"He took bad advice from the wrong people." Advice and people I'd wager 80%+ of the regulars in this thread would have known was bad or wrong when it was first given. We wouldn't accept that excuse from our doctor, lawyer, mechanic, accountant, but for some reason we do with Trump? That alone shows he's unfit for the task at hand, which is ultimately my concern with him.
How else do you describe holding a Ball celebrating sodomites, while saying “We are fighting for the gay community, and we are fighting and fighting hard. With the help of many of the people here tonight in recent years, our movement has taken incredible strides, the strides you’ve made here is incredible.” It's not like the gays rented out Mara Lago and Trump happened to be there, he was the star of the show.
How is that not pandering?
The embrace of homosexuality is very much deep state. Destroying gender roles and the family unit is a necessary piece of the globalists' agenda, one they've spent 50+ years forcing on us. It's so successful now that some colleges and universities have a majority of students claiming to be so. America can't fall if the family is strong. And the family can't be strong if its leaders - including Trump - are behind or accepting of an agenda that does anything other than call homosexuality exactly what it is.
I didn't say Trump was deep state, though from how he operated, he might as well be. Almost as bad, he craves the deep state's acceptance and attention, clearly does not recognize them as the enemy they are, and when the fight was presented, he balked. Period. It's comical how some of you bend over backwards to excuse his deep-state appointments and promotions. Many of you are under his spell because of his tough-talking speeches, but when it came to the gov't shutdown over the wall, Trump folded. That the one-world totalitarian train rolled a little slower along the tracks than it is with Biden is no reason to back Trump.
Trump isn't attacked because he's anti-deep state. Trump is attacked because the globalists know that the more dangerous portion of the pro-America movement - patriotic gun enthusiasts, middle-aged hunters, bikers, ex-military, etc - is pro-Trump. They're attacking him to get to those who support him. Has nothing to do with Trump being the man the DS fears, it's about his followers. If it were just Trump they were concerned about, they'd Seth Rich him and be done with it.