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We're Watching an Anti-Democratic Coup Unfold
The Atlantic ^ | September 5, 2018 | David A. Graham

Posted on 09/05/2018 4:40:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Acts of sabotage against the president are perilous to the American system of government. They're also self-serving.

The title of Bob Woodward’s new book, Fear, contains a multitude of meanings. For one thing, it describes the attitude of many of President Trump’s own aides toward his judgment.

It’s not just that many sources were willing to tell Woodward damaging stories about Trump: The most stunning examples are those where top aides reportedly thwarted his will. Even more stunning is an anonymous op-ed published in The New York Times Wednesday afternoon written by a purported “senior official in the Trump administration.”

The writer says that senior Trump officials “are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. I would know. I am one of them.” The official adds: “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.”

The op-ed is so bizarre that it is tempting to dismiss it as fantasy—akin to the obviously bogus Twitter accounts that flourished early in the administration claiming to be by saboteurs inside the White House. (While the Times has likely done its homework, expect the president to question the veracity of the source.) Yet what the anonymous official says lines up closely with the accounts in Woodward’s book, in which officials steal documents, act on their own, and simply disregard orders from the president....

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Each headline bashing Trump reinforces my support for him.
I know now how I will vote no matter what the NYTimes and
CNN report.


101 posted on 09/05/2018 8:22:09 PM PDT by Joe Bfstplk (How unfortunate tarring and feathering was abandoned.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pretty soon it will be time to go Luca Brasi on these seditionous lowlifes.


102 posted on 09/05/2018 8:22:42 PM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There is a coordinated front against the constitution being propelled by the deep state. All the releases of disinformation from questionable sources. A bogus collusion investigation, which is really a means of eliminating President Trumps associates. No investigation of obvious Democratic party collusion. Nor United kingdom’s attempt to derail the USAs election. To advance Socialist suppression in our country. Citizens we are watching a treasonous coup. Will American minute men stand for this? What action should we the People take?


103 posted on 09/05/2018 8:24:24 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Lazamataz; LS; bitt

Maybe this anonymous source can go back to Alicia Machado to hit on The President.

I for one wouldn’t mind a few pics of her in the news rather than *sswipes like Adam Schiff and Rod Rosenstein.

;-)

104 posted on 09/05/2018 8:29:08 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties hold more worth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: a little elbow grease

Speaking of elbow grease, please careful not to give yourself carpal tunnel, or to go blind!


105 posted on 09/05/2018 8:37:08 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: rbg81
Remember that Woodward was the guy who supposedly got a detailed interview out of CIA Director Casey while he was in the hospital in a coma.

Good catch.

106 posted on 09/05/2018 8:39:51 PM PDT by GOPJ (Republicans act like they're at a country club- Democrats like they're at a boxing match. Starboard)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I voted for, and helped to elect Trump.

If the op-ed is authentic, the author is undermining one of three branches of our government. He or she must be found, along with their accomplices, and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Enough of this garbage!

I DID NOT VOTE FOR THESE EGOMANIACS.

107 posted on 09/05/2018 8:42:52 PM PDT by griffin
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To: originalbuckeye; Liz
In the prologue to Woodward’s book, obtained by The Atlantic, the economic adviser Gary Cohn conspires to swipe a letter from the president’s desk terminating the United States–Korea Free Trade Agreement. Cohn considered it a danger to national security, so he grabbed it.

“I stole it off his desk,” Cohn told an associate, according to Woodward. “I wouldn’t let him see it. He's never going to see that document. Got to protect the country.”

Looks like we've found one member of the cabal... Gary Cohn... now to find the others...

108 posted on 09/05/2018 8:45:12 PM PDT by GOPJ (Republicans act like they're at a country club- Democrats like they're at a boxing match. Starboard)
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To: lyby

I’m sorry for your loss.


109 posted on 09/05/2018 8:49:22 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Washington is NOT a swamp.....It's a cesspool!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Journalistic ethics = OXYMORON!


110 posted on 09/05/2018 8:58:13 PM PDT by 2harddrive (Go to www.CodeIsFreeSpeech.com for 10 FREE 3D-printer gun blueprints!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The anonymous critic’s statements line up with the anonymous official’s, because the author of both is Bob Woodward. Easy peasy.


112 posted on 09/05/2018 11:49:55 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
LOL - we do know who was deep throat. It was never made up. Mark Felt and we also knew during Watergate it wasn't made up since the leaks were correct.

Not certain why you promote a lie.

113 posted on 09/06/2018 1:24:04 AM PDT by Dave W
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To: TXSearcher

We might as well give up on elections, because they will just take out anyone that isn’t approved of by the deep state actors. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Well, then begins Civil War II. And it won’t last that long once the sanctuary cities are conquered.


114 posted on 09/06/2018 2:31:21 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

Sounds like some Deep State official using State Dept. as a cover


115 posted on 09/06/2018 2:38:29 AM PDT by RonnG ( v)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is probably what drove the anonymous “I work for Trump and want him to succeed but am doing what I can to screw him” article.....


116 posted on 09/06/2018 3:28:26 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Woodward made up Deep Throat and it won him a Pulitzer.”

One thing I’d love to see before I go to Glory is to have the truth come out about Watergate, and what it really was about. To have Woodward and Bernstein be proven to be the charlatans they are would be sweeeet.

To have that happen would completely take the wind out of the sails of the Dems. They might STFU for maybe a year.


117 posted on 09/06/2018 3:41:10 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: sergeantdave

“It’s a last-ditch effort to make the traitors feel good about themselves. It doesn’t matter.”

And it’s a way to sow discord and distrust within Trump’s ranks. Just one more way to weaken MAGA — or attempt to.


118 posted on 09/06/2018 3:45:29 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“We’re Watching an Anti-Democratic Coup Unfold”

I wonder if the Observer General is enjoying the spectacle as much as we are.


119 posted on 09/06/2018 4:27:49 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well no. Deep Throat was Mark Felt assistant director of the FBI who was disgruntled when he was not appointed director, by Nixon upon Hoo ers death.


120 posted on 09/06/2018 4:37:54 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. O)
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