How a Deep State Bureaucrat Became Trump’s ‘Fake News’ Enforcer

Not long ago a group of Georgetown University alumni found themselves obsessing over a curious bit of Washington gossip. Brendan Carr, President Donald Trump’s head of the Federal Communications Commission, was claiming to be a fellow member of the class of 2001. Lately, Carr had been everywhere in the news, butting heads with Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, and appearing in feverish cable news segments. Yet no one in the alumni group remembered meeting him or even hearing about the guy back on Georgetown’s small, chatty campus.

To solve the mystery, they pulled out their senior ...