MAGA-land

Liz Truss thinks the ‘deep state’ is out to get Donald Trump

Ex-UK prime minister has a warning for the man hoping return to the White House.

BY NOAH KEATE

Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister ventured deeper into MAGA-land Tuesday as she predicted the “deep state” will work even harder to undermine Donald Trump in a second term.

Liz Truss, who is promoting a new book that bills her as a leader in “the Revolution Against Globalism, Socialism, and the Liberal Establishment,” argued in an op-ed Tuesday that the U.S. economic establishment is already “arming against Mr. Trump and his economic program.”

And she compared U.S. Republicans to her ill-fated Conservative administration — warning GOP politicians are in “for the fight of their lives” as Trump once again vies for the White House.

“The administrative state undermined Mr. Trump’s first term and undermined my tenure as Britain’s prime minister, forcing me out of office after 49 days,” she writes in the Wall Street Journal.

“I assumed that I would be able to drive through the agenda on which I was elected. How wrong I was. The opaque British bureaucratic state undermined my proposed reforms, and their American equivalents will have Mr. Trump in their sights if he is victorious in November. The deep state will attempt to undercut him even more than it did in his first term.”

Truss was ousted from office by her own party after her mini-budget caused economic turmoil and sent markets into a spin. In her book, Truss argues the U.K.’s Treasury, the Bank of England and its Office for Budget Responsibility engaged in a “sustained whispering campaign” against her tax-cutting policies.

Against that backdrop, she warns, Conservatives need “a concerted plan to dismantle the deep state, which seeks its own self-preservation.”

It’s not the first time Truss has flirted with U.S. style populism. In February, Truss spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington where she derided “conservatives in name only” and called for Republicans “who aren’t going to cave into the establishment.”

The former prime minister also raised eyebrows in the U.K. when she appeared alongside ex- White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon. She rowed in behind Trump’s return to power Monday, saying he “has to” win and arguing the “world was safer” when he was in charge.

Truss jets off to the U.S. to promote the stateside edition of her book later this week. That tour includes a speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank on April 22.