President Donald trump unleashed a blistering attack Wednesday on The New York Times after the newspaper published a brutal opinion essay written by an anonymous man it described as a senior White House official.
The op-ed describes the president as 'impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective' and says the author is part of an organized 'resistance' whose goal is 'to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting [President] Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.'
During a White House event with a group of sheriffs, Trump called the op-ed 'gutless' and suggested the writer is 'probably ... failing and probably here for all the wrong reasons.'
Separately, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement that the essay was 'pathetic, reckless, and selfish' and challenged the Times to 'issue an apology.'
'This is just another example of the liberal media’s concerted effort to discredit the President,' she said.
Sanders said the unidentified writer chose 'to deceive, rather than support, the duly elected President of the United States. He is not putting country first, but putting himself and his ego ahead of the will of the American people. This coward should do the right thing and resign.'
A mysterious senior aide to President Donald Trump attacked him anonymously in The New York Times on Wednesday, and the president shoved back in a tirade about the newspaper's veil of secrecy
The Times wrote that 'he' – identifying the author as male – is part of a White House resistance movement whose goal is to subvert the president's worst impulses in order to save the country
But Trump focused on the 'dishonest media' – specifically the Times, a paper he claims is 'failing' despite its steady growth in subscribers since he took office.
'The New York Times is failing. If I weren't here, I believe The New York Times probably wouldn't even exist,' he said, later adding: 'They don't like Donald Trump and I don't like them because they're very dishonest people.'
The Times described Wednesday's move as 'rare,' leaving open the possibility that its editorial board has masked the names of op-ed writers in the past.
The identity of the mystery scribe, Washington's new 'Deep Throat,' will become the stuff of cocktail party chatter and Twitterati sleuths for weeks. And the
But in a tweet the Times described the person as a male, saying 'he and others' are working together behind the scenes of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
A Times spokeswoman later told Business Insider that the pronoun was a mistake that shouldn't be read as a tip-off.
'Senior opinion editors know the identity of the official, as we pointed out in our editor's note,' Danielle Ha said in an email. 'The tweet was drafted by someone who is not aware of the author's identity, including the gender, so the use of "he" was an error.'
Online chatter Wednesday quickly focused on Vice President Mike Pence as armchair language analysts focused on one line describing the late Sen. John McCain as 'a lodestar for restoring honor to public life and our national dialogue.'
That word – lodestar – is a favorite of the vice president. But a senior White House official told DailyMail.com that suspicion is not focused on him or anyone in his office following a frank discussion among the VP's senior staff.
The official suspects 'lodestar' was purposely included in the op-ed to throw journalists off the scent.
'Lodestar,' a word Vice President Mike Pence is fond of using in speeches and on television, appeared in the mysterious op-ed, leading some to conclude he wrote it; but a senior White House official said hi and his office were not under suspicion
In an online introduction, the Times says the author's 'identity is known to us' and the person's 'job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers.'
The essay describes a 'quiet resistance' that by its nature has remained secret but isn't designed to bring Trump down – only to curb his worst impulses.
'Ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left,' the author writes. '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.'
So rather than risk the invocation of the Constitution's 25th Amendment, the prescribed route for removing a president, he boasts that 'we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until – one way or another – it’s over.'
The guessing game s afoot, and every male Trump appointee is a suspect
The Times took pains to keep the author's name a secret but its social media staff eliminated half the population with the word 'he'
The nameless internal Trump critic bashes the president's 'amorality,' and claims he has no 'first principles that guide his decision making' and no affinity for typical Republican ideals.
And Trump's 'impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective' management style, the writer claims, has brought disaster most of the time – and most Cabinet officials '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,' he continues.
Unlike The Washington Post, the stated policy that guides the Times in its decisions about publishing op-eds does not exclude anonymous essays.
The West Wing has been buffeted from one incoming missile to the next in recent days; the biggest recent salvo has been journalist Bob Woodward's book 'Fear,' which caught the Trump administration flat-footed when excerpts first emerged Tuesday.
That book, too, reveals at least one episode of a senior Trump adviser going behind his back to prevent him from making a catastrophic mistake.
Former chief economic advisor Gary Cohn, Woodward writes, once tried to prevent a trade disaster when Trump asked for paperwork pulling the U.S. out of a bilateral agreement with South Korea.
He 'stole a letter off Trump's desk,' Woodward writes, specifically to prevent the president from signing it. And Cohn told others he did it 'to protect the country'.
The president has branded Woodward's book a 'fraud' and a work of fiction.
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Main photo article President Donald trump unleashed a blistering attack Wednesday on The New York Times after the newspaper published a brutal opinion essay written by an anonymous man it described as a senior White House official.
The op-ed describes the president as ‘impetuous, adversarial, petty and i...
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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