The content is a CLONE of the Woodward book excerpts, and may have been concocted purely to trigger Trump and portray utter chaos to affect the elections, as well as distracting Trump by forcing him to clean house, screen emails and calls, check for recording devices, etc.
It’s likely a concoction of the all the Woodward “deep background” BS made by someone such as a junior staffer from the McMaster days that no one could fire because of civil service rules. Remember, Omarossa says she was a “White House aide” but her job, in reality, was throwing parties whenever state delegations were in town.
Agreed. Smells like a head-fake concocted by Woodward et al.
Then the Times will be forced to admit it's fake, and will lose face in front of the whole world.
Elsewhere, I saw a post indicating that the President has already initiated an investigation to get to the bottom of this.
If so, the Times is screwed either way.
I don’t think there is any “official” behind this likely work of fiction.
Why would you think it’s fiction? We just saw at the Kavanaugh hearing a sitting US Senator take a not so veiled shot at a POTUS of his own party. Why would you think there would be any different attitude amongst some of the beltway careerists on his staff? As long as elected members of the GOP are greening lighting these type of attacks on POTUS it will certainly continue.
I think you the nail on the head. Just a restatement of Woodard and Bernstein’ book.