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NY Times: Trump’s War on the ‘Deep State’ Turns Against Him - The impeachment inquiry is in some ways the culmination of a battle between the president and the government institutions he distrusted and disparaged. By Peter Baker, Lara Jakes, Julian E. Barnes, Sharon LaFraniere and Edward Wong

But over the last three weeks, the deep state has emerged from the shadows in the form of real live government officials, past and present, who have defied a White House attempt to block cooperation with House impeachment investigators and provided evidence that largely backs up the still-anonymous whistle-blower.