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Russell Vought: “I want to be the person that crushes the deep state.”

Featuring: Russell Vought, Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget | National

Russell Vought: The Shadow President

Published October 17, 2025 | Video Starts at 02:18

I think you have to rehabilitate Christian nationalism. You have the largest deportation in history. Block funding for Planned Parenthood. I want to be the person that crushes the deep state. Yeah, I called trauma within the bureaucracies. The bureaucracies hate the American people. He really has a vision to change the direction of American history. (02:18–02:21)

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Asserts intention to dismantle or significantly reduce the influence of the deep state.

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Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 01:03-01:09
“America has experienced nothing short of a quiet revolution.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 01:35-01:40
“We know the CRT and the transgender sewage that's being pumped into our schools and institutions.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 01:39-01:45
“A border invasion furthering, quite frankly, a reverse colonization.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 01:45-01:49
“You have the largest deportation in history.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 02:13-02:16
“Block funding for Planned Parenthood.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 02:15-02:19
“The bureaucracies hate the American people.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 02:22-02:26
“After 12 years on Capitol Hill, I was often frustrated by why more members of Congress simply didn't do the right thing.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 03:55-04:03
“Most of them spend too much time listening to the loud vocal groups in their district clamoring for more.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 04:03-04:10
“Never wanted to leave the fight and really until Donald Trump becomes elected, and then you have an opportunity for paradigm shifting work.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 05:10-05:18
“And we cut the money off and it was like all hell broke loose within the bureaucracy.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 06:57-07:03
“The FBI has been weaponized.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 08:46-08:49
“Critical race theory is State sanctioned racism.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 08:48-08:52
“Pushing gender affirming care is chemical castration.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 08:52-08:56
“We have become too secular, not just overall in the country, but on the right.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 09:23-09:29
“Our elites have lost the consensus that we're a Judeo Christian being.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 09:28-09:33
“We are Christians who are nationalists.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 10:10-10:13
“We do not want that group of refuge coming from that country that is dominated by Sharia law.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 10:23-10:29
“The President ran on the notion that the Impoundment Control act is unconstitutional. I agree with that.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 14:15-14:22
“I don't think anyone should be afraid of a government shutdown.”
Russell Vought: The Shadow President | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 16:18-16:22