Wednesday, September 5, 2018

BOOM!

I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
(NYT)
I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
Dumb Yankee?
     …The dilemma — which [President Trump] 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.
. . .
     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…. Continued
From Woodward's book:
     "This guy [Jeff Sessions] is mentally retarded," Mr Trump reportedly told staff secretary Porter. "He's this dumb Southerner. He couldn't even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama". 
From Politico:
...Trump’s reaction [to the anonymous Times letter] was swift and harsh, suggesting that the author committed treason and then demanding that “for National Security purposes” the Times “turn him/her over to the government at once!”  [Turn him/her over to do what?]

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The country has been in serious difficultly with presidents in the past--Clinton, Bush, Reagan, and Nixon--but we seem to have reached a new low, a very dangerous low. I'm glad there are folks in the current administration willing to protect this country and the rule of law over loyalty to a man who shows none.

Roy Bauer said...

These Trumpians seem to have a weak grasp of decency and its demands. Surely, if Mr. Trump is as incompetent and dangerous as this Anonymous Author suggests, he (the AA) should stand up and show himself. As things stand, he's an enabler.

Anonymous said...

Keep it local, Chunk. National politics is above your intellectual capacity.

Anonymous said...

"Keep it local"? Who are you exactly? Oh, one of those Op Ed pieces without an author's name.

Thanks for the expansive coverage, Roy. Gives you lot to discuss with the issues of ethics and the concern for others.

Go global, Roy. Go!

Anonymous said...

Everything is connected. Thanks for keeping it so.

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