President Trump’s allegations that former President Barack Obama tapped his phone and his assertions that the bureaucracy is leaking secrets to discredit him are the latest signs of a White House preoccupation with a “deep state” working to thwart the Trump presidency. “Nixon shared a similar kind of distrust of the government and felt the government was out to get him at points,” says political scientist Peter Feaver, a former national security aide to President George W. Bush. “President Trump’s view seems to be more on the Nixon part of the spectrum. …”
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