I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
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of course interesting----but I would have appreciated some EXAMPLES of those ill conceived Ideas and acts made "on the
fly" that were actually effectuated. There is no question in my
mind that Trump is afflicted with hoof in mouth disease but I am
not convinced that his judgment is clouded.
Nostra
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Commiela is farther left than Commie Bernie.President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.
It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.
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.
I would know. I am one of them.
To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.
But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.
That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.
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.
Opinion | I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration (Published 2018)
I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.www.nytimes.com
I was reminded of the op-ed while watching this.
Retribution — The battle for democracy
Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.www.abc.net.au
Miles Taylor, the author of the piece and then chief-of-staff at DHS, recalls meetings in the Oval with people coming and going, some without security clearances while classified info was being discussed, trump barking out orders on the fly, essentially "winging it."
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.
“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently, exasperated by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only a week earlier.
I'd like trump fans to pause for a moment..............................instead of reflexively coming to Don's defense....................and consider if that is the kind of leadership you desire from a prez. Especially given that the people who were around him in his first term who made sure his idiocy was not imposed on the country will not be there in a second term.
No thanks.
NO!!!!! you can leave out the "thanks" part
berg80
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Ask yourself if those stupid ideas largely weren't acted on because the people in his admin stopped them as Taylor points out. Now ask yourself who will be there to stop them in a second term with an admin staffed with cowed sycophants.
Oh---as president of the USA---Trump had NO POWER----his
underlings just SURREPTITIOUSLY COUPED him out of existence
BackAgain
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Hey I get it. You oppose being honest.
BackAgain
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Non sequiturs don’t really offer facts.
BackAgain
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That’s ^ a you thing, big; at least you highlight it.
LeroyDumonde
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Nearly the entire media, aka Trump's enemies, went along with lie after lie about Trump. Establishment Republicans lying about Trump en mass is no stretch of the imagination. I judge Trump on what I see him doing, not what his enemies say he did behind closed doors.
I my profession that which I see and hear is legally PRIVILEGED.
It is both law and ethics. It's not hard for me to adhere to that
ethic. It is hard for me to understand people who do not.
The Sage of Main Street
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A Collage of SabotagePresident Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.
It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.
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.
I would know. I am one of them.
To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.
But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.
That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.
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.
Opinion | I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration (Published 2018)
I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
I was reminded of the op-ed while watching this.
Retribution — The battle for democracy
Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.
Miles Taylor, the author of the piece and then chief-of-staff at DHS, recalls meetings in the Oval with people coming and going, some without security clearances while classified info was being discussed, trump barking out orders on the fly, essentially "winging it."
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.
“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently, exasperated by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only a week earlier.
I'd like trump fans to pause for a moment..............................instead of reflexively coming to Don's defense....................and consider if that is the kind of leadership you desire from a prez. Especially given that the people who were around him in his first term who made sure his idiocy was not imposed on the country will not be there in a second term.
The procedures of the High and Mighty Lowlife have constantly run America into dead ends and disasters. Trump's mistake was in trusting that there were "some good people" in the bipartisan ruling clique, making him hesitate in using his unerring instincts to get us out of this swamp and its increasingly toxic fumes.
The Sage of Main Street
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"I Work for That Guy, But I'm Not with That Guy"
The pompous aides needed something to brag about at the snooty Beltway wine-and-cheese parties. The Washington Elite are easily impressed if someone in the loop uses it as a lariat to drag down his boss.
LordBrownTrout
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Berg obsesses about the orange king during his morning yoga stretches.
The Sage of Main Street
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Dragonlady
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How do YOU know that anything Trump tells YOU is true?
I fact check and verify every claim either side makes. Trump lies about EVERYTHING.
Character assassination is still assassination.
LeroyDumonde
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You believed the pee tapes, Russia collusion hoax, the very fine people misrepresentation, and the suckers and losers lie.
Andrew_Jackson_FTW
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^This it is fascinating to see how Democrats now apparently champion war mongers like John Bolton. It obviously goes to show us They have no moral principles whatsoever where Mr. Trump actually does have moral principles. He wants to get along with nuclear powers like Russia. Gee doesn’t that make sense?
Do you know let’s prevent nuclear Armageddon?
Hopefully Trump learns from his mistakes and doesn’t appoint people like John Bolton to a cabinet position after the 24 election.
Trump is going to win , the country has had enough of the radical left garbage.
The Duke
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He was up until about a week ago, dipshit. Still would be if his incompetence hadn't been exposed.
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