Ever since the news broke that a senior administration official has written an anonymous Op-ed, Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten has been engaged in a round-the-clock conniption fit. He is not happy that one of his hand picked toadies, with nose buried in his Fuhrer’s rectum, has another, more hostile side.
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 process here.
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.
I would know. I am one of them.
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 have vowed to do what we can to 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…
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I urge you to click through and read the article in its entirety. I will not praise the author. His own deplorable Republican policies are self-evident, as is the cowardice he shows by hiding behind anonymity.
Rachel Maddow covers the incident.
Lawrence O’Donnell guesses at the identity.
If the author truly believes that he (generic) cannot do the job for which he was hired in good conscience without turning on his boss, then the honest course is to resign and then to white the Op-Ed. It appears this author values his standing in the Republican Reich too highly to do it the honest way. That said, I believe it.
RESIST!!
VOTE BLUE!!
61 DAYS!!
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I’m not sure I agree that this is cowardice. For one thing, Orange Judas says it is, and he has a remarkable ability to always be wrong. For another … come on, we’ve been screaming for – well, over two years – for Republicans to put country over party. This person appears to be trying to do so.
There’s a fine line, in life as in politics, between courage and foolhardiness. (There’s also a not-so-fine line, in life as in the White House, between honesty, even blunt honesty, and blurting out whtever comes into your mind as soon as it hits. But I digress.) Orange Judas crosses that line constantly. The writer of this piece is at least trying not to.
Of course the person is still a Republican and therefore does not belong in government at any level. But there still are a few Republicans who are not completely lost to ALL morality. Not many. But there are some.
A very well written Op-Ed, I’ve read it several times. Putting myself in this (R’s?) writer’s place, if I had written a letter like this about the current state of affairs in the WH, and it’s administration, I would have resigned. I could not support the fray and hurtful things being done to the citizens of this nation, that seems continual everyday, and the awful comments that dt says every day in his tweets.
On the other hand, and I’m supposing that this is a R, that if he/she put her name on the op-ed, and then released it, they would have been hailed possibly as a hero for doing so, whether they want the notoriety or not. Then,…. would have been fired/resigned. imho
I do not blame the Mystery Man/Woman for remaining anonymous. I have read that op-ed, and it is frightening just how unstable and unpredictable Squirrelwig Stalin behaves. He has no business being President; as the hoary cliché goes, he’s not fit even to be dogcatcher. Hell, he’s not fit even to be a dog! Considering how the Orange Ogre has lashed out at people in his inner circle, the author of this piece would face horrible consequences if (or when) exposed.
Sure sounds like it might be Dan Coats, loving all this!
Cheeto must be steaming!! ?
PETITION;
Invoke The 25th Amendment To Remove Trump From Office After Damning NY Times Op-Ed
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/296/741/733/
Are we not living in the “Most exciting of times?” The phrase comes fro what I believe is an ancient Chinese curse: “May you live in the most exciting of times!”
Future historians, and Political Science Ph.D.’s are going to go to town on this era. “Crisis in ‘The Grand Experiment,'” will be a typical title; “First Fully Blown Freak-out at the Fright House!” “Trump toppled over the Tipping Point” “Pence Pounced on the Opportunity to Pluck the Peacock!” “Grand Old Party Imploded as Grand Old Groper Got Garroted.”
P.S.: That’s my Cory Booker out there!!!!!!!!!
I also read the op-ed yesterday and the pick of the best of the almost 3000 comments it elicited. Most commenters were very angry with the writer because s/he (but most likely just he) and the other members of what he so shrewdly calls “the Resistance”, all unelected individuals, are now in fact running the country by manipulating Drumpf on policies they agree on as Republicans, but keeping the things that are harmful to the GOP from his desk or dissuade Drumpf from persisting.
After reading the op-ed again, I must agree with them. By naming themselves “the Resistance”, they undermine the Democratic movement by the same name and turn themselves into heroes who protect the country by enabling Drumpf only on issues they welcome as Republicans. At the same time, however, they cover up his incompetence and insanity, which even they acknowledge by “thinking of invoking the 25th”, and now by way of this admission have made impossible to invoke by others.
I think the NYT has made a mistake in publishing this anonymous op-ed. By doing so they have allowed these unofficial leaders of the country to signal to Republican voters that the GOP, and not Drumpf, is still in charge, has given them a platform to promote their Republican values and signal, two months before the election, that they are the ones saving the country. Intentionally or not, they are throwing Drumpf under the bus, but it’ll boost Republican confidence and votes.
I think this person should just resign and tell their story under their name. I’m sure any paper would love to publish it.
Why doesn’t Trump just call it fake news instead of going through one of his psychotic tantrums? His behavior gives the story more validity. There is plenty of reason to believe this story might be faked.
Thanks all. Big Hurry!
In an article from USA Today, there is a discussion about what is happening right now and the possibility of two constitutional crises. The last paragraph sums things up.
I can certainly understand why someone would want anonymity in publishing this op-ed because Diaper Don is like a dog with a bone . . . petty and extremely vindictive. But that anonymity makes it difficult for people like us to judge its veracity.
Jerry has a point:
“Why doesn’t Trump just call it fake news instead of going through one of his psychotic tantrums? His behavior gives the story more validity.”
As I said, Diaper Don is “petty and extremely vindictive”.
Bob Woodward’s book “Fear” is aptly titled because Diaper Don operates using fear, but I also believe that he is himself afraid. As Obama said:
To be sure, the end of Diaper Don as POTUS cannot come quickly enough. IMO, he is a nuclear explosion all to himself and he will likely take everyone with him.
Petition signed.
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