Not surprisingly not one of the lefties here, salivating over the latest tabloid, has mentioned that Woodward never actually talked to any of the people he claims said this or that. He says he asked people what those people might have said.
That is yellow journalism.
He recorded every conversation.
This guy won 2 Pulitzers and has been a respected journalist for over 50 years. I'll take his word over a lying grifter who was put into office by a foreign power.
But Trump is (or was) pals with the guy that runs The National Enquirer. Isn't that an equivalency of a Pulitzer Prize journalist?
It was The National Enquirer that took down John Edwards for banging a mistress while his wife was dying of cancer.
Try to stay on topic.
I did not take this thread off topic.
Try to learn to follow the conversation.
Not surprisingly not one of the lefties here, salivating over the latest tabloid, has mentioned that Woodward never actually talked to any of the people he claims said this or that. He says he asked people what those people might have said.
That is yellow journalism.
He recorded every conversation.
This guy won 2 Pulitzers and has been a respected journalist for over 50 years. I'll take his word over a lying grifter who was put into office by a foreign power.
But Trump is (or was) pals with the guy that runs The National Enquirer. Isn't that an equivalency of a Pulitzer Prize journalist?
It was The National Enquirer that took down John Edwards for banging a mistress while his wife was dying of cancer.
Try to stay on topic.
I did not take this thread off topic.
Try to learn to follow the conversation.
The conversation was only mildly about the NE. It wasn't about John Edwards.
Disgraceful that weak and ineffectiveTrump is letting criminals Obama and Hillary walk all over him, and walk free. I can’t believe he’s being this soft. Still no charges. Trump is letting the Democrats take him down, how pathetic.
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Opinion
I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
Sept. 5, 2018
The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose 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. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here.
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.
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.
In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the “enemy of the people,” President Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.
Don’t get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more.
But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.
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.
“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.
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.
The result is a two-track presidency.
Take foreign policy: In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, 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.
On Russia, for instance, the president was reluctant to expel so many of Mr. Putin’s spies as punishment for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. He complained for weeks about senior staff members letting him get boxed into further confrontation with Russia, and he expressed frustration that the United States continued to impose sanctions on the country for its malign behavior. But his national security team knew better — such actions had to be taken, to hold Moscow accountable.
This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state.
Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.
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.
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.
The writer is a senior official in the Trump administration.
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An anonymous Op-Ed essay published by the NYT.
Are you now dumpster-diving for tabloid trash?
Muleman knows he can get some truth from his favorite C double N.
An anonymous Op-Ed essay published by the NYT.
Are you now dumpster-diving for tabloid trash?
You'd be more effective if you established credibility. I doubt you even care about politics. I doubt you hate Obama and I doubt you love Trump. You just love to fight. Whatever floats your boat. For what it's worth, I think you are interesting when you provide more substance, rather than the predictable one-liners that we heard the day before in the media. Get back to the better Muleman.
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An anonymous Op-Ed essay published by the NYT.Are you now dumpster-diving for tabloid trash?
Say's the imbie who gets his "news" from fox news. 😛
Yes, Fox News is one source of factual information and is well respected.
That is a major reason why they are by far #1 in ratings and no one else is even close.
Fake News (formally known as CNN) is somewhere around 25th.
For sure, good ol Fox News. I first heard about this from Fox today.
Fox News: WH official pens anonymous NY Times op-ed calling Trump 'anti-democratic,' 'petty and ineffective'
Nowhere in the Fox article is there any question of the veracity of the piece.
For sure, good ol Fox News. I first heard about this from Fox today.
Fox News: WH official pens anonymous NY Times op-ed calling Trump 'anti-democratic,' 'petty and ineffective'
Nowhere in the Fox article is there any question of the veracity of the piece.
"anonymous claims to be a WH official" and you bought it.
Sucker.
Dumpster-diving for tabloid trash is a sad way to spend your day.
Obama and Hillary are 100% free with clean records, while Trump is about be a disgraced President like Nixon. Stinks, don't it!!!!
Yes, Fox News is one source of factual information and is well respected.
That is a major reason why they are by far #1 in ratings and no one else is even close.[url] http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/05/wh-official-pens-anonymous-ny-ti mes-op-ed-calling-trump-anti-democratic-petty-and-ineffective.html[/url]
Dumpster-diving for tabloid trash is a sad way to spend your day.
Obama and Hillary are 100% free with clean records, while Trump is about be a disgraced President like Nixon. Stinks, don't it!!!!
When Mueller's report is released and as more time passes, history will see Nixon as a choir boy compared to the guy who put children in cages, is a friend of white nationalists, alienates allies, got played like a fool by Putin and KJU, groped women, paid off a Playboy Bunny for an affair after the birth of his young son, paid off a stripper for an affair when he was married to Melania, and put his unqualified daughter and son in law into senior advisor positions, and the list goes on.
Only a gutless coward uses anonymous sources.
For sure, good ol Fox News. I first heard about this from Fox today.
