Trump lieutenants disavow explosive ‘resistance’ op-ed

In the op-ed, the unnamed administration official claims there’s “quiet resistance within the administration” and that many “are working diligently from within to frustrate the President’s agenda and his worst inclinations”. He criticized the media for what he said were its efforts to “undermine this administration”.

Vice President Mike Pence also denied writing the opinion piece. John McCain. That word, say some of these new amateur sleuths, is one often used in speeches given by Pence, meaning it could be either the vice-president or possibly his speechwriter.

The identity of the senior official who wrote the op-ed has not been made public. “Family members of the 28,000 people there”, said Woodward.

“We’re looking right now at what’s the appropriate action from a legislative standpoint to review what’s happened”, Meadows told USA Today.

The writer describes the president as “impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective”. Trump, appearing at an unrelated event Wednesday at the White House, lashed out at the Times for publishing the op-ed.

Amid the reaction, a lot of ideas are being thrown out, including one from Sen.

Before a campaign rally Thursday night, Trump said the New York Times’ decision to publish the op-ed could be called “treason”.

“For the sake of our national security, the New York Times should publish his name at once”. Mr. Mattis drew up a plan for air strikes that Trump eventually signed.

Meanwhile, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders issued a statement calling the author a coward and demanding the person resign. He called it “gutless” and launched into an extended criticism of the newspaper.

The writer also alleged Mr Trump has a “preference for autocrats and dictators, such as president Vladimir Putin of Russian Federation and North Korea leader Kim Jong-un”.

The Philadelphia Inquirer writer says Congress must invoke the 25th Amendment, sooner rather than later.

The book depicts Trump aides working to head off potential foreign policy disasters, taking more measured steps after the president suggested assassinating his Syrian counterpart and stealing an order that would have cancelled the US-South Korea trade agreement. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis.

Bob Woodward, the author of a new book describing how top aides to U.S. President Donald Trump have attempted to limit what they saw as his risky behavior, said on Sunday he would not have published the anonymous op-ed by an administration official that appeared in the New York Times last week. The book is set for release next Tuesday.

Woodward describes the situation in his forthcoming book “Fear” and also discussed it in an interview on ‘CBS Sunday Morning’. So do the swipes and sneering at him that slip, nearly unconsciously at times, into news stories that according to the paper’s tradition are supposed to contain facts, not opinion. Caty Weaver adapted it for Learning English. was the editor.