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President-elect Donald Trump has unveiled his plan to dismantle what he calls the ‘Deep State,’ and it is impressive.
The video was originally issued in March 2023, but it went viral again after his victory by conservative commentator Colin Rugg.
“Here’s my plan to dismantle the deep state and reclaim our democracy from Washington corruption once and for all. First, I will immediately reissue my 2020 executive order restoring the president’s authority to remove rogue bureaucrats, and I will wield that power very aggressively,” he said in the video.
“Clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus,” the president-elect said.
“Totally reform FISA courts which are so corrupt that the judges seemingly do not care when they’re lied to in warrant applications,” he said in his video.
“Expose the hoaxes and abuses of power that have been tearing our country apart,” he said.
“Launch a major crackdown on government leakers who collude with the fake news to deliberately we false narratives and to subvert our government and our democracy,” the man who is no president-elect said.
“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,” he said.
“Ask Congress to 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,” the Republican said.
“Continue the effort launched by the Trump administration to move parts of the sprawling federal bureaucracy to new locations outside the Washington Swamp,” he said.
“Work to ban federal bureaucrats from taking jobs at the companies they deal with and that they regulate,” the president-elect said.
“Push a constitutional amendment to oppose term limits on members of Congress,” he said.
Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the Deep State.
1. “Immediately reissue my 2020 executive order, restoring the President’s authority to remove rogue bureaucrats.”
2. “Clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus.”
3. “Totally reform… pic.twitter.com/Xhg297uWCe
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 8, 2024
Republicans did something for this election that they avoided in the previous one, and it appears to have been a deciding factor in creating not only a red wave but also a red tsunami.
Party leaders, including then-President Donald Trump, spoke against early voting in the 2020 election, but in 2024, they encouraged it, and it paid massive dividends.
The decision to encourage early voting assisted the GOP in securing low-propensity voters and giving President-elect Trump a historic victory that made him only the second person in history to be elected to two non-consecutive terms as President of the United States, the other being Grover Cleveland, who served from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.
Pollster Scott Rasmussen appeared on the “John Solomon Reports” podcast on Wednesday, where he explained how the new strategy assisted Republicans in a historic victory, Just The News reported.
“I heard from a lot of Republicans who said, you know, ‘I don’t like early voting, I don’t think we should do this, but we have to win if we want to change the rules.’ So, you know, I don’t think this is an issue that’s going to go away, but it has changed the game,” he said.
“This idea of early voting is a relatively new phenomenon,” the pollster said. “When I started polling, it just didn’t exist except for absentee ballots. And in 2020, because of the pandemic, it took on a new form in ways that we never could have imagined just a couple of decades back.”
