{"id":2501993,"date":"2025-10-22T16:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-who-really-runs-washington\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:49:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:49:52","slug":"op-ed-who-really-runs-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-who-really-runs-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: Who Really Runs Washington?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fop-ed-who-really-runs-washington%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2501993&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article argues that the wave of declassifications initiated by President Trump is not chaotic but rather a dismantling of the &#8220;deep state,&#8221; exposing longstanding government corruption and misconduct. It challenges the mainstream narrative that Trump&#8217;s actions threaten democracy, rather portraying them as revealing decades of a secretive bureaucracy manipulating federal power for self-preservation. Key highlights include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whistleblowers-fbi-weaponization-is-real-and-heres-proof\/\" title=\"Whistleblowers: ... Weaponization Is Real, And Here&#039;s Proof\">revoked security clearances<\/a> for intelligence officials involved in election interference, the release of hidden JFK assassination documents, and revelations about how intelligence was manipulated during the Obama governance to undermine Trump and protect hunter Biden.additionally, the article discusses indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and the uncovering of an FBI surveillance operation, &#8220;Arctic Frost,&#8221; that spied on Republican lawmakers and organizations. Ultimately, the piece asserts that these disclosures reveal systemic abuses of power by a permanent government, signaling the &#8220;death rattle&#8221; of the deep state and a long-overdue reckoning rather than the collapse of democracy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Declassifications under President Trump aren&rsquo;t chaos &mdash; they&rsquo;re the deep state&rsquo;s demolition, paving the way for a truth movement that&rsquo;s finally seeing daylight after years in the shadows.<\/p>\n<p>The establishment narrative is set: American democracy teeters on authoritarianism&rsquo;s edge, and a vindictive president weaponizes law enforcement against his enemies.<\/p>\n<p>But peel back the panic, and this isn&rsquo;t apocalypse &mdash; it&rsquo;s archaeology.<br \/> President Trump&rsquo;s declassification torrent since Jan. 20, 2025, is systematically unearthing a self-preserving bureaucracy that weaponized federal power for decades. The turmoil gripping Washington? That&rsquo;s the deep state&rsquo;s foundations cracking under sunlight &mdash; a great awakening where yesterday&rsquo;s &ldquo;conspiracy theories&rdquo; become today&rsquo;s documented facts.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump signed an executive order revoking security clearances for 51 former intelligence officials who signed the October 2020 letter branding Hunter Biden&rsquo;s laptop &ldquo;Russian disinformation.&rdquo; These weren&rsquo;t junior analysts &mdash; these were the intelligence community&rsquo;s elite lending credentials to election interference while maintaining taxpayer-funded access to America&rsquo;s secrets.<\/p>\n<p>By Jan. 23, another <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >order demanded full declassification plans<\/a> for the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassination files. What emerged shocked even skeptics: The FBI had hidden 2,182 JFK records from the 1992 Assassination Records Review Board &mdash; documents that should have been released decades ago, buried through administrative sleight-of-hand.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> console.log(\"A\/B Test Video Player\"); \/\/ Helper function to set a cookie function setVideoCookie(name, value, days) {     var expires=\"\";     if (days) {         var date=new Date();         date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days*24*60*60*1000));         expires=\"; expires=\" + date.toUTCString();     }     document.cookie=name + \"=\" + (value || \"\")  + expires + \"; path=\/\"; }  \/\/ Helper function to get a cookie function getVideoCookie(name) {     var nameEQ=name + \"=\";     var ca=document.cookie.split(';');     for(var i=0; i <ca.length; i++) {         var c=ca[i];         while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c=c.substring(1,c.length);         if (c.indexOf(nameEQ)==0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);     }     return null; }  \/\/ Function to determine or retrieve the split test group function assignSplitTestGroup() {     var group=getVideoCookie('splitTestGroup');     if (group===null) {         var rand=Math.random();         if (rand <1\/3) {             group='A';         } else if (rand <2\/3) {             group='B';         } else {             group='C';         }         setVideoCookie('splitTestGroup', group, 1); \/\/ Sets a cookie for 1 day     }     return group; }  \/\/ aditude function aditudePlayer() {     playerBottom=5;     if (window.innerWidth <=768) {         playerBottom=100;     }     console.log(\"Loading Aditude video player\");     window.tude=window.tude || { cmd: [] };     window.tude.cmd.push(function() {         tude.requestOutstreamAd({             divId: \"videoPlayer\",             baseDivId: \"pb-slot-outstream\",             playerOptions: {                 dock: true,                 dockedPosition: \"bottom-right\",                 dockedOffset: {                     bottom: playerBottom,                     right: 5,                 },             }         });     }); }  \/\/ anyclip function anyclipPlayer() {     document.