Donald Trump has said an anonymous op-ed slamming him in The New York Times was an act of treason, asserting something he has only written with a question mark to date.
'The Times should never have done that because really what they've done is virtually, you know, it's treason. You could call it a lot of things,' Trump said after arriving in Billings, Montana on Thursday ahead of a rally.
Trump was being interviewed by Fox News Channel co-host Pete Hegseth in one corner of the Rimrock Auto Arena, with a live audience of more than 10,000 people.
He speculated about who might have written the piece, focusing on people working 'at a fairly low level' in his administration who may want to give the public a false picture of what's going on at the White House.
'I don't mind when they write a book and they make lies, because it gets discredited,' he said. 'We just discredited the last one.'
But he admitted that he 'can't discredit' the Times turncoat 'because you don't know who they are.'
The culprit could be a non-Republican lurking in his administration, he suggested, or 'it may be a deep-state person that's been there a long time.'
Donald Trump said Thursday that an anonymous op-ed slamming him in The New York Times was an act of treason, asserting something he has only written with a question mark to date
It came soon after Trump suggested he would put muscle behind the efforts to identify the official who broke ranks to claim in the op-ed that a 'resistance' of aides is trying to subvert the president's worst instincts for the good of the country
DailyMail.com asked Trump after he disembarked Air Force Once how he planned to uncover the disloyal official's identity.
'We're going to try!' he yelled, over the noise of the idling aircraft.
The President had mocked the newspaper just moments before in a tweet asking if the Times would investigate itself over the anonymous op-ed writer.
'Are the investigative 'journalists' of the New York Times going to investigate themselves - who is the anonymous letter writer?' Trump tweeted.
Trump will most likely rip into the article when he speaks at the rally in support of state auditor Matt Rosendale who is vying to oust Democratic Senator Jon Tester in the mid-term elections.
It comes as Trump's senior aides scrambled to disown the column that slammed the President's leadership style as impetuous, petty and ineffective.
President Donald Trump mocked the New York Times in a tweet as he was landing in Billing, Montana on Thursday (pictured above) ahead of a rally
Trump seemed content for most of the day while watching the drama of a Washington-wide molehunt play out on television and Twitter, and appreciatively consuming reports of Cabinet members denying any involvement in the journalistic bombshell.
A White House official said in the afternoon that the president would 'probably go there in Montana' – anticipating a stem-winder about the op-ed.
But the official wouldn't predict Trump's willingness to field questions from the press about who was and wasn't under suspicion.
Trump boarded Marine One on the South Lawn without approaching a waiting gaggle of reporters.
At Joint Base Andrews, he strode methodically up the Air Force One stairway, never coming near a traveling press corps that shouted questions about how he would unmask his deep-state Judas.
And despite a nearly four-hour flight to the upper plains, he didn't stray to the aft press cabin to talk.
Instead reporters were treated to a nonstop Fox News Channel feed while the network was reporting on an ever-lengthening list of Cabinet officials and other Trump A-listers who denied having anything to do with the Times essay.
The unsigned column drew disavowals from at least 11 advisers to Trump, including Vice President Mike Pence, Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary James Mattis.
Trump seethed about the piece and framed it as a jab from critics in denial about his successes, while Washington was consumed with speculation about who wrote the opinion piece.
First lady Melania Trump said in a statement on Twitter: 'To the writer of the oped - you are not protecting this country, you are sabotaging it with your cowardly actions.'
A second White House official said Thursday that West Wing aides couldn't wait for the president to leave town, knowing it would 'lower the building's blood pressure and give him a reboot' in an atmosphere where he excels.
Trump needed a rally to publicly shake his Etch-a-Sketch following a week of revelations that hit his team like a series of kidney punches.
Trump's senior aides have all scrambled to disown the op-ed that appeared in the Times on Wednesday that slammed the President's leadership style as impetuous, petty and ineffective
First came excerpts from journalist Bob Woodward's forthcoming book 'Fear,' which paints the president as an ill-prepared and crude leader whose lack of impulse control drove senior aides to protect him from himself.
In one vignette, Woodward describes then-chief economic adviser Gary Cohn literally swiping a draft memo from the Resolute Desk to derail Trump's goal of ending a crucial Korean trade agreement.
Scuttling the longstanding deal would have introduced uncertainty into Washington's relationship with Seoul and could have jeopardized America's use of South Korean real estate for an ambitious missile-detection program.
Internal fallout from the Cohn affair inside the West Wing had barely softened from panic to mere shock when The New York Times twisted the knife.
The publication of Wednesday's unsigned op-ed, which the Times claims was penned by a 'senior' administration official, struck a variation on the same theme.
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Main photo article Donald Trump has said an anonymous op-ed slamming him in The New York Times was an act of treason, asserting something he has only written with a question mark to date.
‘The Times should never have done that because really what they’ve done is virtually, you know, it’s ...
It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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