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This post brought to you as a result of John Bolton, President Trump's newest choice for his National Security Advisor. https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/politics/john-bolton-fox-news-national-security-adviser-announcement/index.html

Deep State
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/deep_state

NOUN
A body of people, typically influential members of government agencies or the military, believed to be involved in the secret manipulation or control of government policy.

used in a sentence

‘the deep state and its policy of allowing extremist ideologies to flourish may be the actual issues of concern’
‘Should he win the election, the apparatus of the deep state will constrict him and not be cooperative.’
‘The military commanders of the Deep State do not take up the plow once they lay down the sword.’
‘Knowledge as power means understanding how these things work relative to the deep state.’
‘One would like to believe that the Deep State top dogs actually have some sort of "vision" going for them.’

Origin
1990s: probably a translation of Turkish derin devlet (the term was first used with reference to Turkey).

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/01/eric-trump-ellen-degeneres-deep-state-response

https://daily.jstor.org/the-unacknowledged-origins-of-the-deep-state/

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