Clearly, now-Secretary of State Pompeo may not call it a Deep State, but he still acknowledges that there is widespread "malfeasance" across federal agencies. And it was off-the-cuff because he was asked not knowing the question in advance, and answered in his opinion, not from a prepared statement.
He also narrows his comments to deny the existence of a Deep State in the department he heads. I think his comments are to downplay the obvious, in an attempt to not undermine public trust, despite the clear widespread "malfeasance".
A review of the Deep State conspirators:
Bill Clinton and AG Loretta Lynch. Acting AG Sally Yates. DIA director James Clapper. CIA director John Brennan (a onetime communist). DOJ assistant attorney general Rod Rosenstein (and his wife who ran for public office and received over $500,000 from Terry MacAuliffe, a longtime Clinton operative. FBI director James Comey, assistant director Andrew McCabe, and Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bruce Ohr in DOJ (plus Ohr's wife who works for Fusion GPS and piplined their disinformation into the FBI investigation), James Rybacki, and James Baker. OF THOSE THAT ARE KNOWN.
At the very least, that includes the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th highest positions in the FBI. Plus Obama's national security advisor Susan Rice, and ambassador Samantha Powers, who "unmasked" Trump staffers illegally right before the election to embarrass Trump and influence the election. Then there's Rudolf Contreras, the judge who oversaw the manufactured conviction of Michael Flynn on manufactured perjury, and then mysteriously recused himself AFTER Flynn's conviction. But despite this oddness, the conviction still stands. Contreras also is a FISA court judge who approved at least one of the four FISA warrants to spy on Carter Page, Flynn, and other Trump campaign/administration officials. And is discussed in texts of Strzok and Page, as having a secret ex parte meeting hidden inside a dinner party to advance their secret agenda.
Then there's Robert Mueller, who applied to replace Comey as FBI director but was declined by Trump, who then was appointed by Rosenstein hours later to lead the special investigation of Trump! Clear conflict of interest.
Mueller then appointed 17 lawyers to his special investigation 13 of whom are Democrats, 0 of whom are Republicans, 11 of whom donated to the campaigns of Obama, Hillary and the DNC, most in the hundreds and thousands of dollars, clearly partisanly invested in the Hillary Clinton and Obama, and invested against Trump. On top of that some investigators actually worked for the Clinton Foundation, MORE conflict of interest.
Now... are we seriously supposed to not believe there is a Deep State working against Donald Trump, and deceitfully exonerating Hillary Clinton and her staffers? That's turning a blind eye to a remarkable amount of evidence.
And that's not even getting into the State Department and its resistance to Trump's leadership. One official I saw interviewed described the State Department as a "lost cause", because it is so infiltrated with Obama/Hillary loyalists.
You can parse words in Clintonian evasion of the truth, but a rose by any other name is still a widespread conspiracy for Hillary/Obama and against Trump. High-level federal bureaucrats, undermining the will of the people and their elected president by deceit and abuse of federal power. Just because the election didn't go the way they wanted it to.
Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.
EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.
