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“[She] Believes That She Is A Hero”: Who Does Michael Caputo Think Wrote The Anonymous NYT Op-Ed?
Hotair ^
| 09/10/2018
| Allahpundit
Posted on 09/10/2018 1:40:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There’s little question that he’s talking about Nikki Haley, right? Among his clues:
1. The suspect is a she, not a he.
2. The suspect has denied writing the piece.
3. The suspect isn’t in the White House but is high up.
4. The suspect believes she should be president.
5. The suspect is known to rant about Trump and has “purged” her staff of Trump loyalists.
The only person “high up” in the administration who fits the first four criteria is Haley. Trump’s other women agency heads — Kirstjen Nielsen, Betsy DeVos, Elaine Chao, Gina Haspel — have no political ambitions.
The fifth criterion is trickier, as I can’t remember reading about Haley badmouthing Trump privately or “purging” MAGA true believers from the UN diplomatic staff. The idea that she secretly hates him is plausible, though: Haley endorsed Rubio and then Ted Cruz in the 2016 primaries rather than POTUS; she criticized Trump on the trail; she’s pushed a traditional hawkish anti-Russia message at the UN, sometimes giving Trump fits in doing so; and she’s brought in anti-Trumpers like Jon Lerner to be her deputies. Trump may have offered her the UN job *because* of her disdain, in fact, inviting her inside the tent so that she wouldn’t spend four years attacking him from the outside. I’m unaware of any “purges” of Trump staffers that she’s undertaken (two aides did quit early last year but neither was a hardcore Trumper from what I can tell), but maybe what Caputo means by “purge” is simply that she’s stuck to hiring people like Lerner. She’s not getting rid of Trumpers so much as never staffing up with them to begin with.
If you missed this post over the weekend, read it now. Caputo’s not the only Trump ally with suspicions about Team Haley. I find it hard to believe that a pol as savvy as her would gamble her 2024 prospects on fragging the president, though, especially now that she’s taken the extraordinary step of publishing her own op-ed attacking the author. How would that benefit her politically? Any goodwill she’s built up with Republican populists by serving in Trump’s administration would evaporate instantly. Anti-Trump Republicans would find her backstabbing and insubordination gross and her decision to write a second op-ed attacking the author of the NYT op-ed piece downright creepy in its deceitfulness. I think it might end her political career. It’s more likely that a deputy like Lerner wrote the op-ed, whether at her behest or not, but that’s hard for me to swallow too. After all, Haley will be suspected of having conspired with the op-ed author if he/she is a member of her UN team; she might end up being fired by Trump for it, and even if she isn’t, populists will never believe her protestations of innocence. Would a loyal Haleyite like Lerner really risk his boss’s career by taking the extraordinary step of stabbing Trump in the back — anonymously — in the NYT’s pages without her consent? C’mon.
Paint me a picture, then. Under what scenario would it benefit Haley to have written the NYT piece? If, conceivably, it can get her closer to the presidency then maybe it was worth doing. Step one: Haley is revealed as the author. Step two: ???? Step three: Haley wins GOP nomination! Fill in step two for me. The only thing I can come up with is if she believes Trump is headed for some sort of meltdown so catastrophic that even Trumpers will look back at the NYT op-ed with hindsight and marvel at the wisdom and patriotism of the author, clamoring to make him/her their new leader. But that’s unimaginable. No matter what Mueller comes up with, no matter how many mistresses turn out to have been paid off, no matter how many weird, impetuous policy moves Trump is revealed to have recommended, most Trumpers will stick with him. In a best-case scenario for Haley, there’ll be few enough of them left by 2024 to stop her from winning the primaries, but even then the risk that they’ll stay home in the general election will pose a major problem for her. Knifing their hero in the back simply isn’t a normal forgive-and-forget political sin. She’s better off being a good soldier for Trump publicly, earning some grudging respect from Trumpers, while continuing to run her old-school hawkish GOP operation at the UN, earning her respect from the rest of the party.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; mediawingofthednc; michaelcaputo; mikecaputo; nevertrump; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; newyorktimes; nikkihaley; oped; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; securitycouncil; smearmachine; unitednations; untiednations
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To: SeekAndFind
She has denied it
Bob wrote it
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posted on
09/10/2018 3:19:44 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: Vic S
.
>> “Has Fiona Hill been ruled out?” <<
No, she has been nailed, but the MSFNM is in overdrive trying to protect her.
They don’t want her damaged before they use her again.
.
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posted on
09/10/2018 3:20:23 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Lurkinanloomin
.
Minor vs Happersett didn’t really decide anything that wasn’t already understood, and it added confusion about those born in country, whose parents were not citizens.
This is the early foundation of the “Anchor Baby” lie.
The 14th amendment made it plain that the parents had to be here legally.
