[P]erhaps this has all been a deep state conspiracy like Donald Trump alleges, Bernstein, a CNN political analyst, said.  Bernstein was always a hack. If anyone would recognize a deep state operation it would be him. He and Woodward were the, likely willing, deep state propaganda conduits used to bring down Nixon for trivialities -- nothing worse than what Johnson or the Kennedy brothers did before him. Nixon was portrayed as being paranoid of the press -- the enemy of the people today, was the enemy of the pople back then.