Hunter Biden and the ‘Deep State’

Supervisory IRS Special Agent Gary Shapley (L) and IRS Criminal Investigator Joseph Ziegler are sworn in during a House Oversight Committee hearing. (Drew Angerer via Getty Images)
Some in the government appeared to run interference on behalf of the president’s son. But others followed the law without fear or favor.
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For Donald Trump’s most dedicated fans, the latest revelations from the FBI and IRS about Hunter Biden suggest a darker force at work: the Deep State.
For this crowd, the deep state functions like an invisible force behind the curtain that controls our country on behalf of an oligarch class. As a concept, it’s been around for decades. Dot-connectors and…
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