419","title":{"rendered":"White House: &#8216;Deep State&#8217; Real, Attacks Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3\/21\/17: White House Press Briefing\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kbB8qVKC1Zk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By Jason Devaney<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>The White House acknowledged Tuesday\u00a0there are people working in the government who are likely part of what has been called the &#8220;deep state&#8221; \u2013 an inner core of Obama loyalists seeking to stop the Trump presidency.<\/p>\n<p>During Tuesday&#8217;s White House press briefing, Newsmax&#8217;s John Gizzi asked White House press secretary Sean Spicer about <a href=\"http:\/\/w3.newsmax.com\/General\/NMM\/Offers\/Big-Agenda-Discount\"><strong>David Horowitz&#8217;s new book &#8220;Big Agenda&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and claims Horowitz has made a &#8220;deep state&#8221;\u00a0has been seeking to undermine President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been widely repeated on social media: Does the president himself believe in this deep state?&#8221; Gizzi asked.<\/p>\n<p>Spicer replied: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been asked this question before, and I&#8217;ll give you the same answer I&#8217;ve given before. This has been going on since the country came to be, where people burrow in after an administration into a civil servant job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added, ominously, &#8220;But, sure, there are people after eight years of Obama that found their way into government, so it should be no huge secret.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w3.newsmax.com\/General\/NMM\/Offers\/Big-Agenda-Discount\"><strong>Horowitz&#8217;s new &#8220;Big Agenda&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0New York Times bestseller and instant #1 Amazon bestseller \u2013 claims Obama created a &#8220;government-in-exile&#8221; to thwart the new Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Published the week of Trump&#8217;s inauguration, &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/w3.newsmax.com\/General\/NMM\/Offers\/Big-Agenda-Discount\">Big Agenda<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; offered a game plan for the new administration to battle Obama loyalists and a hostile media.<\/p>\n<p>Horowitz has been a close confidante and friend to some of Trump&#8217;s key advisors, including Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Trump confidante and former House Speaker <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/US-Trump-Deep-State-leaks\/2017\/03\/14\/id\/778718\/\">Newt Gingrich also said the deep state is real<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, the deep state exists,&#8221; Gingrich said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a permanent state of massive bureaucracies that do whatever they want and set up deliberate leaks to attack the president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is what the deep state does: They create a lie, spread a lie, fail to check the lie, and then deny that they were behind the lie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/White-House-deep-state-trump-obama\/2017\/03\/21\/id\/780036\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/White-House-deep-state-trump-obama\/2017\/03\/21\/id\/780036\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}