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I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
NYTimes ^

Posted on 09/05/2018 1:07:30 PM PDT by son of terrence

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. I would know. I am one of them.

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at apple.news ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2018; election2020; mediawingofthednc; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nytoped; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; resistance; saboteur; smearmachine; trumpadministration
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To: son of terrence

every week The Slimes stoops to a new low ... an entire editorial based on an “anonymous source” ... really?


161 posted on 09/05/2018 2:06:54 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: 2CAVTrooper

That’s true; however, this could have been done sub rosa...IF it was done at all and not just more stupid propaganda.


162 posted on 09/05/2018 2:08:37 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: MarMema

The over-the-top, posthumous McCain knob-polishing really makes the author look like a Deep State axe-grinder rather than a legitimately concerned person who sees real danger.


163 posted on 09/05/2018 2:08:46 PM PDT by StoneRainbow68
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To: son of terrence
President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.

And all because of a bunch of seditionist mental juveniles who could not grasp that the American people rejected their candidate and their ideals, and are now trying to execute a coup with military involvement if they can sucker people into it.

The protestations of these wankers, of which the NYT is a prime example, bring us as close to a second civil war as we have come since the first, and all this because they couldn't accept that they were in the minority by Constitutional measures.

We are a Republic and not a Democracy, something years of education and years of practical living have not taught them as of yet. The differences are important, and yet despite reciting the Pledge of Allegiance or at least hearing it thousands of times, these people still don't grasp the significance of, "We pledge Allegiance to the REPUBLIC of the United States of America...".

And yet they want us to believe they know how to run a nation they don't have even the fundamentals to grasp.

NYT, you are pushing your luck. Sedition is still on the books, and one day we may actually have an attorney general again, who is not on life support.

164 posted on 09/05/2018 2:08:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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To: Yo-Yo

HORSEFEATHERS!


165 posted on 09/05/2018 2:09:19 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Fake Polls / Partisan Media Shills / DNC Incitements to Riot ping.

166 posted on 09/05/2018 2:09:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: DarthVader

Found out quotes in Woodward book were from McMaster and dina Powell and others, this piece of b.s is probably McMaster and his cronies.


167 posted on 09/05/2018 2:09:29 PM PDT by magamomma
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To: vetvetdoug

I’m expecting somebody from Reddit to figure out who the squealer is within 48 hours.


168 posted on 09/05/2018 2:09:42 PM PDT by CaptainK ("no collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker")
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To: hsmomx3

oh... good guess.


170 posted on 09/05/2018 2:09:45 PM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: nopardons

In Trump’s defense on Sessions, I humbly assert we ALL thought Sessions would make a great AG. He came across as a fighting conservative. He’s a huge let down but surprisingly so.


171 posted on 09/05/2018 2:09:49 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: son of terrence
This manufactured "Opinion Piece" is an ultimate example of Fake News.

The New York Times is attempting to cause an actual mental breakdown in the leader of our country.

There needs to be arrests made.


172 posted on 09/05/2018 2:09:49 PM PDT by henbane (Obama still holds the 7th floor of U.S. Justice Department--AG Sessions AWOL!!)
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To: snarkytart

Nothing in our world is hidden today. Trump should do nothing before a complete review by trusted agents. If it is true, which I doubt, the party needs to be held accountable. I agree with the comments that this is a gas lighting attempt by the NYT.

DJT should- Strip clearances from retired workers, relocate federal offices throughout the country and declassify Weiner’s laptop.


173 posted on 09/05/2018 2:10:26 PM PDT by son of terrence
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To: Fido969

Rosenstein doesn’t work in the White House, this person does.


174 posted on 09/05/2018 2:10:42 PM PDT by Coronal
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To: magamomma

Deep state moles. I suspect that there are a few others.


175 posted on 09/05/2018 2:11:31 PM PDT by DarthVader ("The biggest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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To: DoughtyOne

Correcton:

“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”, should be rendered by standing at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. When not in uniform men should remove any non-religious headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Persons in uniform should remain silent, face the flag, and render the military salute.”


176 posted on 09/05/2018 2:12:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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To: son of terrence

An anonymous source in the New York Slimes?

PEGGED MY BULLSHIT METER!


177 posted on 09/05/2018 2:12:28 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: son of terrence

Find all of these traitors, line them up, feed into industrial strength wood chipper.


178 posted on 09/05/2018 2:12:35 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: txrefugee
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179 posted on 09/05/2018 2:15:14 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: son of terrence
There are hundreds of left over obummer appointees, embedded bureaucrats, that could do this.

As for a "senior official" that is for the sake of drama. Anyone who would write such drivel has to have a high opinion of their GS-5 self.

180 posted on 09/05/2018 2:15:46 PM PDT by pfflier
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