So this will be the excuse when the Barr indictments are handed down for the real deep state?
Trumps deep state going after the real deep state?
lay off the crack
Once again, Trump is found to be doing what he accuses others of doing. Having a "shadow foreign policy" with very different aims and objectives for what passes for the publically stated foreign policy of the Trump administration, is the essence of a "deep state". While publically appearing to support the Ukraine, the President was working to undermine the elected government of the Ukraine, to the benefit of Russia.
Trump is focused on lifting sanctions against Russia. Congress and the Senate, in a rare show of bi-partisan unity, almost unanimously approved a law which bars Trump from lifting Russian sanctions without the consent of Congress. Trump has announced sanctions against Russia for the poisoning of the former agent in Great Britain, but he never imposed them. He has also failed to impose the second round of sanctions in the Magnitsky matter, although he did announced those as well.
In order to lift the sanctions, Trump has to prove the Russians didn't interfere in the 2016 election, thus his desperation to prove that the Russia Investigation is a "hoax". And then there's the sanctions related to Russia's annexation of the Crimea and it's war with the Ukraine. This is why Trump is pushing for a deal between Zelensky and Russia.
This is insanity, and it utterly undermines the rule of law in the US.