The Republican administration trying to gain some credibility by claiming they were keeping Trump in check all along but taking credit for his populist policies. That’ll be the narrative once he’s gone. Feels like the end game now.
Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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So the suspects seem to be
Pence
Mattis
Pompeo
Coates
I dunno why, but even with the “lodestar” usage, I don’t feel like it’s Pence. Apart from anything else, I reckon he wants a political future, and wouldn’t take this risk - plus he voluntarily signed on and actively assisted Trump in winning.
Mattis likes the use of “first principles”, but the article is quite like a political speech, which might rule him out.
Pompeo DEFINITELY wants a future in republican politics.
Coates is my guess. The national security focus. The mention of “standard” conservative ideals. Plus he’s in his mid 70’s, so probably doesn’t care about having a future in the GOP.
Pence
Mattis
Pompeo
Coates
I dunno why, but even with the “lodestar” usage, I don’t feel like it’s Pence. Apart from anything else, I reckon he wants a political future, and wouldn’t take this risk - plus he voluntarily signed on and actively assisted Trump in winning.
Mattis likes the use of “first principles”, but the article is quite like a political speech, which might rule him out.
Pompeo DEFINITELY wants a future in republican politics.
Coates is my guess. The national security focus. The mention of “standard” conservative ideals. Plus he’s in his mid 70’s, so probably doesn’t care about having a future in the GOP.
Nation Stunned That There Is Someone in White House Capable of Writing an Editorial
"WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Millions of Americans were startled by the revelation on Wednesday afternoon that there was someone working in the Trump White House capable of writing an entire editorial, reports indicate.
In a nation already rocked by a series of bombshells since Labor Day, the news that an anonymous senior White House official had the command of the English language necessary to compose a seemingly coherent Op-Ed piece suitable for publication in a major newspaper was perhaps the most improbable development of all.
Davis Logsdon, a professor of linguistics at the University of Minnesota, said that a team of language experts under his supervision has studied the Op-Ed word by word and is “in a state of disbelief” that someone currently working for Donald J. Trump could have written it.
“There are complete sentences, there are well-structured paragraphs, there is subject-verb agreement,” he said. “This does not appear to be the work of any White House staffer we’re familiar with.
Stressing that he and his team of linguists are “not even close” to determining the author, Logsdon said that they were currently using the process of elimination to whittle down the list of possible scribes. ..."
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/bor...n-white-house-capable-of-writing-an-editorial
Do you think the word was planted? Juicy.
I must admit given that word I do wonder if it was planted , also I saw “off the rails “ used which Bob Woodward had earlier attributed to General Kelly . So it could clearly be somebody mixing it up to avoid analysis.
That would be very clever indeed, but I have a few problems with that:
It takes a good writer to fake others' writing habits
Most of these are not great writers, although they all have assistants/writers working for them
The more people you have involved the more likely it leaks/is an open secret
These people are clever schemers, but I'm not certain whether I believe they're that clever
Much as I disagree with the President I find these sorts of reports very disturbing, There are ways of expressing your concern about, and even removing an elected president, and I’d prefer they were followed rather than everyone in the administration developing a god complex believing their actions are heroically saving the world.
https://www.axios.com/trump-adminis...aks-a5a82efa-d6c8-4209-b616-80f1422eb36c.html
President Trump is not just seething about Bob Woodward. He’s deeply suspicious of much of the government he oversees — from the hordes of folks inside agencies, right up to some of the senior-most political appointees and even some handpicked aides inside his own White House, officials tell Axios.
The big picture: He should be paranoid. In the hours after the New York Times published the anonymous Op-Ed from "a senior official in the Trump administration" trashing the president ("I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration"), two senior administration officials reached out to Axios to say the author stole the words right out of their mouths. "I find the reaction to the NYT op-ed fascinating — that people seem so shocked that there is a resistance from the inside," one senior official said. "A lot of us [were] wishing we’d been the writer, I suspect ... I hope he [Trump] knows — maybe he does? — that there are dozens and dozens of us."
Why it matters: Several senior White House officials have described their roles to us as saving America and the world from this president. A good number of current White House officials have privately admitted to us they consider Trump unstable, and at times dangerously slow. But the really deep concern and contempt, from our experience, has been at the agencies — and particularly in the foreign policy arena.
For some time last year, Trump even carried with him a handwritten list of people suspected to be leakers undermining his agenda. "He would basically be like, 'We’ve gotta get rid of them. The snakes are everywhere but we’re getting rid of them,'" said a source close to Trump. Trump would often ask staff whom they thought could be trusted. He often asks the people who work for him what they think about their colleagues, which can be not only be uncomfortable but confusing to Trump: Rival staffers shoot at each other and Trump is left not knowing who to believe.
