Looks like there is a Traitor in the WH as a senior official....or at least according to the NYT. Currently too story on Drudge too:
>The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting processhere.
>President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.
>It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.
>The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
>To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.
>But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.
>That is why many Trump appointees havevowed to do what we canto preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.
>The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.
>Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright.
>The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
If only these traitors would hang.
Jason Ortiz
Post proof.
Eli Hill
Sorry guys was doing some work, will contue posting even though other threads are up.
Caleb Watson
>Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright. Trump needs to kill these people.
>In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the “enemy of the people,” President Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.
>Don’t get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more.
>But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.
>From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims.
>Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.
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Cameron Fisher
>“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently, exasperated by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only a week earlier.
>The erratic behavior would be more concerning if it weren’t for unsung heroes in and around the White House. Some of his aides have been cast as villains by the media. But in private, they have gone to great lengths to keep bad decisions contained to the West Wing, though they are clearly not always successful.
>It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t.
>The result is a two-track presidency.
>Take foreign policy: In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations.
>Astute observers have noted, though, that the rest of the administration is operating on another track, one where countries like Russia are called out for meddling and punished accordingly, and where allies around the world are engaged as peers rather than ridiculed as rivals.
Cont.
Bentley Lewis
my first thought upon reading this was it's probably as real as WaPo's Vermont Power Grid story. NYT's story sounds like it was written by a spook. I wouldn't be surprised if someone like Bruce Orr wrote it as payback for being exposed.
Anthony Cox
and seriously, what real person would want to publish this story anonymously with such language? unless it's like an Obama state dept. holdout.
Dominic Smith
Sounds like another Jow Forums larp, like the pissy pee urine tape.
>On Russia, for instance, the president was reluctantto expelso many of Mr. Putin’s spies as punishment for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. He complained for weeks about senior staff members letting him get boxed into further confrontation with Russia, and he expressed frustration that the United States continued to impose sanctions on the country for its malign behavior. But his national security team knew better — such actions had to be taken, to hold Moscow accountable.
>This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state.
>Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.
>The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility.
>Senator John McCain put it best in hisfarewell letter. All Americans should heed his words and break free of the tribalism trap, with the high aim of uniting through our shared values and love of this great nation.
Cont.
Besides being the NYT, it already looks like a shitty larp with the constant praising of McCain.
>We may no longer have Senator McCain. But we will always have his example — a lodestar for restoring honor to public life and our national dialogue. Mr. Trump may fear such honorable men, but we should revere them.
>There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first. But the real difference will be made by everyday citizens rising above politics, reaching across the aisle and resolving to shed the labels in favor of a single one: Americans.
>The writer is a senior official in the Trump administration.
This 100%. It reads like a hit piece. It reads like the folks over at the NYT can no longer ignore the positive results of Trump's administration "BUT" it comes with caveats. And for this "anonymous person(s)" those caveats are more important than all the positive. (Such as 7 trillion added to the economy, no more warmongering etc.) This is more garbage. But it will bring in the die hards and will also make those thinking of walking away to second guess.
Not the deep state, but the steady state? Stand down bitches, trump was elected to throw you out. Let democracy reign!
Isaac Lee
Reluctantly they will cause a stir with this. Warmonger McCain is dead. Deep state actors can't communicate. Israel is pissed. This is an attack and it will only serve to further polarize people. Because retarded lefties will read this and this will be their "Great hope".
Isaac Rogers
does Conway really count? she's a campaign manager this sounds like someone who works in the White House in an official capacity
Anthony Davis
Republicans were moral for the last n years and they're projected to become regional party due to shift in demographics that they didn't prevent because of morals.
Brandon Collins
It sounds made up, just with some better writing and meat behind it.
Joshua Davis
Did you even read your image? The wiretapped data didn't come from Trump tower
Aiden Foster
100% LARP. Might get the NYT shut down.
Adam Cooper
This
Thomas Kelly
>On Russia, for instance, the president was reluctant to expel so many of Mr. Putin’s spies as punishment for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. As he rightly should've been. It was none of our business and there was no proof the Russian government was behind it anyway. Good on Trump for standing up to the people actively trying to sabotage our national security.
Zachary Campbell
we need press regulation, its absurd these tinpot journalists can try to overthrow a president with fake articles, hang em all donald
Owen Nguyen
>Corsi
Fake and gay news
James Ramirez
Ho Ho Horseshit
Thomas Flores
TALK ABOUT A TAGETED HIT PIECE, LOOK WHAT JUST POPPED UP FOLLOWING THIS STORY.
Most smug story I read all day:
>The self-styled Saviors of the Country need to step forward, identify themselves, and speak plainly, honestly, and loudly about the menace in the White House.
