How a Deep State Bureaucrat Became President Trump’s ‘Fake News’ Enforcer

When he was growing up, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr says, his chief ambition was to land a comfy job at a big law firm and spend his career bringing in new business. But instead, he says, a series of “Gump-like experiences and opportunities” had propelled him up the ranks at the FCC. By the time he reached the top of the institution he’d come to cherish, a particularly tumultuous, anti-institutional fervor was sweeping through the federal government led by President Trump and Elon Musk, a technology billionaire wielding a chainsaw. Reflexively, he realigned to assist the team coming into power and vowing to dismantle Washington. “One thing that I wanted to do is leverage the fact that I’ve been here for a dozen years,” Chairman Carr says. “I know how the place works."