Officials describe an increasingly conspiracy-minded president: "When he was super frustrated about the leaks, he would rail about the 'snakes' in the White House," said a source who has discussed administration leakers with the president. "Especially early on, when we would be in Roosevelt Room meetings, he would sit down at the table, and get to talking, then turn around to see who was sitting along the walls behind him." "One day, after one of those meetings, he said, 'Everything that just happened is going to leak. I don’t know any of those people in the room.' ... He was very paranoid about this."
The Times Op-Ed reinforces everything Trump instinctively believes: That a "Deep State" exists. It's trying to undermine him and — in the case of Jeff Sessions’ Justice Department, in Trump’s mind — is trying to overthrow his presidency. The Bob Woodward book, Trump believes, exposes that leakers are everywhere — and gunning for him.
Be smart: "People talk about the loyalists leaving," the source close to Trump tells us. "What it really means is [that there'll be] fewer and fewer people who Trump knows who they really are. So imagine how paranoid you must be if that is your view of the world."
https://www.axios.com/trump-adminis...aks-a5a82efa-d6c8-4209-b616-80f1422eb36c.html
President Trump is not just seething about Bob Woodward. He’s deeply suspicious of much of the government he oversees — from the hordes of folks inside agencies, right up to some of the senior-most political appointees and even some handpicked aides inside his own White House, officials tell Axios.
The big picture: He should be paranoid. In the hours after the New York Times published the anonymous Op-Ed from "a senior official in the Trump administration" trashing the president ("I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration"), two senior administration officials reached out to Axios to say the author stole the words right out of their mouths. "I find the reaction to the NYT op-ed fascinating — that people seem so shocked that there is a resistance from the inside," one senior official said. "A lot of us [were] wishing we’d been the writer, I suspect ... I hope he [Trump] knows — maybe he does? — that there are dozens and dozens of us."
Why it matters: Several senior White House officials have described their roles to us as saving America and the world from this president. A good number of current White House officials have privately admitted to us they consider Trump unstable, and at times dangerously slow. But the really deep concern and contempt, from our experience, has been at the agencies — and particularly in the foreign policy arena.
For some time last year, Trump even carried with him a handwritten list of people suspected to be leakers undermining his agenda. "He would basically be like, 'We’ve gotta get rid of them. The snakes are everywhere but we’re getting rid of them,'" said a source close to Trump. Trump would often ask staff whom they thought could be trusted. He often asks the people who work for him what they think about their colleagues, which can be not only be uncomfortable but confusing to Trump: Rival staffers shoot at each other and Trump is left not knowing who to believe.
Officials describe an increasingly conspiracy-minded president: "When he was super frustrated about the leaks, he would rail about the 'snakes' in the White House," said a source who has discussed administration leakers with the president. "Especially early on, when we would be in Roosevelt Room meetings, he would sit down at the table, and get to talking, then turn around to see who was sitting along the walls behind him." "One day, after one of those meetings, he said, 'Everything that just happened is going to leak. I don’t know any of those people in the room.' ... He was very paranoid about this."
The Times Op-Ed reinforces everything Trump instinctively believes: That a "Deep State" exists. It's trying to undermine him and — in the case of Jeff Sessions’ Justice Department, in Trump’s mind — is trying to overthrow his presidency. The Bob Woodward book, Trump believes, exposes that leakers are everywhere — and gunning for him.
Be smart: "People talk about the loyalists leaving," the source close to Trump tells us. "What it really means is [that there'll be] fewer and fewer people who Trump knows who they really are. So imagine how paranoid you must be if that is your view of the world."
Well interestingly enough I was listening to previous White House insiders saying that at briefings they suspected leakers would note words others used to then use in a leak to turn the suspicion on others . The murky world of Politics is something to behold .
Agreed - while I got a gleeful bit of pleasure from reading the Times op-ed because I do not support President Trump, I am disturbed - the norms and customs of how the government should work are more important that Donald Trump. This kind of behavior in not serving the President and his agenda is actually quite damaging to the nation.
I wish we had not elected him. But we did. And so, following the framework of the Constitution, he has the rights and privileges of being President - he also has those responsibilities, however he understands them.
The Trump Administration is making us realize how much we reply on tradition, respect and decency, in addition to the Constitution, laws and legal precedent, to govern ourselves.
Spartacus seems the theme of the day
There's now a good chance Collins splits from the GOP ranks given the NYT emails about Roe v Wade!
OMG that is painful to watch
Totally. It is not "patriotic" to protect a mentally unstable president. It is an end around the constitution and fear of offending the Trump cult which GOP must have to win elections. It's a power grab by un-elected officials
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