Intelligence officials fear Trump’s rage over 'insufficiently loyal' 'deep state': report

As the country prepares for Donald Trump’s return to the White House, intelligence officials past and present are bracing for a more specific threat: the president-elect’s revenge plot against “deep state” federal employees whom he views as “insufficiently loyal,” according to a new report which lays out three possible scenarios for Trump’s payback.

The former president has long made his dislike of intelligence officials and other federal employees known, and his belief “that malevolent...