Trump’s War on the Deep State Escalates, in D.C. and Caracas, by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream, October 22, 2025

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

I’ve been reporting here regularly on the two-front battle that President Donald Trump and his team are waging against America’s most deadly enemy. No it’s not some goatherds half a world away, or a declining, defensive Russia. It’s slick-looking men with impressive degrees and hefty resumes, whose contacts extend to both parties, who look at their fellow Americans with the steely eyes of secret policemen in East Berlin or Bucharest.

They’re the kind of men who tried to overthrow President Trump in 2017 with the Russia collusion hoax, who attempted to jail Michael Flynn and his family for made-up crimes, who waved off Hunter Biden’s laptop as “Russian disinformation” on the eve of an election — then pressured social media to censor the ugly truth. They hunted peaceful January 6 protestors and got them locked in solitary confinement for crimes like “trespassing.” They stormed pro-lifers’ homes at dawn with rifles pointed at them and their children. …