Posted on 09/05/2018 3:01:56 PM PDT by jazusamo
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders ripped the anonymous senior White House staffer who wrote an op-ed for the New York Times slamming President Trump’s conduct.
“The individual behind this piece has chosen to deceive, rather than support, the duly elected President of the United States,” she said in a statement. “He is not putting country first, but putting himself and his ego ahead of the will of the American people.”
This coward should do the right thing and resign,” she added.
The statement follows criticism from Trump himself, who called the op-ed’s author “gutless.”
The author of the op-ed wrote that there are multiple people in the administration who are acting as a check on the president’s “misguided impulses.”
“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,” the staffer writes.
The White House aide says meetings with Trump often “veer off topic and off the rails” and slams the president as “amoral.”
“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,” the staffer says.
Any successes from the White House “have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective,” the author wrote.
he adds.
Sanders’ statement also issued a defense of the president.
“President Trump has laid out a bold and ambitious agenda. Every day since taking office, he has fulfilled the promises he made. His accomplishments in less than two years have been astounding,” she said.
The Trump administration has repeatedly railed against The New York Times, slamming it as “fake news” and labeling it the “failing” New York Times.
“We are disappointed, but not surprised, that the paper chose to publish this pathetic, reckless and selfish op-ed. This is a new low for the so-called ‘paper of record,’ and it should issue an apology…This is just another example of the liberal media’s concerted effort to discredit the president,” Sanders said.
bttt
The NYT will say McCain’s the source.
With the info at the WH’s disposal, I’m sure they know.
My bet it’s fake, but they’re treating it as if the source is real so it’ll look that much worse for the NYT when the truth gets out.
You’re just lazy and trying to have an argument over a very simple query of mine. Pity that you are unable to articulate a few simple, over wrought, biased, stupid calumnies that have been out there for years.
Grow up!
So far you’re the only one talking about looks. Maybe they are like anonymous and not coming out.
You can't, or won't take a stand for your anti-Trump post, refuse to answer a very simple question, and are just a childish game player. And your last sentence is not only pathetic, but nonsensical.
Say what you like. It doesn’t pierce my armor. But for being a childish game player, I sure found someone just as childish to play along. Cool, eh?
I think the “coward” is an NYT employee.
You must be an extremely lonesome, bored, unhappy person. Pity that...go play in traffic.
I do wonder why you mess around with a game player. Maybe it's you who is lonesome, bored or unhappy? Maybe all three? But, please. Don't recklessly play in the traffic.
she already resigned, it was amorosa.
It’s fun to keep poking one, such as you, and keep on hitting exposed nerves. You can claim that it doesn’t bother you, but it does! Otherwise you would not bother with the childish replies, trying to ignore the fact that YOU made an anti-Trump comment and refuse to answer a very simple question about that. You’re just like any other dim lefty, using the same silly tactics.
But in all seriousness, it doesn't bother me. It's really sort of entertaining. So please, keep lobbing it my way.
Your serve.
You’re just a boring little nothing, who now needs to toddle away and sit in your safe space, contemplating your toes.
Close, but not quite the cigar. Cmon. You can do better.
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