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Deep State Accountability & Silly Sunshine State Polls – Top 3 Takeaways

Deep State Accountability & Silly Sunshine State Polls – Top 3 Takeaways July 25th, 2025 

Takeaway #1: How Accountability Happens 

It was just over two years ago, July 19th, 2023, when President Trump declared war on “the deep state”. In a video post that day President Trump said this: This is the final battle, with you at my side we will demolish the deep state, we will expel the war mongers from our government, we’ll drive out the globalists, we’ll cast out the communists, Marxists and fascists, we’ll throw out the sick political class that hates our country, we will route the fake news media, we will liberate America from these villains once and for all. Now at the time the video was released most of his supporters and for that matter most of his opponents likely viewed that video as little more than red meat political messaging during the early months of the Republican primary for president. If you’ve been paying attention to the first six months of President Trump’s second term however, you’ll recognize it as something more. Not only has Trump been delivering on every single promise he made during the presidential campaign... He walked into the office with the plans in hand to make it all happen. Trump spent his four years out of office working on the very plan he’s implemented during his first six months that have led to him having become the second most effective president (to FDR) at accomplishing one’s agenda at this stage of a presidency. It’s safe to assume that the day Trump put out the video declaring that he’d “demolish the deep state”, he’d actually finished putting together that plans to do it upon becoming president once again. So, about that. Yesterday I made the point that I don’t believe any Trump-Russia hoaxers will be held accountable under the law. There will be no convictions for the conspirators. If that was going to happen, it would have happened when John Durham brought multiple actors to trial in D.C. four years ago only for swampy D.C. juries to let them off the hook. Instead, accountability is and has been happening through President Trump’s systematic shrinking of the federal government and decentralization of it from Washington D.C. So, about that... There are now over 275,000 federal government employees who’ve been let go since the onset of Trump 2.0. By the way, that number includes an additional 14,400 RIFs that have happened just within the past week! 

Takeaway #2: That’s a massive draining of swamp creatures!   

In real time, two federal agencies, HUD and the USDA, are being moved out of Washington, D.C. permanently. 793 leases on federal government buildings have been brought to an end with another 320 federal offices buildings owned by the federal government that are being put up for sale. There was regular focus on this stuff when Elon Musk and Big Balls & co. were DOGEing. But the bottom line is that the Deep State is being dissolved daily. Something that’s often overlooked but that has played a huge role in overall accountability has been Trump’s ability to continue to rack up wins before the Supreme Court. If you’re keeping score (and I am), President Trump has had Supreme Court decisions issued in his second term thus far and he’s winning, bigly. The Trump administration’s scorecard before the high court in his 2nd term is 19-2. As in 19 decisions he’s won compared to only two, he’s gone on to lose. Last week the major decision team Trump won, was the Department of Education case that opened the floodgates for federal government RIFs across all departments. This week the decision was the big win for his administration's ability to remove three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission – his second related win of this administration. What is often missed is that with each one of these wins there’s more to the story. The Supreme Court has effectively cleared the path for Trump to reshape the federal workforce as he sees fit and to select the leadership as he sees fit. This is why, for example, President Trump personally visited the Federal Reserve yesterday – which not coincidently meets next week to decide interest rate policy and also not coincidentally after this week’s Supreme Court ruling for the second time allowed Trump to fire board members of an independent federal agency. President Trump is making his presence felt in all aspects of all federal agencies. The federal workforce is now 12.5% smaller than it was on January 20th. The focus has been on restoring accountability to the agencies, and that’s ultimately what accountability looks like. It won’t come in the form of perp walks for people like Susan Rice or Barack Obama for what happened in 2016. It has come in the form of dismantling the deep state operation they put into place. And you better believe that this is a fight that Trump will stay engaged in until the end. 

Takeaway #3: Ignore the poll 

Watergate, The Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax, Clinton-Lewinsky. These are major political scandals that have taken place. Enron, Madoff, Lehman Brothers. These are major financial scandals that have taken place, they’re also the examples that came back when I searched for ”major scandals” yesterday. I’ll come back to why I searched for major scandals in a moment. It’s like a moth to a flame. Introduce a poll to a newsperson to many it’s an instant and easy news story. For that reason, when the University of North Florida produced a poll of Republican voters yesterday there were stories created about it just about everywhere across this state. But word to the wise. Ignore the poll. To begin with, the pollster, the University of North Florida, averages being off by over 4-points with the final polls entering Election Day. How relevant do you think anything they’re sampling in the middle of a non-election year actually is? What’s more is that brutally awful hot takes in the poll’s commentary from UNF political science professor Sean Freeder have been incorporated in much of the reporting. What do I mean? Quoting the poll’s release: Two thirds of Florida Republicans have not heard of the Hope Florida Foundation, closely linked to a recent major scandal for the DeSantis camp. While their lack of knowledge helps Casey DeSantis now, the Donalds campaign and others are sure to campaign on the scandal and, as Republican voters learn more, she’s likely to lose some support. A) Seriously? As in this guy let alone others take this guy seriously? B) Casey DeSantis hasn’t announced if she’s running for governor, Donald’s has been campaigning C) I feel sorry for his students D) I wonder if this guy has ever actually really known a DeSantis supporter? A $10 million settlement payment to the state redirected to Hope Florida and used for issue advocacy during last year’s election cycle is a “major scandal”? The fact that two-thirds of voters sampled had never heard of this, is evidence that there was no “major scandal”. But hey, apparently to this guy it belongs in the same breath as Watergate or perhaps Enron. Also, arguably the commentary attached to the polls sampling the issue of ending property taxes was worse. Here’s that quote from the pollster’s Public Opinion Research Lab Director: Floridians really don’t like paying taxes, especially the ideological right, and even with the knowledge that property taxes fund local schools and police, a solid majority of these folks would still get rid of them. Umm, so your implication is what? That without property taxes there’s no education and no police? How about you listen to my conversation with Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia to hear how that really would go. Ignore the poll, it’s silly season and also the commentary associated with it isn’t to be taken seriously.  


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