Wednesday, September 5, 2018

BREAKING: On Going Sabotage at the White House


By Robert Wenzel

This is simply stunning.

Setting aside President Trump's style and policy positions.

It is pretty clear those who voted for him had a pretty good idea of what they were getting.

But some unidentified "senior official" in the White House apparently believes he knows better how to run the country, believes he can overrule the vote of the people and is part of some secret
resistance group within the White House.

We now know this because he has published an op-ed in The New York Times telling us he is doing so (along with others).

Here's the Times introduction to the op-ed:
The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers.
Here are some of the remarkable statements made in the op-ed by this senior official:
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.

To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. 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...

It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t.

The result is a two-track presidency.

Take foreign policy: In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations.

Astute observers have noted, though, that the rest of the administration is operating on another track, one where countries like Russia are called out for meddling and punished accordingly, and where allies around the world are engaged as peers rather than ridiculed as rivals.

On Russia, for instance, the president was reluctant to expel so many of Mr. Putin’s spies as punishment for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. He complained for weeks about senior staff members letting him get boxed into further confrontation with Russia, and he expressed frustration that the United States continued to impose sanctions on the country for its malign behavior. But his national security team knew better — such actions had to be taken, to hold Moscow accountable.

This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state...

Got that? The president has clearly shown a desire to talk and negotiate with Russian President Putin but there are members of his senior staff who are actively trying to sabotage his efforts.

The question must now be raised: Why has this anonymous senior administration official gone public with his op-ed at this time?

This strikes me as the first step of many.

Are we going from sabotage to an outright sophisticated coup?

Note the closing of the op-ed by this official:
There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first. But the real difference will be made by everyday citizens rising above politics, reaching across the aisle and resolving to shed the labels in favor of a single one: Americans.
"[T]he real difference will be made by everyday citizens rising above politics"? What the hell does this mean? Should we be expecting a color revolution?

Or do we have a "lone nut" in the Administration?

Robert Wenzel is Editor & Publisher of

14 comments:

  1. I think this is some sort of wink and nod telling people to Keep Calm And Carry On. Something is coming.

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    1. Coming?? Hahahaha has long arrived you mean. The deep state has been controlling presidents since the last one they couldnt control (Kennedy) so they had to kill him. This is some of the oldest news I have ever seen here!!!

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  2. Once Trump is out we can finally have our war with Russia that the Neocons have been salivating over.

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  3. So at the top they (neutral gender haha) mention "Free Markets, Free Minds" and I'm thinkin' "Hey sounds like a REASON reader, or maybe Wenzel or Rockwell?" Yeah, right. I scroll down to the meat of it and it's all "Dirty Russkis" and a wet spot for McCain. Yuch.
    Like I told the "RESIST" lady in our building: "You dump Trump, you get Pence". THAT ruined her day (chuckle).

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  4. It is totally unprecedented to have a newspaper, and especially the NYT, publish an op/ed without attribution. In my 55 years of writing op/eds I've just never seen it. Something is happening...

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    1. Publius, Cato, Brutus, Centinel, Federal Farmer, Mrs. Silence Dogood,... So ground breaking in America

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    2. Wasn't "Common Sense" basically unsigned too? (Even though it turned out to be Paine)

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  5. Pretty brazen but not surprising. And is it coincidental that this was published on the same day that British cops are charging two allegedly Russian agents with the Skripal assassination attempt?

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  6. This is worse than "stunning", it is tragic. It reminds me of a conversation I once had with a public school teacher. I complained that the public school monopoly which forced payment and forced attendance left the teachers isolated and totally unaccountable to the students and parents. Her response was that she and her co-workers were "professionals" and were "experts" at providing education unlike the parents. This self serving and ignorant attitude has apparently penetrated White House administrative personnel. They clearly think they are above the constitution given the numerous violations of the Bill of Rights. Now they have no hesitation lying about preserving "our democratic institutions." This is more evidence that America continues down the road to serfdom.

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  7. Desperate times call for desperate measures. If this is an authentic account then this loser will soon be outed and shown the door. It’s relatively easy to match someone’s writing style to their speech patterns. The hammer is about to drop.

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  8. Evidence points to pence based on the usage of lodestar. It’s stunning someone would write an op-ed confirming right wing deep stare consperiacies.

    https://twitter.com/danbl00m/status/1037428190166347776?s=21

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  9. Reason Magazine's Nick Gillespie ain't buying it, either.

    "Anonymous Tell-Alls in The New York Times Are More a Threat to the Republic Than Trump"

    http://reason.com/blog/2018/09/05/anonymous-tell-alls-in-the-new-york-time


    "The president may well be unprincipled, ignorant, and awful, but he was, well, elected fair and square."

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  10. Probably a fake editorial from a fake anonymous snitch published in a fake-news newspaper. I mean, this seems exactly the sort of thing the Leftist-liberal Democrats would cook up: Make-up a fake "anonymous source inside the White House" to sow paranoia inside the White House, and to enrage the Trump supporters and raise the spirits of the Lefties and Democrats. I smell something fishy.
    --Dave Afton

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  11. Just another example of the unbridled arrogance of those who think that they have the authority, intellect, and information to make decisions for the rest of us. Hayek's Chapter 10 applies to everyone with any power at the state, not just the president.

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