A group of federal bureaucrats fired by President Donald Trump are now quietly organizing a political insurgency—using tactics ripped straight from the CIA’s playbook—to sabotage his administration from within.
After President Trump slashed countless bloated government jobs in agencies like the State Department and USAID, many of these longtime bureaucrats didn’t just leave quietly. Instead, they’ve joined forces with allies still embedded in the federal government to launch what they see as a mission to “protect democracy.” In reality, it looks a lot more like revenge.
According to the far-left outlet NOTUS, many of these officials are reactivating their old “democracy-building” skillsets—tools typically used to influence or topple foreign regimes—and now applying them right here at home… against a duly elected U.S. president.
“Some of the democracy-building experts President Donald Trump fired this year from [USAID] and the State Department are now reapplying the skills and knowledge they built up over decades to undermine Trump’s power,” NOTUS reported.
If “democracy-building” sounds noble, remember what that actually looks like in practice: mass protests, civil disobedience, strategic media manipulation, regime destabilization. In other words—color revolutions.
These are nonviolent coups typically staged to replace a government viewed as authoritarian. And now some in Washington are openly suggesting that Trump is their next target.
“Take it from those of us who worked in authoritarian countries: We’ve become one,” said one current federal employee. “You just released a bunch of well-trained individuals into your population.”
That same employee even suggested it “might have been safer” for President Trump to keep paying them to sit at their desks than risk what they’ll do now. That’s not commentary. That’s a threat.
Adding fuel to the fire, some of these bureaucrats are circulating an actual CIA training pamphlet titled Simple Sabotage. The document, originally written in 1944 to help resistance fighters undermine enemy governments, outlines practical ways to disrupt systems from the inside—slow decision-making, sabotage productivity, and create chaos.
“Widespread practice of simple sabotage will harass and demoralize enemy administrators and police,” the pamphlet reads.
If that sounds familiar, it should. It’s the exact kind of soft subversion we’ve seen in recent years—bureaucrats slow-walking Trump’s agenda, intelligence leaks, selective prosecution, and media coordination. In fact, this strategy isn’t all that different from what we saw during the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles, where public pressure was used to sabotage law enforcement operations.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly responded to the revelations, saying:
“It is inherently undemocratic for unelected bureaucrats to undermine the duly elected President of the United States and the agenda he was given a mandate to implement.”
She’s right. And if this sounds like déjà vu, it should. During President Trump’s first term, we saw exactly this kind of internal resistance from bureaucrats, intelligence officials, and even cabinet-level appointees who thought they had more power than the man Americans voted for.
But this time, the president knows what he’s walking into. The deep state may be scheming—but it’s no longer in the dark. And if they thought he was unprepared before, they’re in for a very rude awakening.