The Anti‑Deep‑State President and the Deepening Shadows: Epstein, Drones, and the UFO Cover‑Up
Written by Christopher Sharp - 18 July 2025
President Donald Trump positioned himself as the anti–deep state candidate - someone who would challenge the entrenched power of hidden bureaucracies and special interests.
The White House’s website even refers to Trump’s current administration as the ‘most transparent administration in history’.
Yet from almost day one, the promise of transparency began to fade.
In January 2025, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt downplayed reports of mystery drones, including those observed near sensitive military installations in New Jersey, claiming they were simply research drones approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
This was despite the fact that the FAA had imposed restrictions in direct response to these incidents.
Observers monitoring the drone incursions noticed that Trump had retreated from his earlier vow to deliver a (supposedly honest) report for the mysterious flights, which had occurred over sensitive U.S. and NATO installations across North America and Europe throughout November, December, and January.
Now, Trump’s reluctance to provide transparency and confront institutional secrecy is becoming unmistakably clear.
After Trump and several key allies hinted during the 2024 campaign that his administration would release the long-rumoured client list of Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender with ties to powerful elites, the White House has since downplayed the issue, with Trump dismissing calls for disclosure as a "hoax."
Months earlier, his Attorney General, Pam Bondi, was asked whether the “DOJ [Department of Justice] may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients? Will that really happen?” She responded, “It is sitting on my desk right now, to review.”
Although Trump never offered a clear, on-the-record commitment to ‘release the Epstein files,’ his 2024 campaign rhetoric—and the pledges of key allies like Pam Bondi and J.D. Vance—helped foster the public expectation that a full disclosure was imminent.
Now, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, 69% of Americans believe Trump’s administration is concealing critical information about Epstein’s network, with only 17% approving of how Trump has handled the matter.
Trump’s credentials in taking on powerful vested interests have suffered a serious blow.
With this in mind, Congressman Eric Burlison - an outspoken advocate for greater transparency around Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) - has stated that President Trump has been briefed on the subject of non-human intelligence. Sources have alleged to Liberation Times that Trump knows the truth.
This week, the Italian publication L’Espresso claimed that Trump had been briefed on an alleged secret program known as Project Preserve Destiny, although Liberation Times sources are unable to confirm this.
According to retired USAF Sergeant Dan Sherman, the program, run by the National Security Agency (NSA), was designed to facilitate communications with non-human intelligences.
Sherman’s program‑within‑a‑program structure of secrecy claim - recently reported by Liberation Times and corroborated by a defence source - mirrors a leaked NSA brief on Sentry Eagle, an umbrella codename that shields the agency’s most closely held core secrets.
According to Snowden documents highlighted by WIRED, these ultra‑secret operations are led by the NSA and, in the case of Sentry Osprey, conducted jointly with the CIA, FBI, Defense Intelligence Agency and Army intelligence.
The brief divides Sentry Eagle into six compartments, including Sentry Osprey, which deploys clandestine Human Intelligence teams to support Signals Intelligence, and Sentry Raven, which works with commercial firms to weaken encryption for exploitation. Meanwhile, Sentry Owl is described as a program involving collaboration with private companies.
Following conversations with sources, Liberation Times asked the NSA, ‘Does NSA have any Foreign Intelligence it collected (Signals Intelligence) regarding UAP and more specifically, intercepted communications of other countries responding to a UAP incident?’
An NSA spokesperson responded, ‘We have nothing to offer you on this.’ The spokesperson later added, ‘In general, we do not comment on operational matters.’
Sources tell Liberation Times that much of the conspiracy to conceal UAP and non-human intelligence operates directly under Trump’s nose, shielded by elements within the National Security Council and by career officials embedded within two White House offices.
The sources say the names of these offices cannot be disclosed due to security reasons.
Such concerns support what UAP advocate and acclaimed scientist, Garry Nolan, stated in March this year, when he said:
"I've said this publicly so I'll say it again here: I was personally threatened because I knew of a conversation that happened somewhere, and I alluded to it in the most elliptical fashion on a public broadcast. Literally a couple of days later, I get a phone call from a friend saying, 'XYZ at the White House is really pissed at you and you should not ever say anything like that again, because Title 18 applies…'
"I said, 'What does that mean?' 'Lethal force is operable!' I'm not kidding you. I put down the phone and I... I honestly nearly broke down in tears. And I called a reporter friend of mine and... to just basically report it to them, to say, ‘This just happened to me. I was just threatened.’”
Trump’s National Security Advisor, Marco Rubio, has been a pro-UAP disclosure advocate and instrumental to previous Senate attempts to provide transparency through legislation.
Rubio and his boss, President Trump, could play a key role in the months to come.
The UAP Disclosure Act is set to be reintroduced in Congress, with the aim of securing its inclusion in the final version of the upcoming National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Originally unveiled in 2023 by then–Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Senator Mike Rounds, the legislation was a bold attempt at transparency regarding UAP. However, it was ultimately gutted in 2023 following reported resistance from the House of Representatives and failed to make it into the final NDAA passed last year.
Since the beginning of this year, talks have been occurring between White House officials and UAP disclosure advocates, including Retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, former Acting Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), who met such officials in February 2025.
Since then, at least publicly, no traction has been gained.
Facing an uphill struggle to get passed, support from the White House will be crucial to getting the UAPDA passed this year, especially with both the Senate and House under Republican control.
With a revolt brewing over Epstein, Trump now finds himself outflanked - even by longtime political adversaries like Senators Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff - when it comes to transparency on UAP secrecy.
The pressure is mounting on the Trump administration to prove that the White House is truly committed to confronting secrecy, rather than preserving the status quo.
