Senior Trump official: "I am part of the resistance"

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   promisemposted 6 years ago

   Senior Trump official writes anonymous op-ed column in the New York Times about how officials in the administration are trying to protect the country from Trump.
   
   "The writer states frankly that he considers Trump amoral, erratic, and anti-democratic, as well as “impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective,” “half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless.”
   
   http://fortune.com/2018/09/05/new-york- … anonymous/
   
   My guess is that senior Trump officials know he is doomed and want him out of office before the 2020 election. That way they can put Pence into the White House.
   
   Your thoughts on why someone wrote the article?

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      wildernessposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      Severe TDS coupled with a distinct lack of ethics or morals?

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         La Veeztaposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         You got that right. The only other reason is if what he says about Trump is really true then he has to be trying to put Trump over the edge of sanity which doesn’t make for a safe country now does it. This guy has taken an oath to defend the country and secretly undermining the President for any reason is a violation of his oath and shows no regard for the safety of our nation. These officials are supposed to take action in the case of a President becoming unfit for the job, not secretly try to put him over the edge.

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         promisemposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         I was hoping for a respectful and rational discussion about a major news story. But I see you would rather take a different path.

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            wildernessposted 6 years agoin reply to this

            You may find that answer "disrespectful"; I find it a rational and valid answer to the question of why someone wrote such an article.  Certainly it is no more "disrespectful" than the article was!

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               La Veeztaposted 6 years agoin reply to this

               Absolutely wilderness, I think we’re dealing with a snowflake here. Start st 37:25 and listen to just a couple minutes and you’ll know all you need to know about the writer.
               https://youtu.be/AnTXjM1W0mc

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                  wildernessposted 6 years agoin reply to this

                  For once I agree with Limbaugh.  It doesn't happen often, but he's right on this time.

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                     La Veeztaposted 6 years agoin reply to this

                     Actually that wasn’t Rush but a guest host - if you listened to Rush you should know his voice because it is nothing like this guy. If you listen to him enough to know his voice maybe you’d agree with him more than you think. Isn’t it funny how this guy spews a long list of Trump’s accomplishments and the op ed writer can’t but says he wants to stop him from achieving anything - this op ed and NYT stinks to high heaven.

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      JAKE Earthshineposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      There are several candidates but don't rule out fake christian Mike Pence who might have blew this first whistle: He was the Trump Transition Chief if I remember correctly which means he's doomed in legal jeopardy just like Bozo:
      
      Maybe this is his first step in 'flipping' to the good side like they all eventually do:

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         promisemposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         My guess is that Jeff Sessions did it. He is probably fed up with the insults and knows he is getting fired soon.

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            IslandBitesposted 6 years agoin reply to this

            Now THAT would be "funny".   Brrr
            
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjKyiDmRl4I
            
            

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               promisemposted 6 years agoin reply to this

               Good link. Yep, lodestar has had a lot of talk. Some expert on TV last night speculated that the person who wrote the article used certain words on purpose to cast suspicion on other administration officials.
               
               I can't believe Pence is so dumb that he would use lodestar in the column. But you never know.

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            Dean Traylorposted 6 years agoin reply to this

            Well, its certainly not Betsy DeVos nor Ben Carson. One can't write and the other hasnt awaken, yet.

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   RTalloniposted 6 years ago

   Someone from the White House staff may or may not be the anonymous person behind the op ed. President Trump could be behind it, using it to cover or sidetrack from a different issue.
   
   Dishonest reporters have been known to be, shall we say, creative. There is a mile-long list of media representatives and politicians using dishonest creativity to promote themselves and their agendas. The entire liberal staff of the NYT could be the anonymous writer.
   
   Anonymous writers discredit everything about themselves and their message by their jealous and deceitful cowardice. In pondering how the only thing I know about something someone tells me is that I know they told me I try to remember that unless I was there to see and hear the entire matter myself I do not know what is true about what I was told. Knowing human nature, I may or may not have been told the whole story in a truthful manner and the chances of the story having been colored by motivations that do not line up with the entire truth are pretty good.

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      wildernessposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      Now factor in that reality is seen through a different "filter" by each of us and what is perceived by one as real and true is as false as it can be to another and there is a very real problem with accepting the word of an anonymous voice behind the curtain.
      
      Bad enough that people have a tendency to lie and exaggerate (to the nth degree for politicians) but when they believe that exaggeration or lie to actually be true and factual and there just isn't much left.

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         RTalloniposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         A R. Reagan quote comes to mind: Trust but verify.

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      promisemposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      "The entire liberal staff of the NYT ..."
      
      Do you know them personally? Do you work with them? Just curious.

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         RTalloniposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         No, not personally, but the liberal ones are glad to make their stance clear enough. Besides that, the few who are not liberal could have banded together all by themselves to write it. All this is hypothetical supposing, of course, to point out that we do not know the who, what, when, or where of this anonymous op ed.

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