43
posted on
09/10/2018 3:26:42 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: apocalypto
She’s not to be trusted, but she’s too smart to expose herself like this.
She’s looking at 2024 for sure.
To: 1Old Pro
This is fake news, the times made this story and the fake writer up
________________________
I’m with you, Pro
45
posted on
09/10/2018 3:35:07 PM PDT
by
StAntKnee
(Add your own danged sarc tag)
To: Lurkinanloomin
It was a case about women’s right to vote in Missouri in 1875 and was, effectively, overruled by the 19th Amendment.
Even so, from that ruling: “it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”
If we ever need one, a simplified ruling would be that you are a natural-born citizen if the only thing you did to become a citizen was to be born.
46
posted on
09/10/2018 3:42:34 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(Trump has driven the Democrats and GOPe batshit crazy.)
To: SeekAndFind
It’s time to focus on Fiona Hill.
She should be asked to deny and be ready to take a polygraph test.
47
posted on
09/10/2018 3:44:01 PM PDT
by
detch
(")
To: libertylover
One is only naturally a citizen of the USA when one cannot be anything else.
People born with multiple citizenships are who the founders were excluding.
They specifically rejected Hamilton’s suggestion of “citizen at birth” as too broad, allowing for the entry of foreign influence to the office of President.
Natural born citizens only have one nationality.
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posted on
09/10/2018 3:47:54 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
To: SeekAndFind
Haley could conceivably become president someday ...
... if she's not the author of the op-ed.
If she is, Trump voters will never forgive her.
Therefore, it's not likely that she is the writer.
Look for somebody with little to lose and much to gain from writing the article.
Maybe somebody none of us have ever heard of.
Rule of thumb: Stefan Halper.
He was apparently a figure in Republican foreign policy circles, but nobody in the general public has ever heard of him.
Look for somebody like that (or someone even more obscure).
49
posted on
09/10/2018 3:54:30 PM PDT
by
x
To: grania
“Fiona Hills resume is so bad that one would think it was McCain who hired her.”
Or dubya for that matter... Case in point Harriet Myers.
50
posted on
09/10/2018 4:06:24 PM PDT
by
2CAVTrooper
(Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
To: SeekAndFind
51
posted on
09/10/2018 4:08:32 PM PDT
by
struggle
To: SeekAndFind
I don’t think it’s anybody important. If anybody wrote the op-ed, and though conservatives would vote for her over her betrayal, she would be delusional .
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posted on
09/10/2018 4:19:50 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
To: bigbob
“Prove it”????????
Who do you think I am?
How ‘bout, you prove me wrong?
However, did you read that part were I said: “Most likely: Kirstjen Nielsen” Notice I said, “most likely”, meaning that, it’s not a certainty, just like most guesses out here and elsewhere are “not certainties” either. Get it???
But, there is no doubt that Trump wasn’t/might-not-be happy with Kirsten’s handling of border security.
53
posted on
09/10/2018 4:26:36 PM PDT
by
adorno
To: 1FreeAmerican
“Also important to note that Obozos mother was NBC. This most likely is the tipping point to his eligibility question.”
On August 4, 1961, at the age of 18, dunham gave birth to the spawn of Satan.
At the age of 18, she could not legally convey citizenship to the little bastard since the law clearly states that one or both parents must not only be citizens (natural born or naturalized) but must also be five years past the age of fourteen to legally convey citizenship.
54
posted on
09/10/2018 4:33:26 PM PDT
by
2CAVTrooper
(Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
To: Lurkinanloomin
I doubt the courts would agree with you.
55
posted on
09/10/2018 4:35:10 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(Trump has driven the Democrats and GOPe batshit crazy.)
To: libertylover
Maybe not, they seem to think infanticide and sodomy are rights.
56
posted on
09/10/2018 4:40:06 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
To: SeekAndFind
57
posted on
09/10/2018 5:09:24 PM PDT
by
catnipman
((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
To: SeekAndFind
Is Haley a McCainiac? Rush said the anonymous writer praised McCain.
To: far sider
South Carolina Republican officeholders are all Cheap Labor Express stooges, she backed Rubio, who is also one.
59
posted on
09/10/2018 5:13:51 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
To: SeekAndFind
allahpundit is an atheist who is a MAJOR anti-trumper who works for a big-time anti-trump outfit, hotair.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allahpundit
posting allahpundit here serves little purpose other than to lend additional credibility to his articles, and he should therefore be banned here ... at least with posts from CNN, WaPo, NYT and the like, it’s worthwhile to see what propaganda is being spewed out to the world ... on a national level, though, allahpundit is a big fat zero, so serves no purpose but to waste bandwidth ...
60
posted on
09/10/2018 5:15:51 PM PDT
by
catnipman
((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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