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() {         function loadAnyclip() {             const container=document.getElementById(\"videoPlayer\");             if (!container) return;              const script=document.createElement(\"script\");             script.src=\"https:\/\/player.anyclip.com\/anyclip-widget\/lre-widget\/prod\/v1\/src\/lre.js\";             script.setAttribute(\"pubname\", \"westernjournalcom\");             script.setAttribute(\"widgetname\", \"001w000001jULVcAAO_M12924\");              \/\/ append inside the container so player shows in correct spot             container.appendChild(script);         }         function findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) {             const targetElement=document.querySelector(selector);             if (!targetElement) {                 console.warn(\"Target element not found.\");                 return null;             }              \/\/ Get all \n\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document             let paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));              \/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element             let targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);              if (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) {                 console.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\");                 return null;             }              return paragraphs[targetIndex - x];         }          \/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver         function observeElement(element) {             if (!element) return;              const observer=new IntersectionObserver(                 (entries)=> {                     entries.forEach(entry=> {                         if (entry.isIntersecting) {                             console.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim());                             loadAnyclip();                             observer.disconnect();                         }                     });                 },                 { threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed             );              observer.observe(element);         }          \/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #videoPlayer and observe it         let paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#videoPlayer\", 2);         observeElement(paragraphToObserve);     }); }  \/\/ stn function stnPlayer() {     \/\/ may want to pass in         document.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() {         function loadScript(src) {             const script=document.createElement(\"script\");             script.src=src;             script.async=true;             document.body.appendChild(script);         }         function findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) {             const targetElement=document.querySelector(selector);             if (!targetElement) {                 console.warn(\"Target element not found.\");                 return null;             }              \/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document             let paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));              \/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element             let targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);              if (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) {                 console.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\");                 return null;             }              return paragraphs[targetIndex - x];         }          \/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver         function observeElement(element) {             if (!element) return;              const observer=new IntersectionObserver(                 (entries)=> {                     entries.forEach(entry=> {                         if (entry.isIntersecting) {                             console.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim());                             loadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\");                             observer.disconnect();                         }                     });                 },                 { threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed             );              observer.observe(element);         }          \/\/ Add custom styles for STN player         const style=document.createElement('style');         style.textContent=`         #videoPlayer {             min-height: 460px;             margin-bottom: 10px;         }         @media only screen and (max-width: 780px) {             #videoPlayer {                 min-height: 200px;             }         }         `;         document.head.appendChild(style);          \/\/ Add needed div for STN player         const stnDiv=document.createElement(\"div\");         \/\/ add data-stn-player attribute         stnDiv.setAttribute(\"data-stn-player\", \"s28Az7AY\");         document.getElementById(\"videoPlayer\").appendChild(stnDiv);           \/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #videoPlayer