Maybe they got advice from this fellow..
Posted on 09/05/2018 6:03:34 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The New York Times op-ed page editor Jim Dao on Wednesday described the process behind publishing a bombshell op-ed from an anonymous senior administration official, telling CNN that the official contacted him “through an intermediary.”
Dao said the Times also spoke directly with the individual but there are only a "very small number of people within the Times who know this person's identity.”
The op-ed, published Wednesday afternoon, described coordinated efforts among Trump administration staff to counter President Trump.
The Times described the anonymous author in a note as "a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure."
The senior administration official that purportedly wrote it criticized Trump for his "amorality" and wrote that while officials “want the administration to succeed,” they have had to work against Trump’s “misguided impulses” and parts of his agenda.
Dao said the official reached out “several days ago” but didn’t reveal identifying details to CNN. Dao did not provide the person’s gender, although the author was described in a New York Times tweet as a “he” earlier Wednesday.
He added that the newspaper has “taken a number of special precautions to protect the person's identity” but wouldn’t be more specific, CNN reported.
"We were simply trying to abide by the standard that the Times in general would use when referring to someone who's not named," he told CNN.
Trump and the White House on Wednesday blasted the editorial, with the president calling it “gutless” and the White House press secretary calling on the anonymous official to resign.
"Does the so-called “Senior Administration Official” really exist, or is it just the Failing New York Times with another phony source?" Trump tweeted Wednesday evening. "If the GUTLESS anonymous person does indeed exist, the Times must, for National Security purposes, turn him/her over to government at once!"
NYT is a joke. Has been, still is. Nobody takes them seriously (well, nobody with an IQ).
NYT is a joke. Has been, still is. Nobody takes them seriously (well, nobody with an IQ).
Maybe they got advice from this fellow..
nobody cares. POTUS should try to find out who it is and kick their asses to the curb.
However, one more deep state lawyer in the government who hates Trump.
HO HUM.
next.
First, realizing we were running out of pages in our politics of personal destruction playbook, someone said “that Woodward and Bernstein thing worked didn’t it?”
So we talked about we brought them in and talked about a phony book and phony reporting when Bernstein said “the reason we were so successful was the Deep Throat play.”
That’s where the original idea came from.
After that, we...
Everyone gets a free lie detector test.
The President is the one who has given this traction now. Seems like a huge overreaction to me, even if true. The op- ed does state Cabinet officials discussed the 25th Amendment and that makes the piece suspect as it all so familiar in tone. I find it bizarre this far into his Presidency he still reacts to Fake News outlets his voters could give a rats arse about..Je legitimized this drivel.
It’s all redoing Watergate.
That would make a nice meme.
He did, unfortunately pay it too much attention.
He needs to understand these people are trying to get a reaction and make him look paranoid.
He should have waited and quietly did some research before tweeting about it.
Don’t give things life.
Anonymous source = lies.
These morons are playing a very dangerous game that is going to blow up in their faces.
No one
It already did, they just proved that their IS a deep state trying to subvert PT. Haaaaa!
The President is the one who has given this traction now. Seems like a huge overreaction to me, even if true.
I hope Trump doesn’t let the Slimes divert his attention from MAGA.
Let’s hope it does.
Could be all fiction to keep new book on the Best Sellers List.
Foghorn Leghorn:
Lookit here son, I say son, did ya see that hawk after those hens? He scared ‘em! That Rhode Island Red turned white. Then blue. Rhode Island. Red, white, and blue. That’s a joke, son. A flag waver. You’re built too low. The fast ones go over your head. Ya got a hole in your glove. I keep pitchin’ ‘em and you keep missin’ ‘em. Ya gotta keep your eye on the ball. Eye. Ball. I almost had a gag, son. Joke, that is.
Was this from Comey via a college professor.....again?
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