WASHINGTON, DC- Former President Donald Trump, currently the leading Republican candidate for president heading into next year’s presidential primaries, has laid out a “10-point plan” to “shatter the deep state.”
For anyone who previously doubted the deep state's existence, events over the past several years should shatter those doubts. Now Trump, seeking a rematch against the cognitive mess and part-time dictator Joe Biden, is laying out his vision for a second term, Independent Sentinel reports.
First on his list is a plan to reissue a 2020 executive order “restoring the president’s authority to remove rogue bureaucrats” while promising to “wield that power very aggressively.”
Second, the former president said he “will clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus,” noting there “are plenty of them.”
“The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled so that faceless bureaucrats will never again be able to target and persecute conservatives, Christians, or the left’s political enemies, which they’re doing now at a level that nobody can believe even possible.”
Next, Trump promises to “totally reform FISA courts,” calling them “so corrupt that judges seemingly do not care when they are lied to in warrant applications.”
“So many judges have seen so many applications that they know were wrong, or at least they must have known. They do nothing about it,” the former president said.
FISA courts have received bipartisan criticism, accused of rarely refusing requests and “rubber stamping” surveillance on U.S. citizens.
Next in line is something that is a bit concerning and “big brother-ish,” depending on what the charge is. That is a “truth and reconciliation Commission,” which Trump says is designed “ to expose the hoaxes and abuses of power that have been tearing our country apart.”
This rings along the lines of similar proposals from the political left, and one can imagine that depending on who is on this commission, it could easily backfire. But the idea is heading in the right direction.
The commission would be designed “to declassify and publish all documents on deep state spying, censorship, and corruption, and there are plenty of them.” All of those are worthy goals.
Fifth, Trump promises to “launch a major crackdown on government leakers who collude with the fake news to deliberately weave false narratives to subvert our government and our democracy. When possible, we will press criminal charges.” Let’s call this the “Vindmann rule.”
“Sixth, we will make every inspector general’s office independent and physically separated from the departments they oversee so they do not become the protectors of the deep state.”
Next, Trump promised to have Congress “establish an independent auditing system to continually monitor our intelligence agencies to ensure they are not spying on our citizens or running disinformation campaigns against the American people or that they are not spying on someone’s campaign like they spied on my campaign.”
Trump believes dismantling the deep state includes moving some parts of the federal government “outside the Washington swamp,” noting he had moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado. He said such a move could relocate up to 100,000 government positions from Washington, D.C., “to places filled with patriots who love America, and they really do love America.”
Ninth, the former president said he would work to “ban federal bureaucrats from taking jobs at the companies they deal with and that they regulate.”
“So, they deal with these companies, and they regulate these companies, and then they want to take jobs from these companies. It doesn’t work that way. Such a public display cannot go on, and it’s taking place all the time, like with big pharma.”
President Trump said he would push for a constitutional amendment to place term limits on members of Congress, which would likely be very popular with most Americans. Congress was never intended to be a career, and people like Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), and numerous others have spent their entire lives there. There is also a level of bipartisan support for such an amendment.
“This is how I will shatter the deep state and restore government that is controlled by the people and for the people,” Trump said.
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2023-12-10T21:27-0500 | Comment by: John
I would add one more to make it 11 point and that is to remove us from the UN and kick them out of the country which will in turn stop the aerosolizing of our skies with deadly toxins. The UN is the deep states oligarchical head quarters, so everything else may be in vain if we don't cut the head of the snake off.