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,\u00a0a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure<\/strong>. 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\u00a0<\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration<\/strong><\/p>\n
President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump\u2019s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.<\/p>\n
The dilemma \u2014 which he does not fully grasp \u2014 is that\u00a0many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
I would know. I am one of them.<\/p>\n
To be clear, ours is not the popular \u201cresistance\u201d of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.<\/p>\n
But\u00a0we 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<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions\u00a0while thwarting Mr. Trump\u2019s more misguided impulses until he is out of office<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
The root of the problem is the president\u2019s amorality<\/strong>.\u00a0Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Although he was elected as a Republican,\u00a0the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people<\/strong>. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright.<\/p>\n
In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the \u201cenemy of the people,\u201d President Trump\u2019s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n
But these successes have come despite \u2014 not because of \u2014 the president\u2019s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.<\/p>\n
From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief\u2019s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims.<\/p>\n
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.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\u201cThere is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,\u201d 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\u2019d made only a week earlier.<\/p>\n
The erratic behavior would be more concerning if it weren\u2019t for unsung heroes in and around the White House<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s right even when Donald Trump won\u2019t.<\/p>\n
The result is a two-track presidency.<\/p>\n
Take foreign policy: In public and in private,\u00a0President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators<\/strong>, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
On Russia, for instance, the president was reluctant to expel so many of Mr. Putin\u2019s spies as punishment for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain.<\/strong>\u00a0He 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 \u2014 such actions had to be taken, to hold Moscow accountable.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t the work of the so-called deep state. It\u2019s the work of the steady state.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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.\u00a0So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until \u2014 one way or another \u2014 it\u2019s over<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Senator John McCain put it best in his farewell letter.<\/strong>\u00a0All 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.<\/p>\n
We may no longer have Senator McCain. But we will always have his example \u2014 a lodestar for restoring honor to public life and our national dialogue. Mr. Trump may fear such honorable men, but we should revere them.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The writer is a senior official in the Trump administration.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nT R E A S O N in broad daylight!”<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
State of the Nation<\/a><\/p>\n If there was any doubt about it, there is no more about the stealthy CIA-coordinated soft coup being conducted by Deep State<\/em> and the U.S. Intelligence Community against the Trump administration.<\/p>\n The CIA’s Mockingbird Media<\/em> as always is playing an integral role in this ongoing rebellion with The New York Times taking the lead.\u00a0 Of course, President Trump is not very happy about the transparently fake news being reported to rally the Democrats, Socialists, Communists and Bolsheviks.\u00a0 As follows:<\/p>\n The New York Times quite shockingly outed itself as a co-conspirator with Deep State<\/em> in the execution of this coup d’\u00e9tat.\u00a0 By publishing a fake Op-ed by an alleged anonymous member of “The Resistance” supposedly inside the White House, the NYT shredded what little credibility they had left.<\/p>\n Not only that, but the ultra-liberal publication has now provided irrefutable evidence of its direct collusion with a Deep State<\/em> traitor in the White House in an insurrection against the POTUS.<\/p>\n Wow…you can’t make this stuff up.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Even a cursory reading of the fake Op-ed indicates that it was written as a propaganda piece posted to incite the purple revolutionaries against the administration.\u00a0 The Purple Revolution<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>actually began the very day president Trump was elected. See:\u00a0BEWARE: The Purple Revolution Comes To America<\/a><\/p>\n What’s especially striking about this journalistic hit piece is how incredibly juvenile and ridiculous it was.\u00a0 The content could have been written by an extreme left-wing Democrat who is running for office and looking to unseat his conservative Republican opponent.\u00a0 It really was that amateur an attempt to pass it off as a plea from a so-called high-level insider.<\/p>\n KEY POINT:<\/strong> Holding high the traitorous John McCain in the NYT Op-ed was a dead giveaway that this hoax was a desperate Deep State<\/em> attempt to rally the insurgents around the next phase of their Purple Revolution<\/strong><\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Really … John McCain …\u00a0Deep State’s<\/em> Shadow Secretary of State<\/a>, who was both an inveterate warmonger and war criminal, as well as a traitor to the American Republic.<\/p>\n What wasn’t amateur about the Op-ed, however, is the language which distinguished it as a seditious solicitation for assistance in overthrowing President Trump.\u00a0 That the NYT executive staff made the decision to print the appeal to Americans everywhere makes them automatically an accessory to treason…stone-cold TREASON<\/strong>.<\/p>\n For anyone who doubts this self-evident conclusion, the concerned NYT Op-ed is posted below in its entirety.<\/p>\n If there is a silver lining in this dark cloud hanging over the White House, it’s that the president now has hard evidence of treason which is sufficient to shut down The New York Times for good.\u00a0 The POTUS can’t make such a move soon enough; after all, the whole nation has just witnessed a blatant:<\/p>\n Now that the Mainstream Media<\/em> has proven itself to be “the enemy of the people”<\/em><\/a>, Trump can respond to their outright treason.\u00a0 A swift shut-down of every MSM organ of seditious propaganda is fully justified.\u00a0 With the deliberate dissemination of the NYT Op-ed, the Executive Branch possesses proof of a highly calculated plot of treason against the American Republic.\u00a0 Therefore,\u00a0The Mainstream Media<\/em> Must Be Shut Down And\/Or Taken Over Post Haste<\/a><\/p>\n President Trump has apparently just initiated his own action plan, and boy is he pissed as he should be. See:\u00a0Trump Orders NYTimes To Reveal Op-Ed Source For \u201cNational Security\u201d Purposes<\/a><\/p>\n Like any harebrained scheme to oust a sitting POTUS with such a\u00a0puerile psyop, both sides of the aisle are disavowing it with a vengeance.\u00a0 When MSM leftists support Trump on any matter whatsoever, you know the perps really screwed up. See:\u00a0Trump Saboteur Op-Ed Backfires: LA Times Calls \u201cA Coward\u201d; Greenwald: \u201cUnelected Cabal\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n The rogue intel agents of\u00a0Deep State<\/em>\u00a0who perpetrated this psyop did so to coordinate it\u2019s publication with Bob Woodward\u2019s fallacious account of the Trump presidency.\u00a0 There are so many key (and radioactive) quotes in that fictitious book \u2014\u00a0Fear: Trump in the White House<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 that have since been discredited by the identified speakers themselves, that the NYT Op-ed was hastily designed to give credence to them.\u00a0 However, both Woodward the phony and the fake West Wing insider have unwittingly combined their bogus efforts to create a HUGE fiasco for\u00a0Deep State<\/em>.<\/p>\n Because of what is truly at stake in the 2018 midterms, it should come as no surprise that all of these mutinous endeavors are but prep work for\u00a0The October SURPRISE of 2018 to be Preceded by a September SHOCK & AWE!<\/a><\/p>\n
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