>Instead, they continue to hide in the shadows, chirping from the darkness that they've got our backs.
>As but the latest example: On Wednesday afternoon,The New York Timesmade the highly unorthodox decision of publishing an anonymous essay from "a senior official in the Trump administration," titling the piece "I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration."
It was the English government actually. They did the poisoning and tried to pin it on the Russians and the Russians provided some proofs to this and the whole affair got quietly scrubbed.
Jaxson Hughes
That is quite interesting.
Isaiah Lopez
>>This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state
Same thing.
Cooper Johnson
>Cold comfort indeed. This just isn't good enough. Resister, reveal yourself.
>This same dynamic is at play in the debate over veteran journalist Bob Woodward's explosive forthcoming bookFear: Trump in the White House.In hissurreal conversationwith Woodward, the president asked the author if he was "naming names" or "just sayingsources" or "people have said." Woodward replied, "I say, at 2:00 on this day, the following happened, and everyone who's there, including yourself, is quoted."
>Bob Woodward's reporting — in terms of raw documentation if not interpretive sophistication — is about as unassailable a product as you're likely to find in 21st-century media. There is no reason to doubt that current and former senior aides to President Trump have belittled the man's intelligence, character, and fitness for office.
>Additionally, it's reasonable to believe that everyone quoted inFear,along with this anonymous op-ed author, came forward with the expectation that their account would be accepted one day as the part of the settled historical record of the Trump presidency. These unidentified officials are speaking to the Bleachers of History, pleading for their good names and reputations, even as they presently assure the mad emperor that he is fully clothed.
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Eli Gonzalez
Threadly reminder that the press has no qualified privilege. They can be compelled to reveal their sources.
Connor Lewis
>Be it through anonymous op-eds, "deep background" interviews, or well-intentioned whispering in journalists' ears, these resisters within the Trump administration seem intent on delivering a message to the public: Don't worry. We won't let President Trump ruin everything. And hopefully history will remember our quiet heroism.
>But this isn't heroism. It's the sort of cowardly behavior that has produced a cottage industry of Washington sages whodeclarethat it's a "good thing" that Trump is surrounded by advisers who restrain "his most reckless impulses."
>The following scenario captured by Woodward gives the lie to this self-serving tripe:
>[Trump lawyer John] Dowd then explained to [Special Counsel Robert] Mueller and [Mueller deputy attorney James] Quarles why he was trying to keep the president from testifying: "I'm not going to sit there and let him look like an idiot. And you publish that transcript, because everything leaks in Washington, and the guys overseas are going to say, 'I told you he was an idiot. I told you he was a goddamn dumbbell. What are we dealing with this idiot for?'" [Fear, viaThe Washington Post]
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Dylan Hall
so this is an opinion piece about the opinion piece?
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Blake Wood
>AsVanity Fair's Tina Nguyennotes, "Dowd is practically pleading with Mueller to think of the greater good: If foreign leaders read Trump's testimony, he suggests, it would be impossible for them not to conclude that he is unfit for office." If we did not live in a democratic republic; if our constitutional system did not include safety valves for unfit executives; if, indeed, Trump were a Mad King, Dowd's concerns would be understandable. But we do not. The only plausible explanation for concealing the truth about Trump from the public is that it would cause embarrassment to the president himself and the Republican Party.
>America, full stop, would continue along just fine.
>If America is indeed being led by a "goddamn dumbbell" who, left to his own devices, wouldstart World War III, then we should hear about it — directly from the mouths of those who uttered the words and believe them to be true. At the very least, if they're not going to resign on principle from this chaotic joke of an administration, men like John Kelly, James Mattis, and John Dowd should loudly acknowledge the truth that's in front of everyone's noses.
>To do otherwise is not to "save" the country. It is to save the reputation of Donald J. Trump.
>Thecountrydoes not require the discretion of James Mattis or John Kelly in order to survive.
>Trump does.
>History will damn them for refusing to recognize the difference.
Yea but the second one isn't from a supposed (((official))) right?
Eli White
That's what makes it bad bait
Nathaniel Edwards
No but it's disgustingly transparent this is coordinated and came out not long after the first article dropped. Not even a day and they are tying more articles to it.
Christopher Thompson
Oh for sure its coordinated. Maybe the press is freaking out that corsi is getting subpoenaed or the neocons being neocons
Ayden Nguyen
So the NYT is publishing Jeff Flake's fanfiction now?
Jaxon Torres
It's intentionally loaded with idiolects of various senior officials so that Trump will think it's one or all of them. This is co-intel pro 101 stuff. Divide and conquer by creating distrust within the target organization.