and observe it         let paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#videoPlayer\", 2);         observeElement(paragraphToObserve);     }); }  \/\/ Assign user to a group window.adUserGroup=assignSplitTestGroup(); let isSubbed=getCookie( 'ff_subbed' );  \/\/ Example usage if (isSubbed) {     console.log('User is subscribed, not running a player'); } else if (window.adUserGroup==='A') {     console.log('Running Aditude player for group A');     aditudePlayer(); } else if (window.adUserGroup==='B') {     console.log('Running Anyclip player for group B');     anyclipPlayer(); } else {     console.log('Running STN player for group C');     stnPlayer(); } <\/script> <\/p>\n<p>When Tulsi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/politicians-celebrities-200000-fans-gather-honor-charlie-kirk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gabbard<\/a> was confirmed as Director of National Intelligence on Feb. 12, the intelligence community&rsquo;s old guard knew their protection racket faced existential threat. By Aug. 19, Gabbard had revoked security clearances for 37 current and former officials, including senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/newly-revealed-records-show-biden-quashed-cia-report-links-corrupt-ukrainian-businesses\/?ff_source=usaheadlinenews.com\/survey-finds-just-11-have-confidence-in-presidency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CIA<\/a> Russia analysts who&rsquo;d crafted the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that launched years of Trump-Russia investigations.<\/p>\n<p>But her most devastating move came with declassifying the House Intelligence Committee&rsquo;s earlier assessments of that 2017 Russia report. The documents revealed what whistleblowers claimed for years: Senior Obama-era officials like James Clapper privately dismissed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gabbard-declassifies-eerie--exchange-steele-dossier-foia-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steele<\/a> dossier as unreliable garbage &mdash; then shoehorned it into the Intelligence Community Assessment anyway, explicitly to cripple President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-gets-last-laugh-mar-lago-docs-loads-onto-af1-special-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> incoming presidency.<\/p>\n<p>CIA Director John Ratcliffe delivered his own bombshell in October 2025. An eight-page intelligence report from 2015 detailed Ukrainian officials&rsquo; frustration with American &ldquo;double-standards&rdquo; &mdash; specifically, how the Obama administration lectured Kiev about corruption while the vice president&rsquo;s son collected board fees from Burisma Holdings, a company Ukrainian prosecutors considered corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>The report met every internal threshold for distribution to policymakers. It never reached them. Biden&rsquo;s vice presidential office blocked dissemination through a rare NSA channel &mdash; documented in a Feb. 10, 2016,  where a DNI official wrote the VP &ldquo;would strongly prefer the report not\/not [sic] be disseminated.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&rsquo;t protecting sources and methods. It was protecting Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 25, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-men-indicted-for-hate-crimes-in-death-of-ahmaud-arbery\/\" title=\"Three Men Indicted For Hate Crimes In Death Of Ahmaud Arbery\">federal grand jury indicted<\/a> former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gen-flynn-caught-one-important-details-newly-found-fbi-burn-bags-hit-comey-fingerprints\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI<\/a> Director James Comey on charges of obstruction of a congressional proceeding and making false statements &mdash; both felonies carrying up to five years in prison. The charges stem from Comey&rsquo;s Sept. 30, 2020, testimony where he denied authorizing FBI officials to serve as anonymous sources for media leaks about the Russia investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The week leading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/legal-expert-lays-damning-details-john-bolton-indictment-gets-people-killed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indictment<\/a> exposed the rot. U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert was forced out after refusing White House pressure. Days later, Lindsey Halligan &mdash; President Trump&rsquo;s former personal attorney with zero prosecutorial experience &mdash; was installed as interim U.S. Attorney. With the statute of limitations set to expire, Halligan stood alone before a grand jury. Career prosecutors refused to participate &mdash; an unprecedented protest.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi was blunt: The Comey charges represented the &ldquo;opening shot&rdquo; in dismantling &ldquo;a decade of Democratic and deep-state antics.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When FBI Director Kash Patel uncovered &ldquo;Arctic Frost&rdquo; records in October 2025, the scale of political surveillance shocked even hardened cynics. Arctic Frost, opened in April 2022 as an &ldquo;election law&rdquo; investigation, metastasized into a sweeping dragnet targeting 92 Republican entities &mdash; the RNC, Republican Governors Association, Turning Point USA, individual senators, congressmen, donors, and activists.