Anonymous Letter From Anti-Trump WH Staffer Says It’s Not Deep State Which Means, It’s Deep State

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.

The author also states that calling the Media (D) out for their bias is divisive.

Really?

You mean we’re not supposed to say anything about the press that just spent the last week (though it felt like 10 years) honoring the memory of the late Senator John McCain, but in 2000 and 2008 vilified him as a warmonger, reminded us that he cheated on his first wife with Cindy, and attacked his war record while simultaneously boldly asserting that they had a right to be biased? POLITICO published an article in the last few days before the 2008 election essentially saying, ‘McCain is getting hosed in the Press — so what?’

And we are to say nothing about the blatant disregard that the Press has for the views of the more conservative half of America?

Um… no thanks.

The rest of the op-ed seems to focus on personal attacks. He’s ‘impetuous, adversarial, petty, and ineffective‘ and his behavior is ‘erratic.’

From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims.

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.

The author also says that key aides have taken a hit for decisions that the President should own:

The erratic behavior would be more concerning if it weren’t for unsung heroes in and around the White House. Some of his aides have been cast as villains by the media. 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.

It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t.

Adults in the room? Laura’s tweet knocked that one out of the park.

Writing a poison pen op-ed that you don't have to defend publicly is easy. Advancing an agenda that delivers 4.2 percent GDP and record low unemployment is hard. #AnonymousCoward

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) September 6, 2018

The author claims that we are left with a ‘two track presidency’ — one that the President espouses, and what is actually done. The author plays into those that claim that the president has authoritarian tendencies by stating that President Trump ‘shows a preference for autocrats and dictators‘ like Kim Jong-un of North Korea, and the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, instead of allies and ‘like-minded’ nations.

Astute observers have noted, though, that the rest of the administration is operating on another track, one where countries like Russia are called out for meddling and punished accordingly, and where allies around the world are engaged as peers rather than ridiculed as rivals.

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This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state.

The author says that there was talk of invoking the 25th Amendment to oust President Trump, due to the ‘instability’ that many witnessed, but no one wanted to start the complex process of removing the president, or ‘precipitate a constitutional crisis.‘

And then, the author reveals the true colors — the disappointment that political discourse has diminished under President Trump.

The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility.

Obviously whoever this is has not watched the Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation hearings. That is a lack of civility on the part of Democrats. ClashDaily reported that these protesters may have even been paid to disrupt the hearing. 

Here’s the kicker and how you know that it’s the ‘deep state’: invoking John McCain.

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.

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.

There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country 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.

Source: New York Times

Well, that was quite the load of hooey.

Is the author suggesting that John McCain rose above politics? Because he didn’t. He’s the one that handed the Steele dossier to Comey. It was confirmed in the minutes that one of his staffers made the suggestion to the Obama administration to target Tea Party Groups with the IRS. 

And let’s not forget that Senator McCain didn’t step down when he was diagnosed with a terminal illness and left his constituents without representation — just so he had the privilege to ‘thumbs down’ the skinny repeal of Obamacare and go against his campaign platform.

So, spare me the laudable ‘rising above politics’ sort of behavior of John McCain.

But, really, this story is a non-story unless we know who wrote it.