My awareness of the 'deep state' goes back to 1983, when I attended a lecture by this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S...l_(CIA_officer)
My latest read was Snowden's autobiography.
When I say Trump is a puppet / figurehead of unseen forces, I don't mean to exonerate the man. I'm not fear mongering, just telling what I think is going to happen. It all makes sense to me, the withdrawal of US troops from Syria, the release of ISIS terrorists. The whole War On Terror is a fabrication. The CIA made Bin Laden what he was. Trump's in office, apparently to me, because they wanted or felt they needed a clown.