Posted on 09/06/2018 8:35:21 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - Michael R. Caputo says he knows who it is. The strategist and WBEN contributor says a woman wrote the scathing Op-Ed piece in the New York Times that has set Washington ablaze.
"I know who she is. It's a woman and I'm kind of cautious. My attorney is trying to keep me from saying her name" said Caputo.
He thinks it's an administrative coup. "Whenever this person decided to write this Op-Ed, they should have stood up with the courage of their convictions and quit, but unfortunately we have a coward in the administration's senior ranks" he said. Caputo, a former Trump staffer, said it's a name people are familiar with, adding ,"eventually she will be found out".
"If you read closely, you'll see it's very cleverly written. That's why the whole parlor game about who she is, is really entertaining". Caputo says the Op-Ed was written by a snake. "They use words like lodestar, which sends you directly to Vice President Pence. And then it uses words like off-the-rails , which sends you directly to General Kelly".
"The Times, I have my disagreements with", said Caputo. "The fact that it comes from a senior administration official gives it some weight. I don't blame the New York Times for doing it. They're certainly going to make some good money off of it".
Michael Caputo Interview: 10 min.
“Nikki Haley was not always on board either. I know she’s been terrific at the UN, but I don’t completely trust her.”
I’ve always been on the fence with Haley too. I’m not a big fan of the UN either as I think it’s a NWO sham. Haley was a never-Trumper and she palled around with McCaine and Bill Kristol. When Kristol tweeted out he just got off the phone with the NYTs “anonymous official” (he or she) I immediately thought of Nikki.
Hope my hunch is wrong and it’s just made up b.s. from all parties who claim to be in the know.
It’s just a smokescreen to detract attention from the FISA scandal that’s coming..................
Another possibility, if the writer is a woman, may be Ali Watkins. Isn’t she part of the oldest profession?
Who was always pro-illegal alien immigration
It’s very interesting how this ‘one single’ anonymous op-ed has so many doubting and wondering who is who to trust or not.......a disinformation strategy..... dems use 75% of their time.....’mission accomplished’.... It’s not about who wrote it......it’s all about creating suspicion and doubt in the administration and those who support it.
This ny times op ed reminded me of 5 day old bloomberg op ed ...”Trump’s ‘Adults in the Room’ Should Stay There
There’s no shame in trying to keep the president from acting on his own worst impulses”
I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
The op-ed title says "am" vice was and "work" vice worked. It is not Omeroso.
Yep, mine, too. WHAT A CROCK, all this for Omerosa, lol. I sure hope Tucker comes through tonight and names her. Last night he said he thought he knew.
I don’t know who it is, if anyone, but it’s clearly someone in the GOPe sphere not someone That came with TRUMP...
Said from the beginning Trump will have to fight the entrenched establishment of BOTH parties.. frankly I am amazed how successful he’s been.
Huntsman is our Ambassador in Moscow. How active can he be inside the WH? Have you read the op-ed?
I think the NYT just got caught making crap up. They will attribute it eventually John McCain in order to save their butts.
Read the Opinion piece again. It easily could be written by an outsider with communication to the White House staff. The example they highlight is Russian Foreign policy. He definitely would be in constant communication with this staff at a minimum.
I re-read the piece and nothing convinces me he is not in day to day communication. Huntsmen’s own words. We set policy.
If you have occasion to visit us in Moscow, I will introduce you to hundreds of colleagues, who are the most highly trained in their field with years of experience working in Russia. Representatives of our foreign service, civil service, military and intelligence services have neither the time nor inclination to obsess over politics, though the issues of the day are felt by all. Their focus is on the work that needs to be done to stabilize the most dangerous relationship in the world, one that encompasses nuclear weapons, fighting terrorism, stopping bloodshed in Ukraine, and seeking a settlement of the seemingly intractable Syrian crisis. Their dedication to service to their country is above politics, and it inspires me to the core. It is my standard.
