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2018-09-07 Home Front: Politix
A guess at identifying the NYT's infamous anonymous Trump insider
[American Thinker] The New York Times published an anonymous op-ed, purportedly penned by a "senior White House official" in the Trump administration.

Read the missive, and note that there are several clear "tells" in the piece ‐ clues that indicate the motivations and leanings of the author, whoever the coward is. And I will use that word, as someone with the character and fortitude claimed by the author would never write an anonymous piece, nor would he remain employed within an administration he so clearly despises. The Times has called the author "he," so I will assume a male is the person responsible

This first clue tells me that it is a member of the swamp, coming from the position that government is an entitlement belonging to an elite, never meant to be sullied by the hands of an "outsider."

He is also among those who oppose Trump's use of tariffs and opposed his taking NATO and the E.U. to task for their looting of our goodwill.

He grudgingly admits that good things have happened but immediately assigns credit to himself, not to the man who drove the initiatives, which is the hallmark of the committed "NeverTrump" and the spurned Obama holdover.

He further reveals himself by the use of such bromides as "rising above politics, reaching across the aisle and resolving to shed the labels," along with petty and unsubstantiated shots at the president, apparently claiming psychic abilities, as he claims to know that Trump "fears such honorable men as McCain."

He ascribes to himself an admirable stoicism, never missing an opportunity to inform the reader of the terrible sacrifice he is making to save us all from our evil natures, as personified in the hulking frame of Donald Trump, whom we foolishly elected, knowing not what we do ‐ a position echoed endlessly by the self-righteous Obama apparatchiks tossed unceremoniously by the will of the people last November.

"So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until ‐ one way or another ‐ it's over."

Related: Washington Insider - 7 points on the anonymous New York Times 'resistance' op-ed
Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-07 02:26|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 One last torpedo. Timed to be released by friends and family, following the funeral and interment.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-07 02:34||   2018-09-07 02:34|| Front Page Top

#2 It's SOOO deep-state, Ir reckon Trump wrote it to make sure the MSM praised sedition.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-09-07 02:49||   2018-09-07 02:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Insty agrees with me
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-09-07 07:42||   2018-09-07 07:42|| Front Page Top

#4 I think it was written by the NYT. They're trying to gaslight the Trump administration:

"Let the enemy's own spy sow discord in the enemy camp."

The downside for the left is that now the Deep State has been confirmed as something real, by the left itself.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-09-07 07:50||   2018-09-07 07:50|| Front Page Top

#5 It can't be Trump. No misspellings, not enough capitals and extra punctuation, no awkward use of the word "beautiful".
Posted by gorb 2018-09-07 10:14||   2018-09-07 10:14|| Front Page Top

#6 I agree with Elmerert Hupens2660 but would confirming someones paranoia (Trump blames the deep state for slowing the implementation of his plans) really lead to more paranoia? I wouldn't think so.
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-09-07 10:16||   2018-09-07 10:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Falsely confirming a suspicion could trigger a witch hunt within the Trump administration.

Different factions who would be fundamentally loyal to the admin's policy objectives would start to distrust each other needlessly.

Alternatively this really could be a plant by Trump. His adversaries have now acknowledged the existence of a permanent bureaucracy that has been operating outside the framework of the US constitution, probably for many decades.

Even Democrats who agree with this "Deep State's" opposition to Trump cannot defend this outfit's legitimacy.

Hence Warren's call for invoking the 25th Amendment. This would be a legitimate act by dissenters in the administration, while playing "Deep State" isn't.

Warren is actually disowning the resistance within the executive branch.

Well have to wait and see who has been assigned the roles of Mundt, Fiedler and Leamas in this story, and by whom.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-09-07 16:33||   2018-09-07 16:33|| Front Page Top

#8 It can't be Trump. No misspellings, not enough capitals and extra punctuation, no awkward use of the word "beautiful".
Posted by gorb

I agree gorb. With the possible exception of a former Alabama senator, I can't imagine Trump casting aspersions upon his own team.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-07 16:37||   2018-09-07 16:37|| Front Page Top

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