Notice the title of their article but don’t let it fool you. There is zero chance this is authentic.
I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
I work for the president (no, you don’t) but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed (to whom?) to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations (that sounds personal and not policy oriented. Considering he is the President and you work “for him” apparently, but this could be treason. For your sake I hope it isn’t true).
President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader. Yes, you.
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 (which you’re part of) hellbent on his downfall.
The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp (Trump not being able to grasp things…sounds familiar) — 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. Not how you would word that statement if you were part of this and knew firsthand.
I would know. I am one of them. Sure.
To be clear, ours is not the popular (popular would imply you are sympathetic to this) “resistance” of the left. We want the administration (not Trump) to succeed and think that many of its (why not say “ours”? After all, you’re in the administration, right?) policies have already made America safer and more prosperous. Cliche.
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. Your first duty is to the President, whom you work for. Next, your country elected Trump to that office, which you work for, and we expect him to be able to carry out his agenda, which we voted for.
That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions (only Democrats consider the institutions the only things worth preserving) while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office. Notice the phrasing “out of office”? If there is dog whistling it is here to the lunatic left. Instead of saying “until his term is over” it is stated “out of office”. This is important and implies impeachment. Those who want Trump impeached want him out of office, not to finish his term. Shows you how this person thinks.
The root of the problem is the president’s amorality (yours not his). Anyone (opinion or you would have stated “everyone” or specific people because you know first hand right?) 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, (he was elected by the American People, with the authority of the American People to carry out his function as President of the United States) the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused (spoken like a liberal weasel) 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. Accusations without evidence or hearsay. Not likely how one would word something if they had first hand knowledge of it. This tell all seems to be void of any substance, but let’s continue anyway.
In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the “enemy of the people,” (fake news is the enemy of the people and his supporters know this distinction so I’m sure if you were in the administration you would too, but you’re not so you don’t) President Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic. More accusations without evidence or hearsay.
Don’t get me wrong (and a liar). 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. Did you finally read the Trump for President 2016 website? Surely you can name more than these really obvious wins. Such as judicial appointments, ending the Individual Mandate for Obamacare, launching a Space Force, ending the Paris Climate Accord participation by the US, coming to a deal with North Korea, just to name a few.
But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective. Ineffective yet they have been successes and exactly what he wanted to do. You’re the one being adversarial in your opposition from within. Petty? You mean like a punk would use anonymity to launch baseless accusations against an elected leader we elected that you are actively subverting? Guess you would know. I’ll continue.
From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies (damn, you really get around), senior officials will privately (lot of private conversations from the White House to Executive Branch departments and agencies…) admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Can you name one specific thing ever in this piece? Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims. Sounds very close to a Coup D Etat.
Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, (funny how you don’t see that in the televised live unscripted meetings) he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back. Name one? Surely you’ve seen one and could vaguely hint at it.
“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official (not a colleague or a coworker?) 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. Which decision?
The erratic behavior would be more concerning if it weren’t for unsung heroes in and around (in and around?) the White House. Some of his aides have been cast as villains by the media. Can you state an example here since it’s been in the news? But in private, they have gone to great lengths to keep bad decisions contained to the West Wing, though they are clearly not always successful. Clearly. Your powers of observation tells me you have a future in fake news journalism if this job you willingly signed up for but are in your own words actively subverting, doesn’t work out.
It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. (Oh thank god) We fully recognize what is happening. (TREASON) And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t. It is not up to you to define what is right.
The result is a two-track presidency. The result is prison time.
Take foreign policy: In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference (you’re basing this on what?) for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays (are you watching this on TV or in person? Surely you heard him say things in private. Sounds more like an opinion from someone watching with no inside knowledge) little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations. Treaties bind when it comes to nations, not minds.
Astute observers have noted, though, that the rest of the administration is operating on another track, (for someone on the inside it seems odd to note astute observers (fellow reporter colleagues maybe) rather than first hand knowledge or hearsay from colleagues in the administration), one where countries like Russia are called out for meddling (if you were in the administration you would KNOW it was a hoax, only the fake news media seems unaware of these facts) 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. Does this sound like someone with firsthand knowledge of anything inside the White House?
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, (its like I saw that in the news) which would start a complex process for removing the president (from office?). But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. (Do you mean subvert a duly elected President elected by We The People?) So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction (we elected Trump to steer the ship in a certain direction and you are deciding on your own what is “right”) until — one way or another — it’s over. Again note the words used and you get a glimpse into how this person views Trump.
The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump (don’t you mean the President, your boss?) has done to the presidency but rather (what you have done to the presidency) what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low (yes, you have) with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility.
Senator John McCain put it best in his farewell letter. All Americans should heed his words and break free of the tribalism trap, with the high aim of uniting through our shared values and love of this great nation. Trump shares my values and the values of millions of other Americans. If this story were true, and it isn’t, you are engaging in that very tribalism trap you spoke of because you unilaterally decide what is right for me and those millions of others who voted specifically for what Trump brings.
We may no longer have Senator McCain. But we will always have his example — a lodestar for restoring honor to public life and our national dialogue. Mr. Trump may fear such honorable men, but we should revere them. Interesting at the moment “we” is used by the author. Never in reference to the administration.
There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country (your version, not Trumps who we voted for) 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.
If I have not made it clear by now this article is a fake. This author is not involved in the administration. This was written to be a narrative on television and radio for a few days to spin the idea in people’s heads that these statements are true because it came from an insider. Except a real insider would write about this differently. Think of how you would recall real events in your life.
This is why it is Fake News. This is why Fake News is the enemy of the American People.
The writer is a senior official in the Trump administration.
And this was also written in the Opinion section. Let that sink in.
Stacks of Wood 