Trump: Who Wrote It?

Bob Woodward's book Fear and The New York Times got Trump shook.

He believes that anonymous sources are "fake" and called the New York Times, a "failing" newspaper. He believes that the Times and CNN will be out of business. He openly bragged that if he gets reelected, he promises to see those who attack him fail.

Yeah, good luck with that.

Donald J. Trump is furious at the New York Times after it released a bombshell op-ed from an anonymous White House official. The person closely tied to the president wrote a damaging editorial about him. The Times took a rare step of publishing this. It was done at the request of the author, a senior official whose identity is known to the public and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. Now within a few weeks we will see a possible cannon firing of a top level official. We don't know who it is?

But something tells me it could be John Kelly.

Today, Trump fired off a tweet storm.

The Failing New York Times! pic.twitter.com/SHsXvYKpBf

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2018

TREASON?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2018

Mind you, I hate calling Trump, President of the United States.

The New York Times released this around 3pm and it has gotten Washington, DC shook.

In the piece, this senior official is known but chooses to stay anonymous out of fear of Trump's wrath.

The writer said that 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.

The op-ed mention the 25th Amendment. There is an internal strife within the White House.

How can we stop [our boss] Trump from doing damage to the United States?

Here's some of the most damaging parts. The writer says that his agenda is confusing.

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.

The writer says that he is doing things repetitively and is not listening to advice.

The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.

Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright.

In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the “enemy of the people,” President Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.

Don’t get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more.

But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.

Someone is talking to the junk food media. Who is it?

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.

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.

The writer complained that Trump bowing to dictators and supporting policies that are considered dangerous. Trump continues to not acknowledge the threat of Russian meddling and keeps on distracting the Mueller probe with ridiculous kookspiracies like the "deep state."

The writer said that 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.

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.

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.

This is a big deal. The junk food media is taking apart the piece. The op-ed says that Trump can't govern as a leader. This shows that he is senile and mentally unstable to lead.

And whoever wrote this said it best, we want civility to return back to the White House.

If Trump can't do it, I guess they rather implant Mike Pence to finish the job. Regardless of who wrote this, it's up to the American people to vote. It's very important to vote this Midterm.

Trump, Republicans and Fox News want people to stay home. Seeing how progressives are really motivated to vote this year, it gives me hope that the Congress could swing back to the Democrats.

The Democrats could slow down Trump's agenda or force him to take a balance approach to governance. They could even impeach him if he does a "Saturday Night Massacre" on Robert Mueller. Who knows?

All I know is that I'm going to vote. Are you?

Whoever wrote this better watch his (or her) back these next few weeks. The Drudge Report and Fox News is going to find ways to out the anonymous source.

My bets are on John Kelly.