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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

Strange how “crazy” seems to entirely overlap with, “America First”.


61 posted on 09/05/2018 5:43:49 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: bantam
Early on in the administration it came down to President Trump choosing between the Bannon-Gorka axis, or the Ivanka-Jared axis. He chose poorly.
 
62 posted on 09/05/2018 5:44:03 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.")
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To: LeoWindhorse

Concur. This is sedition.


63 posted on 09/05/2018 5:49:21 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: wardamneagle

And those top Trump aids have bluntly and publicly stated that the author of this book is a bald faced liar and then did not, ever or in anyway, make the comments he said they did.

This is must another anti Trump liar doing what liars do, telling lies for profit.


64 posted on 09/05/2018 5:52:12 PM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Fellow Patriots: What you are about to learn should not only scare you, but intensify your resolve to take back control [Freedom]. The information that will become public will further demonstrate the criminal & corrupt [pure evil] abuse of power that the Hussein administration undertook in joint efforts w/ domestic and foreign dignitaries. The snowball has begun rolling - there is no stopping it now. D5. Stay the course and trust the plan. Protective measures are in place. Remain BRAVE. We knew this day would come. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2qIXXafxCQ📁 United We Stand (WW). WWG1WGA. We FIGHT. Conspiracy no more. Q
65 posted on 09/05/2018 5:52:23 PM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: sergeantdave

so tired of bs talk about being hanging and such.

we can’t even get these antifa idiots put in their place. you really think anyone is going to hang for this?

stop using hyperbole and get with real talk.


66 posted on 09/05/2018 5:54:52 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

Exactly. The focus on that is telling. This is a neocon nevertrump who fits the bill of some of these fanatic types


67 posted on 09/05/2018 6:02:41 PM PDT by ALX
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To: mountainlion
This whole thing looks carefully orchestrated...

After YEARS of watching the Alinsky tactics of the left: Woodward's book, NY Slimes Anonymous article and Graham/Frum's sudden concern about a coup crisis while also asking anonymous to come forward to save the Constitution/country, is a big RED FLAG.

Will it work? Depends on if they have an operative(s) in the White House that are willing to fall on their swords and lie like dogs, in the hopes of taking Trump down with some type of insaniity/danger charge.

On a side note, if this IS their next line of attack, I would say that it's very possible that Muellar's informed them that he doesn't have any smoking gun after all his Russian investigation crap.

68 posted on 09/05/2018 6:06:51 PM PDT by TXSearcher (Interesting times we live in...........)
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To: originalbuckeye

Maybe Woodward was exposed as a liar and this is a feeble attempt to save his book sales


69 posted on 09/05/2018 6:08:23 PM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: MarMema

Well of course they are. It is gospel to them.


70 posted on 09/05/2018 6:12:40 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sure...Bob Woodward..is a lying POS. Trying to be relevant ..and make money.


71 posted on 09/05/2018 6:18:34 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

President Trump is a once in a lifetime absolute genius. He beat them at their own game. They are playing checkers and he is playing chess like Magnus Carlson.


72 posted on 09/05/2018 6:30:56 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer to drink a bunch of them. Stay thirsty my FRiends)
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To: robowombat

“Process is More Important than Product.”

In other words, “Never solving the problem allows us to keep our phony-baloney jobs ad infinitum.”

To paraphrase Mel Brooks.


73 posted on 09/05/2018 6:32:56 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is why you clean house when you take over. No reaching across the aisle ever. All a commie will do when you reach across is cut your throat.


74 posted on 09/05/2018 6:34:35 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: snarkytart

“Ywe can’t even get these antifa idiots put in their place. you really think anyone is going to hang for this?”

I don’t expect that you’re aware of this, but 10 of obama’s racist BLM goons are sitting in state prison, serving 5 to 10 years in state prison for inciting riots in South Carolina. They were prosecuted under the state’s anti-klan laws.

The propaganda press embargoed the story and refused to release it nationally.

I’m trying to temper my reaction, but I get really ticked off at people who state as fact that these leftist pigs will never be punished for their crap.

Leftists are getting their nuts stomped into the concrete when they try to pull crap in the south. The neo-Nazi press will never report this because it would demoralize their side. And when TSHF, the leftists will hang.


75 posted on 09/05/2018 6:36:20 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Yep,the 58 percent who don’t despise PT now know that the Deep State is true.


76 posted on 09/05/2018 6:36:42 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy UP!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
what the anonymous official says lines up closely with the accounts in Woodward’s book

A good indicator that the nyt op-ed is fake.

77 posted on 09/05/2018 6:37:19 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance
based on made up crap about poisonings.

Thank you!

Russia doesn't botch assassinations. They follow through and get the job done.

Sergei and Yulia Skripal, on deaths' door, victims of a certainly fatal nerve agent poisoning carried out by Russian agents under Putin's orders. Miraculously, they both fully recover!

Not Russia.

78 posted on 09/05/2018 6:39:50 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: bantam

I think that he is boxed in, and the deep state has paralyzed him.


79 posted on 09/05/2018 6:41:13 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists fascists today plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives soon)
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To: pgyanke
They are following this gameplan with Trump and it’s very worrying.

These people believe that if we get rid of Trump, we'll return to The Way Things Were Before, as if MAGA never happened.

They couldn't be more wrong. There's no going back.

Force out President Trump and put a uniparty swamp dweller in his place and there's going to be consequences.

80 posted on 09/05/2018 6:43:45 PM PDT by Drew68
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