Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump suggested in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Monday night that the “deep state” is responsible for the tribulations former President Trump has faced – from the hacking of his campaign even the technical glitches that delayed the start of his interview with Elon Musk on Monday.
“Yes, Sean, I think it’s pretty obvious at this point. There are a lot of people out there and there is a huge effort, of course, to keep Donald Trump out of the White House”, said the former president’s daughter-in-law in the interview.
“These people are terrified. This is the deep state. This is a swamp in Washington, DC. These are the people who are our adversaries in many cases, and they know that the fun is over, the game is over, when Donald J. Trump returns to the White House. And they are petrified by it,” she continued.
Lara Trump has not offered any direct evidence of her accusations of “deep state” involvement in any of the attacks. The deep state generally refers to people working within the government and has been used by the former president and his allies in the past as an enemy to prop up his supporters.
Iran appears to be the prime suspect in the campaign hack, according to a Microsoft report citing an Iranian-backed group and a phishing email, although Tehran has denied the allegations. The FBI announced it was investigating Monday night.
Donald Trump’s interview with Musk on Monday night began more than 40 minutes late after technical glitches prevented some people from joining — reminiscent of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) troubled presidential campaign launch , on the social platform X’s Spaces.
It’s unclear what caused the technical glitches in Musk’s interview on Monday.
Lara Trump, in making her deep state accusation, was responding to Hannity’s suggestion that the same people were behind the campaign hack and the technical difficulties of the X interview.
“We’re not dealing with amateurs here,” Hannity said. “Now they went hard on Elon Musk tonight and limited the number of people who could hear his father-in-law earlier tonight.”
Musk attributed the problem to what he called a “massive DDOS,” or denial of service attack, targeting the platform.
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