Anonymous author of Trump ‘resistance’ op-ed to publish a tell-all book

The author of an anonymous column in the New York Times in 2018, who was identified as a senior Trump administration official acting as part of the “resistance” inside the government, has written a tell-all book to be published next month.

The book, titled, “A WARNING,” is being promoted as “an unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency” that expands upon the Times column, which ricocheted around the world and stoked the president’s rage because of its devastating portrayal of Trump in office.

The column described Trump’s leadership style as “impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective,” and noted that “his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.”

The author of the column, which was titled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration” and was published Sept. 5, 2018, was known to the Times but identified by the Times only as a senior official in the Trump administration. The person has not been publicly identified.

It's Consuelo, the housekeeper from Guatemala.

[quote] Trump’s leadership style as “impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective,” and noted that “his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.”

Not exactly breaking news.

Kellyanne! She leaks all the time! She should wear depends LOL

🙄 r4

yawn

It’s Hogan Gidley. He’s not as stupid as he looks.

What if Anonymous is the same person as the whistleblower.

I thought Anonymous was gone. Haven't heard anything from them in years.

More details here.

[quote]Kellyanne! She leaks all the time!

Trump apparently doesn't realize this. Bloomberg says she's in the running to replace Mulvaney as new Chief of Staff.

R9 I don't think it's the same Anonymous

It started as my diary, but I expanded into book-length at the prompting of my agency.

Manipulative psychopaths. He had dozens of women he called up and tried to 'get with'. Stormy Daniels said he called her about once a month to sweet talk her, so you know he had dozens in his little black book.

Remember he coerced one woman to go into a changing room to model some things for him, then molested her in there?

I think he'll start a cult when he gets out of the White House.

Rucker’s article says the publisher has confirmed that it’s the same “anonymous” who wrote the NYT column, and adds this:

[quote]“The author could have received a seven-figure advance for writing this book,” Latimer said. “But ‘A WARNING’ was not written for financial reasons. The author sees this as an act of conscience and of duty, which is why the author refused any advance and is donating a substantial portion of any royalties to charities that protect those seeking the truth around the world.”

John Bolton

Yashar Ali:

Now that more than a handful of people know who the anonymous op-ed author is, including their book publisher, I would not expect for their name to stay under wraps for long.

It's just not possible.

Can some damning shit just come out already that sticks so the orange fucker can be ousted?

R19 - there is no there, there. The Dem's are now wanting to "slow down" the hearings because they aren't finding anything. If they were you can be sure Schiff would be screaming it from the roof of the Capital building.

*NOW* "A WARNING"?

R19. Pffft

[quote]The Dem's are now wanting to "slow down" the hearings because they aren't finding anything.

Keep telling yourself that, Boris.

If anything, it's about to explode. Major revelations coming from Bill Taylor's (NO, NOT THAT BILL TAYLOR! CALM DOWN, RUTH!) testimony.

There's a reason that the Democrats put out there yesterday that they're framing this as "abuse of power". Stay tuned.

[quote]The Dem's are now wanting to "slow down" the hearings because they aren't finding anything.

Bill Taylor testified today that he was told release of military aid was contingent on public declarations from Ukraine that it would investigate the Bidens & 2016 election, contradicting President Trump’s denial he used the money as leverage for political gain.

Or, as R20 frames it i(n desperation), "not finding anything."

R20 is in willfull denial.

Trump released the evidence already.

Everything else has been bolstering the case.

The forthcoming book will list the author as “Anonymous.” Although the person does not reveal their identity in the book, they will discuss the reasons for their anonymity, according to people involved in the project.

“Picking up from where those first words of warning left off, this explosive book offers a shocking, firsthand account of President Trump and his record,” reads a statement about the book’s release.

The book will be published Nov. 19 by Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group. It comes during a treacherous period for Trump, as the House continues its fast-moving impeachment inquiry into allegations that the president abused his power.

