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The Times’s Opinion desk has taken the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay.
We did 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.
I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
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.
Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright.
In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the “enemy of the people,” President Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.
This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state.
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. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.
originally posted by: olaru12
a reply to: burntheships
Is it crooked Hillary again this time? I bet it is.
originally posted by: burntheships
originally posted by: olaru12
a reply to: burntheships
Is it crooked Hillary again this time? I bet it is.
Nah, she is too busy fretting over losing Michigan.
It's probably Jame Comey Homey....
originally posted by: soberbacchus
a reply to: burntheships
Lindsay Graham is not a "Senior Trump Administration Official". He is a Senator
originally posted by: burntheships
originally posted by: olaru12
Nope, Kelly Ann....wanna bet?
Could be, but no bet because I read it and
they had to hide a writing style.
So...that only leaves a handful of people,
I don't think it is her but could be.
originally posted by: burntheships
originally posted by: olaru12
Nope, Kelly Ann....wanna bet?
Could be, but no bet because I read it and
they had to hide a writing style.
So...that only leaves a handful of people,
I don't think it is her but could be.
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. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.
originally posted by: soberbacchus
a reply to: burntheships
That really says nothing.
I don't think Trump is capable of "surveiling" anyone.