The New York Times just an hour ago published a stunning op-ed from an anonymous senior official in the Trump administration, detailing its disturbing realities. Here's the opening:
"President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.
It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.
The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
I would know. I am one of them.It gets more chilling from there, with the official saying that fellow appointees are trying to insulate their agencies from his irrational whims:
"From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims.The author mentions that the 25th Amendment which is designed to remove an impaired President has been discussed at the highest levels of his administration:
Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back." (our emphasis)
"Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.It appears that someone took the memorial eulogies for John McCain to heart before they sat down to write this piece. It confirms every excerpt we're read from Bob Woodward's "Fear" and even Omorosa's "Unhinged." Too bad it took anonymity to produce it. As Trump becomes more isolated and under siege, expect more of this type of manifesto getting out.
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." (our emphasis)
6 comments:
Bottom line is no one is doing a damn thing about trump. How bad does it have to get before "the highest levels" do something. I want to see heads on pikes.
Anon. -- If Trump finds a way to get around his "handlers" and precipitates a major crisis (military, economic) that may compel some of them, but until they start losing major ground politically, don't expect much more.
I read this at the NYT and found it to be chilling. And it's also infuriating as hell, because it's the same thing we're hearing in Woodward's new book: Trump is unstable, out of control, and dangerous. It leaves me feeling helpless and outraged that everyone sees the problem and is too afraid to do anything about it!
Unless and until these “insiders” step up and testify before Congress or make a legal charge, we're left standing around like hapless stooges, again.
Trump is as insane; we've known all along that he was unfit to be president. Now we have to get those closest to him to do something more substantial than write notes anonymously.
donnah -- We can strike back on election day in November. We're counting the days. Until then, his party is living in fear of him and won't do a damn thing.
The article claims that several officials are stopping some of Trump's worst idiocies by talking him out of them or removing papers before he can sign them. So it's not true that nobody is doing anything. Elected Republican politicians are mostly cowards who don't dare stand up to the Trumpanzees; the worst Trump's staff have to fear is being fired from jobs they hate anyway.
This is all assuming the article is truthful, of course. We always have to be aware that that remains a question, as with the various tell-all books which are starting to come out. Not until this whole thing is over will we know the full truth.
Infidel -- We found the timing of the article interesting, coming as it did after McCain's final statements / letter / funeral. The author also mentions McCain at length, and seems to have been "inspired" by his words. The most aggravating people are the Tillersons, McMasters, and Gary Cohens who have yet to speak up publicly about what they witnessed. They're not running for office, nor are they in Trump's employ.
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