‘Holy [bleep], dude. It doesn’t exist. It might exist. OK it exists, but it’s a good thing!’
By Joe Kovacs
George Stephanopoulos
Millions of Americans have heard the term “Deep State,” and have been led by some in the mainstream news media to believe it’s just a conspiracy theory, referring to people deep in the government who really run the show.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of “The View,” ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos not only proclaimed the actual existence of the Deep State, he said it’s “packed with patriots.”
The host of “Good Morning America” and “This Week” was promoting his new book, “The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis,” which explores how crises among several presidential administrations were dealt with in the White House Situation Room.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “Deep State” as “an alleged secret network of especially nonelected government officials and sometimes private entities (as in the financial services and defense industries) operating extralegally to influence and enact government policy.”
On “The View,” Stephanopoulos said: “Some people like to call those people the Deep State. Well, the big thing I learned doing this book is that the Deep State is packed with patriots, people who go to work every single day and are on the front lines of the most intense crises the country faces and do it to serve their country and to serve the presidency, not the president. They don’t care about political parties. They’re there to serve the presidency and the institution.”