<\/p>\n<p>Most shocking: The FBI obtained call records for nine Republican lawmakers&rsquo; personal cell phones during Jan. 4-7, 2021 &mdash; the days surrounding the Capitol riot. The senators whose private communications were tracked included Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson, and Marsha Blackburn.<\/p>\n<p>These weren&rsquo;t peripheral figures under investigation. These were United States senators exercising constitutional duties to debate election certification &mdash; duties Democrats had exercised without FBI surveillance after 2000, 2004, and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>When Sen. Chuck Grassley demanded preservation of related cell phone location data, AT&amp;T&rsquo;s records were &ldquo;corrupted.&rdquo; The data &mdash; which could identify who was near the Capitol, who planted pipe bombs &mdash; vanished.<\/p>\n<p>Grassley&rsquo;s assessment: &ldquo;Arctic Frost and related weaponization by federal law enforcement under Biden was arguably worse than Watergate.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Step back from individual revelations and the pattern crystallizes: A permanent Washington establishment constructed a self-protecting system that placed institutional preservation above constitutional constraints.<\/p>\n<p>The Russia ICA: Intelligence officials knew the Steele dossier was garbage. They included it anyway to damage an incoming president.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukraine Block: Biden&rsquo;s office buried intelligence about his son&rsquo;s corrupt antics, prioritizing family protection over policy clarity.<\/p>\n<p>Arctic Frost: The FBI surveilled Republican lawmakers and organizations under law enforcement cover.<\/p>\n<p>The Comey Protection: An FBI Director who leaked classified information and lied to Congress faced no accountability &mdash; until the outsider returned to power.<\/p>\n<p>The establishment wants Americans to believe we&rsquo;re watching democracy die. It&rsquo;s a masquerade. Dress up corruption as expertise, weaponization as professionalism, and accountability as authoritarianism.<\/p>\n<p>But each declassified document reveals another lie. Each indictment asks why justice was delayed for so long. Each forced resignation exposes another compromised official.<\/p>\n<p>The sky isn&rsquo;t falling &mdash; the rotten ceiling is collapsing. The chaos isn&rsquo;t President Trump&rsquo;s tyranny &mdash; it&rsquo;s the deep state&rsquo;s death rattle.<br \/> For years, a permanent government believed itself untouchable. Now, finally, the reckoning. And for those who spent years telling truth-seekers to sit down and shut up &mdash; the answer is clear: We were right.<\/p>\n<p>The storm isn&rsquo;t coming. The storm is here.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! ( opts[inputs[i]]=document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"' + inputs[i] + '\"]' ).value ) ) { \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction .required-message' ).style.display='block'; \t\t\t\t\t\treturn; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction input[type=\"submit\"]' ).style.display='none'; \t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction .firefly-sc-submitting-img' ).src=firefly_loading_gif_url; \t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction .firefly-sc-submitting-img' ).style.display='inline-block';  \t\t\t\t\tconsole.log( 'ma subbing' );  \t\t\t\t\tif( firefly_post_id ) opts['post_id']=firefly_post_id;  \t\t\t\t\t\/* Send the data using post with element id name and name2*\/ \t\t\t\t\tvar posting=jQuery.post( firefly_ajax_url, opts );  \t\t\t\t\t\/* Alerts the results *\/ \t\t\t\t\tposting.done( function( response ) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif( response.success ) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log( response.data ); \t\t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction .firefly-sc-submitting-img' ).style.display='none'; \t\t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction .firefly-sc-confirm' ).style.display='block';  \t\t\t\t\t\t\tdataLayer.push( { 'event': 'submit-correction' } ); \t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> \t     \t\t\t\t\t\t     \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script>console.log(\"ad slot (BA1)\")<\/script> \t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declassifications under President Trump are not disorderly; rather, they represent the dismantling of the deep state, clearing the path for a truth movement emerging after years hidden from view. The mainstream story claims American democracy is on the brink of authoritarianism and that a vengeful president uses law enforcement as a weapon against opponents. However, beneath this alarm lies a process of uncovering long-hidden truths<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2501994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ben-Working-Feature-Image-2025-10-20T172919.842.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[15322,5894,4086],"class_list":["post-2501993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-op-ed","tag-politics","tag-washington"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ben-Working-Feature-Image-2025-10-20T172919.842.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502001,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501993\/revisions\/2502001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2501994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}