Donald Trump won a landslide victory because voters wanted to drain the swamp once and for all.
The swamp wasn’t going down without a fight.
And a Marine whistleblower dropped a bombshell about the Deep State's war against Trump.
Trump's orders disappear inside the DOJ
Dr. Timothy V. Shindelar is a retired Marine Corps Colonel and Army War College graduate who spent nearly a decade investigating how the Deep State operates.
Investigative journalist Lara Logan asked Shindelar to explain how presidential orders never reach their destination.
"When you run a complex organization, a large organization, if you don't want the boss to see things, you simply take care of it and just doesn't get to their desk," Shindelar said. "When you have an organization of, say, 15 or 20,000 people, geographically dispersed across the nation, a broom sweeps only what it touches. And if you're not holding the broom, it's not sweeping."¹
He calls this network the "rear guard."
"If you don't have a loyal crew, a loyal group of people that share your vision, then they can undermine you," Shindelar explained. "And that's exactly what's occurring."¹
Assistant Attorney blocked corruption investigation
Both President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi issued directives to investigate corruption inside the Justice Department.
An assistant attorney rejected those orders.
"The attorney general signs out a memorandum that says, I'm in absolute lockstep with my boss, and we're going to fix the corruption that exists inside the department," Shindelar said.¹
Then a DOJ official stopped it cold.
"An assistant attorney says, I represent the United States of America, and I don't want you to investigate corruption that specifically involves the DOJ," Shindelar said. "Not only is it completely bereft. It's illegal."¹
Shindelar revealed that a whistleblower warned the acting Attorney General that Assistant U.S. attorneys who had worked for Jack Smith — the Special Counsel who prosecuted Trump — needed to be investigated.
They got away clean.
"But they didn't investigate him. They simply just let him go without any accountability," Shindelar said.¹
The acting Attorney General made that call.
Obama created the command structure in 2008
Logan asked Shindelar to define this "rear guard."
"The rear guard is a group of people that are ideologically driven to a particular point of view, and that point of view is not shared by the current administration," Shindelar said.¹
Logan asked if it was organized.
"Of course it's organized," Shindelar said.¹
He identified the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency as the hidden command structure.
CIGIE was created in 2008 under Barack Obama with support from Senator Chuck Grassley.²
"It's an independent entity established in the executive branch to oversight, train, educate, and provide individual counsel for all inspectors general," Shindelar explained. "It answers unto itself."¹
Logan questioned how any entity inside the executive branch could be independent of the President.
"Because Congress established it as an independent entity inside the executive branch," Shindelar said.¹
Shindelar said it only works if you reject the idea that the President controls the entire executive branch.
Some call the Department of Justice the "Department of just us" — a two-tiered system where elites play by different rules.
Trump believes he was elected to lead the country.
The administrative state believes it answers to itself instead.
Shindelar spent nearly a decade documenting this system.
He identified CIGIE as the mechanism that allows federal agencies to move in lockstep against Trump.
The rear guard controls what information reaches the President's desk and buries everything else.
That's how Assistant U.S. attorneys who prosecuted Trump for Jack Smith avoided investigation despite a whistleblower report.
That's how Trump's anti-corruption directives disappear before they're implemented.
Unelected bureaucrats decided they know better than the 77 million Americans who voted for Trump.
The administrative state created a structure where they answer to themselves, not the Commander in Chief.
Logan noted that Hollywood constantly portrays presidents as bumbling idiots.
"It's an insult," Shindelar said.¹
Those portrayals condition Americans to accept that the President doesn't actually run the government.
Trump's war on the Deep State isn't campaign rhetoric.
It's a fight against a command structure embedded in the federal bureaucracy since 2008.
Shindelar just pulled back the curtain on exactly how it operates.
¹ "Administrative State's 'Rear Guard' Blocking Trump Agenda Unveiled in Lara Logan Interview," LifeZette, December 9, 2025.
² "Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency," Wikipedia, September 21, 2025.
