[NY TIMES] I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration

Again, if this becomes the new normal, I'll look forward to you finally figuring it out when the same types of things happen to someone rocking a D instead of an R. If you don't think having disloyal people in the executive is a problem....well, again, you likely just think that due to who is currently in the white house.

 

I was clearly talking about Washington and how it works (dysfunctional as you put it) being exposed not a specific person or president. Trump is a first on many fronts but not first in regards to corruption, dysfunction, manipulation, etc...

 

I think disloyal people in executive is horrible. But..

I think if you are going to use a lie detector, then you should first use it on the liar in chief and then after that a SENATE can use said lie detector during cabinet confirmation hearings. Checks and balances my friend. I still believe in that concept. Your deep state conspiracies are not helpful to America's well being. Truth is out there and free press is out there and impartial law is out there - we should just try harder to promote it as oppose to wanting to blow it all up like some crazed up anarchists.

I don't buy your speculation that a two-track administration will continue being an issue - I see this as purely a Trump related outlier. Once there is another data point to confirm a forming trend, then I will feel that your words on the topic have more credence. For now you are just fear mongering to defend your idol as far as I am concerned.

I guess we'll have to wait and see after all cause this conversation seems like it's going nowhere.

 

the White House has been on a witch hunt for the leaker that hand written the NYT Op/Ed.
Chief of Staff has come up w a list of 12 suspects; within minutes, news about the list was leaked to the NYT !

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/us/politics/trump-pence-pompeo-anonymous-op-ed.html

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a self-proclaimed liberterian, recommended that the president force members of his administration to take polygraph examinations, and there was at least briefly some discussion of that among advisers to the president. Another option mentioned by people close to Mr. Trump was asking senior officials to sign sworn affidavits that could be used in court if necessary.

One outside adviser said the White House had a list of about 12 suspects.​

 

You need to stop warping reality man

 

This was a Trump appointee

 

I think you are arguing a straw man - I never said it was noble or we should applaud it - just that they are in a very tough position and we need to be strategic vs partisan about this.

This op-ed is not a good thing. It's destabilizing and makes it harder to hold him in check.

We have a dangerous person in the office of the presidency - there are bigger risks here than who wins the next election. Replacing moderate Republicans with Trump loyalists is a dangerous road.

 

I’m doing as well as I was under President Obama. trump hasn’t improved anything for me that wasn’t already happening. But it’s not about just me. I don’t like the idea that the inability to tell the truth about even the most idiotic things has become ok. I don’t like that he gives a f***ing megaphone to nazis/white supremacists. I don’t like that he’s a petulant little baby with the emotional stability of a 3-yr old.

I can go on but whether or not I’m financially more or less stable has nothing to do with the idiot-in-chief. In fact, he’s made my job harder as stainless steel prices have gone up because of the tariffs and his horrific “negotiating” skills. I’m more concerned about what’s happening to other people. I believe government is a tool to help...not a tool of destruction and blatant racism.

The day he’s out of office will be a great day for this country.

 

Anomynou*dentureswhistle*

 

It is amazing that the potential list of people in Trump's staff that could have written it is such a high number that they don't really have an idea who did it.

I think in most administrations it would be either one or two guys who would be the suspects. Now there are a dozen or more. What an embarrassment.

 

Keep seeing “haha it’s great because he knows he’s driving the liberals crazy” when the dude holds yet another rally, or tweet-rants in all caps at 3am, or plants obvious distractions at opportune times.

The world is watching this pathetic, broken narcissist claw for validation from his dwindling base (that he doesn’t even like) and he’ll only ramp up the batshit rhetoric as time goes on. It’s just such a beautiful microcosm of America’s pathological inability to self reflect or be honest with itself. I’ve got my popcorn ready.

 

So Mattis is emotionally compromised?

 

I finally figured out why Bobby likes Trump so much. They are mirror images. Both are actually stupid people who think they are extremely intelligent. Both have to go out of their way to call themselves smart and can't understand why so many people call them dumb. Simply put, both are delusional narcissists.

 

I could not stand his posts any longer. The one and only person I have blocked in 16 years on Clutchfans. It is fake intellect and superiority on daily display. I finally understood I did not need to waste any more time reading his posts.

Then you realize, he does not know he wastes his time here. Typically he just attempts to refute positions, while learning nothing, nor gain any perspective from other posters here.

 

John Galt says "Trump fancies himself..." a whole lot of things, none of which are based in reality.

 

Lather, rinse, repeat 394 times a day.

 

If the Democrats seize the house (as the likely will), I wont be surprised if the GOP tries to throw Trump under the bus next year, hoping to sacrifice him for a fresh shot 2020. All these leaks seem to be in preparation for it.

If GOP loses the senate, then I am almost sure they will do it cos Trump would seem to be more trouble than he is worth with Democrat Senate and Congress.

Luckily Trump wont go down quietly, so you need to have your popcorn ready.