Jon Huntsman is the definition of smarmy.
That has been my take as well...fits perfectly with the nyt's cowardly operation.
People act as if phones and telecommunication does not exist. The Russian Embassy has hundreds of support personnel, both foreign and domestic. It requires everything from videoconferencing to basic emails. But, the ambassador must maintain constant communication with the Whitehouse.
Nothing in the OpEd indicated that the person served inside the Whitehouse, just that he communicated with the staff.
Jon Huntsmen checks a lot of boxes and thinks it his responsibility to protect the world from politicians.
Whoever wrote it is experiencing Writer’s Reward feelings right now. The piece is viral and everyone is talking about it. A writer loves that the way an actor loves applause.
With that in mind, expect a slip up by the writer, the way bank robbers or killers end up boasting about it in an unguarded moment.
Bill Kristol is an arrogant snake. I didn’t know he tweeted that - he must be pretty full of himself about now. He wants attention for talking to a traitor. Ok.
I am hoping this is a bunch of made up crap. I can’t see the point of anyone who is working in the administration doing this. If they feel they are serving the country by doing this, why would they tell the NYT about it? This only serves to help push the Article 25 narrative, so it has to be a never-Trumper. If that’s the case, my money’s on Haley.
I spent 28 years as a foreign service officer. As an ambassador, Huntsman would be in regular contact with the State Department (Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasia Affairs and the Russian desk officer.) Even political appointee ambassadors are not in regular contact with the WH. They would be circumventing the Secretary of State. Pompeo would never stand for it.
When I read the op-ed, I am struck by a number of phrases that indicate to me that it was written by someone who considers themselves to be a "true conservative" in much the same way the National Review dedicated an entire issue criticizing Trump for not being a conservative.
For example,
"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. I am sure this person dislikes the renegotiation of NAFTA and dropping out of TPP.
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. The RINOs and conservatives are free trade advocates. They are globalists when it comes to trade and not economic nationalists.
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. Only hardcore conservatives use terms like first principles."
Take foreign policy: In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations. No doubt a dislike of Trump's treatment of NATO.
If this is an authentic piece from someone within the Administration, I would be looking for a National Review/ Bill Kristol type conservative. This is not an Obama holdover or someone with leftist motivations.
I agree. Not Haley. She uses bigger words and she knows what words mean. The person who wrote it thinks they are smarter than they are. What we are reading in actuality is a child-level rant.
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from the beginning..25th Amendment - implies that the author is not basing their opinion on how Trump has acted during his term, but a predetermined judgement prior to his presidency
lodestar - brings to mind Romania, first foreign country to use Lodestar GPS.
A-moral - not a term Americans use much in daily language - we use either immoral or moral to describe persons as bad or good and a-moral usually refers to things that act or exist without considering morals. (asteroids are amoral, corporations are amoral, Alexander the Great’s campaigns are discussed amorally, Startrek’s Spock was, argueably, amoral). The author meant amoral as an insult, demonstrating the author is not well versed in proper English and was too lazy to look up the meaning.
Robert Lewis Stevenson, who is credited with coining the term in modern language, defines amoral as acting in a non-emotional and “healthy” practical way, absent of individual preference, focused on a positive end result (in other words, using logic over emotion):
“”There is a vast deal in life and letters both which is not immoral, but simply a-moral; which either does not regard the human will at all, or deals with it in obvious and healthy relations; where the interest turns, not upon what a man shall choose to do, but on how he manages to do it; not on the passionate slips and hesitations of the conscience, but on the problems of the body and of the practical intelligence, in clean, open-air adventure, the shock of arms or the diplomacy of life”.
all this brings to mind Peter the squirmer.
That totally adds up; she is a cabinet secretary ONLY to get Mitchie to nominally do SOMETHING for the administration in the senate, and Mitchie is a long time swamp denizen and an original "Never Trumper".
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