“There Is a Reason We Tried to Kill This”: After Helsinki, the Deep State Fears Trump Cannot Be Saved

As John Bolton grapples with the fallout from the president’s harrowing performance in Finland, the analysts and experts who comprise the national-security apparatus brace themselves for what might come next. “The president might think it’s us being ‘deep-staters,’ but the reality is we were trying to protect him,” says a Trump administration official. “It was a bad idea from all sides.”