"I am part of the resistance": the White House official published a column that infuriated Trump

The New York Times published a column by an anonymous senior White House official entitled "I'm Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration."

The columnist says he "vowed to thwart some of Trump's plans" and "confront his worst tendencies." He calls the US President “immoral” and notes that Trump does not adhere to any principles when making decisions. Also, he said, Trump’s impulsiveness “leads to unprepared, incompletely informed, and sometimes reckless decisions that need to be rolled back.”

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“He could change his mind at any minute,” the column’s author complains about the US President. He and other administration officials are also concerned that Trump “shows a preference for autocrats and dictators such as Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un” and demonstrates “few ties to allies and like-minded people.” .

“We believe the President continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic, and our first responsibility is to serve this country. We are not the “resistance” of leftist forces, the official insists. “We just want the administration to succeed.”

Searches for the author and Trump's reaction

Trump traditionally responded to the column with several tweets. The first thing he wrote was just one word: “CHEASON?”:

“Does this so-called “senior employee” even exist, or has the degenerate New York Times once again made him up? If this PATHETIC anonymous person really exists, the Times must disclose it to the government in the interests of national security! ”, the US President was indignant in the next tweet (spelling and vocabulary copyrighted).

The newspaper claims that it knows the name of the author of the column, but does not intend to disclose it, so as not to risk dismissal. “We are publishing this column anonymously because it is the only way to present this point of view to our readers,” the editors emphasize.

Trump responded by promising that if he remained president through the end of his first term and into his second (“I hope it’s another six years, folks”), CNN and the New York Times would be “out of the media business” by the end of that term:

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

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

Both the TV channel and the newspaper regularly criticize Trump and his initiatives, causing the president’s anger. He repeatedly used the epithet fake news for them and accused them of lying.

“They don’t like Donald Trump and I don’t like them because they are very dishonest people,” the president said again.

Trump also wrote: “I am draining the (Washington) swamp, and it is trying to resist me. But don’t worry, victory will be ours!”

The last tweet uses the word Swamp. Trump himself and his supporters use this term and the expression “Deep state” to refer to the Washington bureaucracy. In their opinion, many representatives of the “Swamp” allegedly sympathize with the Democratic Party or simply do not want to see Trump personally in power, since he is an “outsider” who has no connections with the Washington establishment.

“This is not the activity of the so-called deep state.” This is the activity of a stable state,” the anonymous author objected to these accusations in advance in his column.

Now what?

The Associated Press says Trump's reaction to the column was "furious," meaning the president was furious. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders also called the author of the article a “coward” and suggested that he resign.

Many media outlets are reporting that the White House has begun to find out who the author of the column is. Vice President Mike Pence (he was the one who was suspected in the first place) and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have already stated that they did not write the article about the “Resistance.”

Pompeo warned the anonymous author that he should resign:

“I come from structures where it is accepted that if you are unable to carry out the orders of your boss, you have only one option: leave,” said the Secretary of State. He graduated from West Point Military Academy and served in the Army and CIA for a long time.

Pence's deputy chief of staff, Jarrod Agen, wrote that the vice president, unlike the author of the New York Times article, "puts his name on his columns":

Political experts compare the current events in the White House with the plot of the television series “House of Cards”, in which the US President and members of his administration are depicted as both participants and victims of numerous conspiracies.

The column in the New York Times appeared simultaneously with the release of a book about Trump, written by the famous journalist Bob Woodward, an investigator for the Watergate scandal. Trump has already called his book a lie and the stories about his relationship with the administration staff contained in it.

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