JD Vance on Deep State: Leans believe

The claim: A hidden network of unelected officials secretly controls US government policy.

2025-02-02: “When a president is thwarted by unelected bureaucrats, that's oligarchy. President Trump refuses to bend the knee to that oligarchy.” source
2026-06-25: “If you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it’s not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions tried to do to Donald Trump in the first Trump administration,” source
2026-07-15: “Yeah, Mossad or CIA or some other deep state, whether in America or Israel or another country. He clearly had connections to the upper levels of American intelligence.” source
2026-07-15: “He clearly had connections to the highest levels of American intelligence," Vance told podcast host Joe Rogan. "He clearly had connections to the highest level of Israeli intelligence.” source