Fox News: WH official pens anonymous NY Times op-ed calling Trump 'anti-democratic,' 'petty and ineffective'
[url] http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/05/wh-official-pens-anonymous-ny-ti mes-op-ed-calling-trump-anti-democratic-petty-and-ineffective.html[/url]
Nowhere in the Fox article is there any question of the veracity of the piece.
anonymous claims to be a WH official" and you bought it.
Sucker.Dumpster-diving for tabloid trash is a sad way to spend your day.
Fox News: They report, I decide.
[Edited on 9/5/2018 by BrerRabbit]
For sure, good ol Fox News. I first heard about this from Fox today.
Fox News: WH official pens anonymous NY Times op-ed calling Trump 'anti-democratic,' 'petty and ineffective'
[url] http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/05/wh-official-pens-anonymous-ny-ti mes-op-ed-calling-trump-anti-democratic-petty-and-ineffective.html[/url]
Nowhere in the Fox article is there any question of the veracity of the piece.
anonymous claims to be a WH official" and you bought it.
Sucker.Dumpster-diving for tabloid trash is a sad way to spend your day.
Fox News: They report, I decide.
[Edited on 9/5/2018 by BrerRabbit]
Fox News reported the story as did many.
Thinking people are able to spot crap.
Only a gutless coward uses anonymous sources.
You are a gutless coward, klanazi1994,
And pops steps in a big pile again.
Sucker.
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/14/politics/paul-manafort-guilty-plea/index.html
[Edited on 9/14/2018 by LeglizHemp]
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/14/politics/paul-manafort-guilty-plea/index.html
Paul Manafort enters cooperation agreement with Justice Department
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/14/politics/paul-manafort-guilty-plea/index.html
Paul Manafort enters cooperation agreement with Justice Department
You can bet that Manafort knows plenty and will sell out Dictator Don so he can save his own a$$. Of course Trump undersold how long Manafort was associated with the campaign & his role - in typical Trump fashion. Waiting to hear Trump tell us that Manafort was actually an assistant to the coffee boy.
In the end they all sell out in the name of self preservation.
Don Jr. & Jared in the on deck circle.
Pardons on the way?
When Mueller's report is released and as more time passes, history will see Nixon as a choir boy compared to the guy who put children in cages, is a friend of white nationalists, alienates allies, got played like a fool by Putin and KJU, groped women, paid off a Playboy Bunny for an affair after the birth of his young son, paid off a stripper for an affair when he was married to Melania, and put his unqualified daughter and son in law into senior advisor positions, and the list goes on.
And spent the past 2 years bashing our country and its leaders while praising foreign adversaries...all of these things are undeniable, which begs the question why anyone would want this person to lead our country when there were 18 other Republican candidates to choose from - but they went with the above.
Several people on this site believe it was the right's response to personal attacks by Obama and liberals. In their minds, Obama lead liberal America to demonize conservatives by calling them homophobic and racist. The right had to respond, so in an effort to prove them wrong, they elected Trump. Doesn't that make the left correct in their assessment? Whatever message they were trying to send was an epic fail. He'll be gone in a few years, whether 1, 2, or 6 more, and his supporters will be hiding and denying they ever voted for him. It'll be sad to watch.
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/14/politics/paul-manafort-guilty-plea/index.html
Paul Manafort enters cooperation agreement with Justice Department
You can bet that Manafort knows plenty and will sell out Dictator Don so he can save his own a$$. Of course Trump undersold how long Manafort was associated with the campaign & his role - in typical Trump fashion. Waiting to hear Trump tell us that Manafort was actually an assistant to the coffee boy.
In the end they all sell out in the name of self preservation.
Don Jr. & Jared in the on deck circle.
Pardons on the way?
Flippers everywhere...Hope goober & Muleman got theirs on....or their galoshes!!!??!!! 
I will certainly not support a President guilty of conspiring with Russia, but so far this Mueller investigation has uncovered a tax cheat, shady loan applications and a two-week stay at one of the cozier fed pens. If there is no real substance here and Mueller's witchhunt uncovers some real estate deals that were shady BFD. THere are more kickbacks and inflated costs and palm greasing in building a library or shopping mall in your local zipcode.
I will certainly not support a President guilty of conspiring with Russia, but so far this Mueller investigation has uncovered a tax cheat, shady loan applications and a two-week stay at one of the cozier fed pens. If there is no real substance here and Mueller's witchhunt uncovers some real estate deals that were shady BFD. THere are more kickbacks and inflated costs and palm greasing in building a library or shopping mall in your local zipcode.
Why do you think Mueller cut a deal with Manafort, former campaign manager for Trump? Do you think it's because Mueller felt sorry for Manafort? Manafort knows PLENTY on Trump & the campaign ties to Russia - follow the money. Another reason Trump most likely refuses to release his tax returns like previous presidents have done. He has things to hide. Do you think he's been transparent like his predecessors? If not why do you think so?
Face it goob - You'd have never used terms like "Crooked Hillary or "witch hunt" unless you have become a parrot and repeat stale lines of a man child who is in way over his head as president.
When Mueller, a methodically operating investigator & a professional drops his findings, you may want to think about rescinding all of the regurgitated silly nicknames and incorrect statements posted to date.
Manafort bad.
Manafort crack. Manafort weak.
