Someone wrote an anonymous op-ed in the New York Times titled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.”
“The root of the problem is the president’s amorality,” writes the author. “Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.” The author notes that even though Trump “was elected as a Republican.” He “shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people.”
Although the anonymous writer said that Trump is immoral, he did do some good things. “Effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more,” were “bright spots.” “Sure, he’s an amoral monster, but at least we cut taxes for rich people and spend more on bombs now,” writes Rafi Schwartz to the absurd idea that there’s anything to consider as a “bright spot.”
“The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility,” writes the asshole who wants to not be viewed as an asshole. Furthermore, trying to pass the buck on to all of us, and not blame Trump or his supporters.
Never-Trumper Rick Wilson has asked the anonymous writer to go publican, and their “only value now is to bring down the entire system.”
If this person tries to remain anonymous, they won’t remain so for long:
Finally, you know you're going to get caught. I know, I know. You thought were being careful. You used the burner phone. You used Signal. You kept all your contacts off-campus. Your opsec was decent, but the odds you'll get caught are astronomical. As much as there's an underground of people in this White House trying to save us from Trump's excesses, there's a broader culture of snitches, informants, ass-kissers, and bad actors who will rat you out in a hot minute.
It’s okay. You should welcome it. It's your chance to do the actual right thing, finally. Get out before they bust you. Build an exfil plan and a message plan, and execute it. If you’re the kind of person who has access to unclassified emails and documents that bolster the case, you should have as many of them on a thumb drive as you can. Anecdotal stories are great, but records are the gold standard.
Steven Pike would agree with Rick Wilson that this person needs to do more, if they want to consider themselves as someone a part of “the resistance.” “President Trump is correct about one thing,” writes Pike. “The senior administration official who wrote that op-ed is gutless. Worse, he or she is violation his or her own oath to protect, preserve and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
This op-ed writer will get caught, because Donald Trump is hell bent on figuring out who this person is. “Jeff should be investigating who the author of that piece was because I really believe it’s national security,” said president Trump. If they have a high-level security clearance, “I don’t want him in those meetings.”
The problem for Donald Trump is that the one who wrote the op-ed is not alone, and he knows it. According to Axios, Trump refers to those inside his administration that may not be loyal to him as “snakes.”
“I find the reaction to the NYT op-ed fascinating-that people seem so shocked that there is a resistance from the inside,” a senior official was reportedly to have told Axios. “A lot of us (were) wishing we’d been the writer, I suspect.. I hope he (Trump) knows- maybe he does?- that there are dozens and dozens of us.”
Trump does know this, and it’s driving him ever more insane than he already is:
“He would basically be like, ‘We’ve gotta get rid of them. The snakes are everywhere but we’re getting rid of them,” said a source close to Trump.
For a man who claimed that he would hire the best people, and drain the swamp. He seems to not being doing a good job at that, and anyone with a brain should have understood from the beginning that Donald Trump’s White House was going to be a complete and utter shit show.
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