--- title: Samantha Bee on Donald Trump Deep State Fears VIDEO description: Samantha Bee delved into the recent increased focus by Trump supporters on the existence of the "deep state." canonical: https://time.com/4703712/samantha-bee-trump-leaks/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-16T20:24:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-14T22:40:09.000Z og:title: Samantha Bee Scrutinizes Trump's Fear of Intelligence Leaks og:description: The Full Frontal host isn't here for conspiracy theories og:url: https://time.com/4703712/samantha-bee-trump-leaks/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Samantha Bee Scrutinizes Trump's Fear of Intelligence Leaks twitter:description: The Full Frontal host isn't here for conspiracy theories twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Samantha Bee Delve Into Trump's Intelligence Leak Claims  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Updated: Dec 14, 2023 10:40 PM UTCPublished: Mar 16, 2017 8:24 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Updated: Dec 14, 2023 10:40 PM UTCPublished: Mar 16, 2017 8:24 PM UTC Following [President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claim](http://time.com/4702368/trump-wiretap-no-evidence-house-intel-chair/) that Barack Obama [wiretapped](http://time.com/4691279/white-house-trump-obama-wire-tap/) Trump Tower during the [2016 election](http://time.com/4691594/donald-trump-russia-poll/), Samantha Bee delved into the recent increased focus by Trump supporters on the [existence of the “deep state.”](https://twitter.com/YahooNews/status/840292430704340992/video/1) During Wednesday episode of _Full Frontal_, Bee took it upon herself to unpack criticism among Trump supporters some of whom have discussed a [“shadowy bureaucracy”](https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/838148529554096128?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc^tfw) — the host told viewers that it’s really just a collection of “career bureaucrats” leftover from the Obama administration. She continued: “Think of them as passengers on a bus that’s now being driven by a feral, paranoid monkey,” she joked. “They’re not trying to kick him out of the driver’s seat – they know we chose the monkey to be the bus driver because Hillary Clinton used e-mail and was a woman, and they respect that. They’re just trying to turn the wheel slightly…so we don’t run over a cliff.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4703712/samantha-bee-trump-leaks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4703712/samantha-bee-trump-leaks/"},"headline":"Watch Samantha Bee Delve Into Trump's Intelligence Leak Claims","datePublished":"2017-03-16T20:24:59.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-14T22:40:09.000Z","description":"The Full Frontal host isn't here for conspiracy theories","url":"https://time.com/4703712/samantha-bee-trump-leaks/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","TV","Donald Trump","Late Night Television","samantha bee"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4703712/samantha-bee-trump-leaks/","name":"Watch Samantha Bee Delve Into Trump's Intelligence Leak Claims"}}]}] ```