TREASON

Trump’s Deep State Ties to Russia

Turns out Trump was sorta right about a deep state

Charles Bastille
Politically Speaking
7 min readJan 29, 2023

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Image of Kiefer Sutherland on set of “24” by Andrew Malone, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Image of Trump by Boss Tweed, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Photosmashup by author, also under CC BY 2.0

This week we discovered that recently arrested former FBI special agent Charles McGonigal had specific ties to Trump’s association with Russia.

Yeppers, everyone. One of the fellas who was supposed to be investigating Russia’s ties to America’s favorite con man was allegedly working for the wrong team.

Do you remember the old TV show, “24”? Kiefer Sutherland plays a hero named Jack Bauer who never eats or takes a poop — not even a quick burger on the way to the torture chamber. He says “dammit” so often when things go wrong that there’s a YouTube compilation video:

Bauer’s daughter gets stalked by evil dudes more than the young women in the Halloween movies. Torture often occupies about a third of the show. But somehow, it’s all good fun.

I bring up that show because the nasty foreign villains in “24” who regularly take America to the precipice are only able to do so with the help of American moles…

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Charles Bastille
Politically Speaking

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