Ronny Jackson: “The deep state's real. There are people out there that were…”

“I'm excited that the president is having his team look into this and we're figuring out what's really going on here. You know, I've known for years. I've even been somewhat of a victim of it. But The deep state's real. There are people out there that were holdovers from the last administration who were political appointees, people that were career employees that had an agenda. And their agenda was absolutely to bring the president down even before he was sworn in. And they didn't have any problems whatsoever using the affliction authority and the power that they had in their individual offices to make that happen.” (00:38–00:49)

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