In 2007, Peter Dale Scott, a retired University of California, Berkeley, English professor, published The Road to 9/11, which, for the first time, explicitly applied the term “deep state” to the United States. Scott accused the US military of having fueled conflict both inside and outside the country from the Cold War to 9/11. After that book’s publication, Scott became an occasional guest on Alex Jones’s far-right conspiratorial radio program. Trump has praised Jones, who appeared with him during the 2016 presidential campaign.
