Hillary Clinton's 2016 defeat never stopped her from trying to run the Democrat Party.
This week she got back in front of a microphone – and said more than she intended.
Then she used one word that every Trump voter has been waiting to hear a Democrat say out loud.
The Pivot Podcast Confession That Proves the Deep State Is Real
Hillary Clinton appeared on the Pivot podcast – a left-leaning tech show with millions of listeners – with a message for whoever wins the White House next.
"Get rid of all of the holdovers," she said.
She was talking about Trump's people – the political appointees and officials still working inside the federal government today.
The ones Clinton doesn't want anywhere near the next Democrat agenda.
Then she said something that stopped conservatives mid-scroll.
"Do not let anybody hang around in some small office somewhere who can literally subvert your program and you don't even know that person's there."
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That word – subvert – says everything.
Clinton didn't choose the word obstruct, or delay, or complicate.
Subvert: actively working to undermine a sitting president from inside the government he was elected to run.
Every conservative who watched Biden's bureaucracy slow-walk Trump's executive orders recognized the word immediately.
Clinton didn't stumble into it.
She used it because she understands the operation – her party engineered the modern version of it.
She's been watching it work for nearly a decade.
The Deep State by the Numbers: Biden Burrowed 107 Democrats Into the Federal Bureaucracy Before Trump Took Over
The Daily Signal reviewed Office of Personnel Management records and found the numbers Clinton didn't mention on that podcast.
Joe Biden's administration moved 107 political appointees into protected career civil service positions over four years.
Career civil service jobs aren't temporary – they come with legal protections designed to prevent the next president from simply removing those employees, and that's the whole point.
A Trump-appointed official can be walked out the door on inauguration day.
A career civil servant requires documented cause, an appeals process, and often years of litigation to remove.
Democrats didn't just fill jobs – they built a bureaucracy designed to outlast elections.
For comparison, Trump's first administration converted 68 political appointees into career positions.
Obama's administration converted 69 in just a five-year period – and the Government Accountability Office later found that a quarter of those conversions violated proper procedures.
Democrats have been running this play for three straight administrations.
Biden ran it harder than anyone.
These are not people who will accept the next election result and update their priorities accordingly.
They were placed specifically because they wouldn't.
Clinton spent her Pivot appearance warning Democrats about Trump's people doing exactly this to the next Democrat president, but she didn't mention the 107, the GAO report on Obama's improper conversions, or the fact that her party perfected the technique she's now calling a threat.
Every omission was intentional.
She's coaching them on how to reload a weapon Democrats have already fired three times.
Trump has been fighting embedded bureaucratic resistance since his first term began.
His voters understood the mechanism long before it had a name.
Hillary Clinton just confirmed every bit of it from her own mouth.
She intended it as a tutorial for the party's future.
It landed as a confession Republicans will be quoting through November.
Congress hasn't codified Trump's policy wins into permanent law.
The agencies haven't been fully cleared.
And the most famous losing candidate in modern political history just walked the country through exactly how Democrats plan to undo it all the moment the White House changes hands.
Sources:
- Nick Arama, "Hoo Boy: Hillary Clinton's Advice to the Next Democrat President Says It All," RedState, August 7, 2026.
- "Hillary Clinton: A Democrat President Must 'Get Rid of All' the Trump People So They Don't Subvert the Administration," Grabien, August 7, 2026.
- "8 Biden Political Appointees Burrowing In to the Bureaucracy," The Daily Signal, May 4, 2025.
- "Obama appointees 'burrowing in' for career federal jobs," The Washington Times, November 28, 2016.
- "GAO Report: 78 Obama Political Appointees 'Burrowed In' to Career Positions," Newsmax, September 27, 2017.
