Did The "Deep State" Protect The Country From Trump?

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David Rothkopf explains how veteran U.S. government officials, sometimes scorned as the so-called Deep State, repeatedly intervened in the Trump administration to undermine presidential orders they thought were illegal, immoral, unworkable, or against America's interests. His book is American Resistance.

Justin Chang reviews the Martin McDonagh film The Banshees of Inisherin.

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