Long ago, after extensive research, I concluded government is organized crime. Not just the above board, commonly accepted theft like the income tax, central banking, crony capitalism, bailouts etc., but sub rosa stuff that took much digging to uncover. I would recommend The Devil's Chessboard, a biography of Allen Dulles, as a good primer to the Deep State and its many crimes. I would also recommend The CIA as Organized Crime, by Douglas Valentine, for extensive information on Operation Phoenix in Vietnam and as the prototype for CIA operations--repression and drug dealing--in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.

For one of the earliest, and still one of the best, exposures of the Warren Commission fraud, check out Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, in which he uses the Warren Report itself to discredit the commission. More speculative is The Man Who Killed Kennedy, by Roger Stone, but it also makes mincemeat of the government's story. Once mincemeat is made, one must confront the terrible probabilities that the assassination was a conspiracy and probably a coup.

More currently, the Clintons are clearly up to their eyeballs in illicit and illegal garbage, and have been since their Arkansas days. For a good book on that, see Ron Brown's Body, by Jack Cashill. Check the index for the name Tom Parsons; he's a close friend of my brother's and he was in fact railroaded in the way the book says he was. The book raises the strong possibility that Ron Brown and the other people in the plane were murdered to stop Ron Brown from exposing the Clinton's many illegal fundraising schemes.

What I'm saying is that the federal government has been deeply corrupt for a long time. I can give you much more material if you'd like, but what I've mentioned would constitute a good start. Does President Trump have specific knowledge of crimes? Undoubtedly some of them, and vigorous investigation on a variety of fronts will yield abundant evidence that he can use both as leverage and as a way to get rid of people intent on discrediting him and making it impossible for him to implement any part of his agenda. This is a big part of contemporary politics--get as much incriminating information as you can on both your friends and enemies. People tend to respond more agreeably to threats of prison and ruination than they do to logical argument. As I said in my article, President Trump has vast powers to investigate and prosecute, and I'm fairly certain he will use them to his full advantage. If he doesn't and leaves the corrupt elements of the Deep State in place, they will destroy his presidency, as they are clearly trying to do now.