For those of us, myself very much included, who are frustrated and angry about the complete lack of accountability for the lawfare abuses of the past decade, let me use the case of Andrii Telizhenko to illustrate just how firmly the deep state remains entrenched and how difficult it is to fight back. A few months ago, I traveled to an undisclosed location to meet Andrii. He was, and remains, in fear for his safety. It was an altogether sobering experience, but also, in a strange way, an uplifting one. I spent two days with Andrii, listening to his full story, and came away absolutely convinced that he was a genuinely good man who had been telling the truth all along. What struck me just as much was his faith, which had somehow sustained him through a very dark period of his life, a period that, unfortunately, continues to this day. After the Counterlawfare Institute aired our interview in July, I was contacted by someone who told me that there were official government documents that totally vindicated Andrii. I was also told that the people involved would make every effort to get those documents to the public, but that there were numerous impediments standing in the way, or what the government likes to call "equities." It was incredibly frustrating. Here was an innocent man whose life had been destroyed by deep state lies. Documentary evidence existed showing that he had been telling the truth all along and that he had been deliberately set up. Yet somehow, getting that evidence into the open required navigating an elaborate bureaucratic process, while the man whose innocence it established remained trapped in the nightmare those lies had created. Today, that truth finally came out, thanks to John Solomon, who persisted in pushing for the documents to be released, and, of course, President Trump, who appointed John in the first place. Now, you might reasonably ask why any of this should be so difficult. President Trump was elected by the American people, and if he wants documents exposing government abuses released, why shouldn't they simply be released? I agree entirely. The problem is that just because the president wants something done does not mean it will happen. Even with Trump in the White House, there are still incredibly delicate games of bureaucratic Jenga that must be played, both with and against the deep state, just to get the truth into the public domain. I wish it were otherwise, but unfortunately, this is the reality we are dealing with. And the most disturbing lesson is that things will get worse. Trump is the most determined president in American history when it comes to exposing government abuses, yet even he must navigate a minefield of obstruction built from a century's accumulation of rules, regulations, and bureaucratic procedures that the deep state has mastered and relentlessly exploits. As of this morning, the abuse against Andrii is documented on the official White House website, and yet there is still no guarantee that he will be freed. Just think how insane this is. The White House can publicly expose an injustice, and the machinery responsible for perpetuating it may still prevail. And if this is how difficult it is to obtain justice under President Trump, imagine what happens when he is gone.