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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.