Deep State: What is it?

Poll: Majority says mainstream media publishes fake news
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/334897-poll-majority-says-mainstream-media-publishes-fake-news

Do Americans Trust the Media?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/do-americans-trust-the-media_us_598cdfdde4b0ed1f464c09af

Poll: Mainstream media continues to lose the public’s trust
http://wjla.com/news/nation-world/main-stream-media-continue-to-lose-the-publics-trust

Is the Deep State real — and is it really at war with Donald Trump?
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article198038824.html

The Republican Plot Against the F.B.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/opinion/nunes-memo-fbi-trump.html

The Deep State Is A Very Real Thing
This entity is called the civil service, and it was created to limit the power of the president.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-deep-state_us_58c94a64e4b01d0d473bcfa3

Trump has picked a fight with the FBI. He’ll be sorry.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/messing-with-the-fbi-trump-doesnt-know-history/2018/02/01/53f94f62-0788-11e8-94e8-e8b8600ade23_story.html?utm_term=.fd9dc5b1ad4d

Carl Schurz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schurz

United States federal civil service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_civil_service

Is the Deep State real — and is it really at war with Donald Trump?
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article198038824.html

Trump’s 1st State of the Union: Will he have a plan to reform the “deep state?”
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/01/24/trumps-1st-sotu-does-he-have-a-plan-to-reform-the-deep-state/

WHAT IS THE DEEP STATE? CIVIL SERVANTS AND THE MILITARY OBEYING THE RULE OF LAW
http://www.newsweek.com/what-deep-state-civil-servants-and-military-obeying-rule-law-704282