I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration

[Recursion]

Holy hell.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html

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.

...

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.

[mobeau69]

1. K&R

This will piss the traitor off to the max!

[Freethinker65]

2. Now is the time for the Democratic Party to hit the GOP Trump enabling legislators hard

Are you loyal to the country or to Trump? The Republican legislators need to be asked this question over and over.

[COLGATE4]

3. Permit me to inject a little note of skepticism

This sounds an awful lot to me like someone who has decided to try and cover his/her ass and is now (anonymously, of course) letting the 'folks' know about how (s)he and his/her band of 'principled conservatives' like an awful lot of what the Sharter has done but are now smelling the stench of a possible Democratic taking the House of Representatives and an almost certain impeachment. So now come the protestations about how "we're really on your side, believe us. It wasn't our fault. See, we told you so in yhe New York Times in September of 2018". Color me dubious.

[Recursion]

7. I'm more curious who the author's intended audience is

I don't buy the "the people deserve to know" line.

Somebody high in the administration wants somebody to read this. And I'm damn curious who those two somebodies are.

[C_U_L8R]

4. What's stunning is...

the writer actually thinks they are heroes,
when this actually reads like a profile in cowardice.

[fierywoman]

5. Holy shit!

[mobeau69]

6. It is well written. That should eliminate quite a few possible authors from their "resistance".

Maybe it's a collaboration. COLLUSION!

"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."

[Arkansas Granny]

8. Well, gee whiz. Isn't this wonderful? Some in his administration know he's gone off the rails, but

they still won't do what it will take to remove him from office. How in the hell do they think they can keep him under control? They are only trying to salve their own conscience while allowing him to stay in power.

Well, fuck you very much, anonymous senior official. If this person was the patriot they would have us believe, they would report what they know to Congressional leaders who could do something about it.

[Fresh_Start]

9. So there is a deep state, and its GOP and they are in the Trump administration

time to point out that Trump is looking in the wrong direction for the GOP...
he needs to look in the White house

[Neema]

10. What's frightening to me is that this person thinks he's a good guy. But while I guess he's better

than T***p himself, his touting of "historic tax reform" alone tells me all I need to know about this asshole.

[Gothmog]

11. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

[BigmanPigman]

13. Are they trying to figure out who wrote it OR

are they trying to get their bogus stories straight?

This is a good article about WHY they don't get rid of him for being unfit.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/the-madness-of-donald-trump-197853/

[Gothmog]

16. Probably a bit of both

I hope that someone left this Iphone on record during this meeting

[matt819]

12. Read the op-ed

It is garbage from start to finish. His issue is not with policy, it is with buffoonery. And it is policy as much as buffoonery that is destroying this country. Read the comments, including mine. They are not kind.

[Recursion]

14. Why would anybody think the author's issue is with policy?

That seems like a very weird thing to expect.

[BadGimp]

15. Holy Hell indeed!

[Gothmog]

17. This feels like the end of something...." - @maddow on now with @NicolleDWallace

Link to tweet

[LakeArenal]

18. Deep Throat... Is that you?

[dchill]

19. This might make him paranoid.

[Nitram]

20. The problem for us is that an unelected cabal of ideological zealots has taken over our government

and is running things to make sure the right wing agenda is fully completed before Trump is impeached or resigns. This unconstitutional, extra-judicial circumvention of the constitution for partisan purposes is a crime and a great danger to our nation.