Deep State to Trump: ‘We Told You So’

Vanity Fair: “As the post-summit fallout continues, however, these foot soldiers of the deep state are coming to a chilling realization: nobody has any control over Trump—including Trump himself. For the legion of national-security, diplomatic, and military officials trying to smile while white-knuckling through the Trump presidency, Helsinki was a wake-up call. As a current administration official explained, Trump seems to believe that he alone can sit down with dictators and strongmen like Putin and Kim Jong Un to remake the world order—and experts and advisers will only slow him down.”

Said one administration official: “I don’t know anyone who thought the summit was a good idea ahead of time. There is a reason why we tried to slow-roll/kill this idea… The president might think it’s us being ‘deep-staters,’ but the reality is we were trying to protect him. It was a bad idea from all sides: policy and politics.”