Fox guest blames “deep state” for Trump failing to drain the swamp during his presidency
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Citation From the July 17, 2023, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): He only had four years, but if he is reelected, he'll only have four years, and he couldn't drain the swamp the first time. And now you hear him complaining about all these people he hired. What ever happened to “the buck stops here"? He's the dec -- he was the guy ultimately whose name was on the line with ‘I hired these guys.'
MONICA CROWLEY (FORMER ASSISTANT TREASURY SECRETARY): Yeah, well look, I think his opponents in the Republican primary are certainly going to exploit that line of attack, and he has answers for it and it's primarily the answers that I laid out. Did he thoroughly drain the swamp? No, he didn't. But he was so distracted with the massive, never-ending assault on him and his presidency coming from the deep state, the permanent administrative state, the propaganda press, and so on that he was fending off so many attacks at the same time that I think next time around he will take that hard-earned wisdom and make fundamentally different choices. And you will see an astonishing second term for President Trump.