President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence sign an Executive Order on Election Meddling. (Wikipedia)
When The New York Times published an anonymous opinion piece from a senior White House official, who detailed the hidden resistance within the Trump administration on September 5, the media went wild.
Backlash was swift, with many in the administration calling for the anonymous official to come out and resign. Some have even asked if a senior official wrote it at all, and if it was a product of The New York Times’ “Fake News” campaign against the president.
But the Times is a credible news source, and as much as some like to bash the media, it has a reputation to uphold. This senior official is also most likely a Republican, not a biased Democrat, who expressed praise for the Republican achievements made during Trump’s term, but also stated that “these successes have come despite–not because of–the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.”
The official said that 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.”
According to the author, a hidden resistance made up of a team of senior officials within the administration has been working to prevent his “ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions” from happening. They call the outcome of this a “two-track presidency,” which means the president does one thing but the administration does something completely different.
This news comes alongside the publication of a new book, Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward, who also exposes many secrets about the inner workings of the White House, including how Trump’s own aides have taken to swiping papers off his desk so can’t sign them.
As highly charged as this letter’s complaints are, little if nothing will change in the White House.
To Trump supporters, this is another example of a prejudice against their rightfully-elected president, and those who are working to prevent his decisions are traitors to the American people; that is, this is nothing more than the result of the Deep-State conspiracy that the President has been talking about for so long.
To those who are anti-Trump, those in this so-called “resistance” group are heroes, working to save the American people from the president’s terrible decisions.
The offical’s claim won’t change the mind of the American people. It doesn’t matter what damaging news story comes next because Trump’s supporters will unlikely abandon him.
