I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration

[Freedomisneverfree]

Stop being a sissy. Trump does not control you., GROW UP!

 

[scruffy]

Yawn.

 

[irosie91]

He's not a candidate for the presidency. If you want to discuss the accomplishments of his admin vs trump's, start a thread about it.

This one is about various members of Don's first admin who oppose his re-election due to his incompetence, recklessness, and what that will look like a second time around.

of course interesting----but I would have appreciated some EXAMPLES of those ill conceived Ideas and acts made "on the
fly" that were actually effectuated. There is no question in my
mind that Trump is afflicted with hoof in mouth disease but I am
not convinced that his judgment is clouded.

 

[Nostra]

President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.

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 hellbent on his downfall.

The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — 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.

I would know. I am one of them.

To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. 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.

That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.

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.

Opinion | I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration (Published 2018)

I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

www.nytimes.com

I was reminded of the op-ed while watching this.

Retribution — The battle for democracy

Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

www.abc.net.au

Miles Taylor, the author of the piece and then chief-of-staff at DHS, recalls meetings in the Oval with people coming and going, some without security clearances while classified info was being discussed, trump barking out orders on the fly, essentially "winging it."

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.

“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official 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.

I'd like trump fans to pause for a moment..............................instead of reflexively coming to Don's defense....................and consider if that is the kind of leadership you desire from a prez. Especially given that the people who were around him in his first term who made sure his idiocy was not imposed on the country will not be there in a second term.

Commiela is farther left than Commie Bernie.

No thanks.

 

[irosie91]

Commiela is farther left than Commie Bernie.

No thanks.

NO!!!!! you can leave out the "thanks" part

 

[berg80]

of course interesting----but I would have appreciated some EXAMPLES of those ill conceived Ideas and acts made "on the
fly" that were actually effectuated. There is no question in my
mind that Trump is afflicted with hoof in mouth disease but I am
not convinced that his judgment is clouded.

Ask yourself if those stupid ideas largely weren't acted on because the people in his admin stopped them as Taylor points out. Now ask yourself who will be there to stop them in a second term with an admin staffed with cowed sycophants.

 

[irosie91]

Ask yourself if those stupid ideas largely weren't acted on because the people in his admin stopped them as Taylor points out. Now ask yourself who will be there to stop them in a second term with an admin staffed with cowed sycophants.

Oh---as president of the USA---Trump had NO POWER----his
underlings just SURREPTITIOUSLY COUPED him out of existence

 

[BackAgain]

Hey, I get it, you can't acknowledge an accomplishment. I suspect because it involved the kind of joint effort with allies trump eschews.

Hey I get it. You oppose being honest.

 

[BackAgain]

Ignoring favorable comparisons between the trump and Biden admins doesn't change the facts.

Non sequiturs don’t really offer facts.

 

[BackAgain]

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That’s ^ a you thing, big; at least you highlight it.