The Deep State: How an Army of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destroy the Trump Agenda
Written by Jason Chaffetz
Narrated by Jason Chaffetz
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About this audiobook
Former Congressman and current Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz explains how we ended up with a politicized federal bureaucracy that actively works to promote the Democrat party agenda and undermine Donald Trump.
The liberal media loves to characterize the Obama years as free of scandal. They pretend this is true because virtually every office in the executive branch worked to withhold evidence of wrongdoing, silence witness testimony, destroy federal records, classify embarrassing information, and retaliate against truth tellers. Yet these same tight-lipped lifers leaked like a sieve once President Trump was sworn in, freely promoting the illusion that everything he does is the new Watergate.
Sometimes even conservatives portray the Deep State as nothing more than dumb inefficient bureaucracy. In fact, it’s the opposite; the Deep State is intentional, unconstitutional, and organized.
In Deep State, Jason Chaffetz reveals an entrenched leadership within the civil service that resists exposure, accountability, and responsibility. At the highest levels, they fight back, outlast, and work the system for their own advantage. And they certainly don’t like disruptive forces such as Donald Trump.
As Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Chaffetz was the tip of the spear challenging the Deep State and trying to hold them accountable. He and his colleagues took on the powerful forces at the IRS, the EPA, the DOJ, the Department of State, and more. The deeper he dove in, the more shocking he found the brazen approach by the power brokers. The balance of power has shifted. The Deep State has gotten used to operating anonymously and without consequence. This is a problem bigger than we can even imagine and getting worse. Unless we do something dramatic to wrest back control, we risk losing the ability to successfully challenge wrongdoing by the most powerful bureaucracy in the world.
In Deep State, Chaffetz highlights the Deep State’s tactics, illuminates the problems, and offers a way to fight back and win. It is important to expose the stories, but if the American People are going to win, Congress is going to have to do things differently. This book helps the concerned citizen understand what must be done--so they can demand real change.
Jason Chaffetz
Jason Chaffetz is an American politician and Fox News contributor. He was elected as a U.S. Representative from Utah in 2008 after spending 16 years in the local business community. When he left Congress in 2017, he was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
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Reviews for The Deep State
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Utter lack of nuance in this book. The author describes every story in inflexible black and white terms, with tiresome self promotion sprinkled throughout.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Lunatic junk. Chaffetz is a moron, at best, but what does that matter in today’s world.
The only thing undermining American democracy is the ashes of the GOP running the country right now, their propaganda arm in the form of Fox News, and the craven politicians pandering to Trump in the name of retaining absolute power and crushing the little that remains of the little that remains of the American Dream.6 people found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I especially enjoyed this audiobook because it was in the author's voice. I hope if the author reads this post, that he will return to Congress. I think we can easily dismiss the 1-star reviews listed in this thread. From the context of them, it's very probable that these are the words of bitter left-wing political malcontents criticizing without having read Chaffetz's book, not the words of civilized objective dispassionate readers.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent read. Insightful. Jason Chaffetz & Trey Gowdy gave us hope. Unfortunately, Democrats care only about regaining power. The abuse of power by the Obama Administration was far reaching. The Use of the IRS to target conservatives, Fast & Furious cover up, Lying about what actually happened in Benghazi, and recent light shed on the FBI “Insurance Policy”. MSM did the dirty work of spin & cover up. It’s all unraveling now.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5He has no evidence to prove his thesis but still incites what sounds an awful lot like violence to support Trump which in turn earns the author money and power. He has a lot to gain by writing a sycophantic book that sucks up to those in power. The author bears a striking similarity to Machiavelli when he wrote The Prince to flatter and get on the good side of those in power.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very good book abouy deep state and obama administration !
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The book gives a in depth on the wide spread deep state with in the government. the cover given to Democrats or the Republican which ever group is in office for failed personnel and policy.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Dull, full of biases and sprinkled with lies. It's great if you want to stay within a bubble of paranoia and fantasy.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It’s is obviously a must read for those of us who see what is happening but don’t understand how it’s possible.