The author is being represented by Matt Latimer and Keith Urbahn of Javelin, the same literary agents who represented fired FBI director James B. Comey and former White House aide Cliff Sims — still a Trump ally — for their memoirs from their time in the Trump administration. The book was acquired by Sean Desmond, Twelve’s publisher.

If the Senate can't agree to impeach, then they are no longer a separate, equal branch- just a bunch of Trump bodyguards.

They'd have no problem impeaching Hillary for even one of Trump's transgressions (like, paying a porn star to shut up about their affair?)

If the Senate can't agree to impeach, then they are no longer a separate, equal branch- just a bunch of Trump bodyguards.

They'd have no problem impeaching Hillary for even one of Trump's transgressions (like, paying a porn star to shut up about their affair?)

The media must be getting used to having a feast of news every day. What will they do with themselves when this is all over? Hopefully, soon. I think the testimony today is incredibly damning. I'm smelling toast.

It’s Pierre Delecto.

It’s Melanie.

[quote]If the Senate can't agree to impeach

Only the HOUSE has the authority to impeach, moron.

R29. You smell toast, I smell toast bread. Meaning nothingburger.

R23 - you are right - it is about to explode - with the IG's investigation of the origins of the Mueller report. Many are going to go to jail.

r20, You wish.

It’s not Melanie, she can’t read or write, and it’s not Mittens because he has no spine.

It’s someone younger and less assholish. It certainly ain’t Kuntyanne or Bolton. They’re both soulless.

What is worse is that even if Dump gets imprisoned (which, r20, he ABSOLUTELY will), we’re still stuck with his satellite assholes running around the country. They need to arrest and jail all of them.

Fuck anonymous. Three years too late.

As long as it is Anonymous - it's fake

As long as it is Anonymous - it's fake

I am going to pre-order this bad boy. Even if it sucks; the proceeds go to a good cause.

How will Anonymous do a book tour? With a paper bag over their head like the Unknown Comic?

[quote] Bloomberg says she's (Conway) in the running to replace Mulvaney as new Chief of Staff.

That would be great since none of this Chiefs of Staff have lasted long. Give it to that slag and she'll burn out much sooner than if she stays in her current position.

R34, Instagram’s not going to investigate anything. Sit down.

Can you imagine what it's been like in the White House today? He is banning any copies of the Wash Post and NY Times from the White House. I can't imagine trying to deal with him now. Where is Ivanka? Does she just stay away from her pretty office on days like this?

Good question r44... she and Jared have disappeared. A few weeks ago, she and Jared were supposedly participating in Jewish holidays, but they’ve been over for awhile.

It’s Barron. He has a photographic memory and he’s got a score to settle for not getting the Nintendo Switch he was promised last Christmas.

Ivanka was right by Daddy's side the other day when he fucked up the phone call with the two women astronauts during their spacewalk. Reading from prepared notes, he congratulated them on being the first women ever to walk in space. They corrected him and pointed out other women have done it before, but this was the first women-only spacewalk. He reacted by giving them the finger.

He is such an asshole. Has he ever done a courageous thing in his life?

Is this the same Anonymous who's always posting on Datalounge?

I HOPE I just have a vivid imagination, but...

I see this whole thing as a Trump/GOP plant. The op-ed, planted by Trump and his handlers, germinated a seed which led to this imminent "book" that really does not exist. At least I don't think it does. CNN got an exclusive look at the cover - THAT boring-ass cover? Why not an advance copy? Excerpts?

Fast forward to, say, next week. The NYT, after diligent research, finds the author to be not quite what they say they are/were. It WAS an op-ed, but the Times with that maudlin gravitas only it can do so well, announces on the front page that they have reason to discredit the author and must retract the previously published op-ed. Followed the next day by a statement from the Op-Ed Board as to why they had to come to that considered, but painful decision.

Credibility of author and book severely compromised, Twelve announces a postponement of the book. Meaning zero chance the public will ever see what never existed in the first place.

Trump, the GOP and the base will be sufficiently fired back up. Senators who have thought about straying will publicly and fervently come back to the cult. Impeachment proceedings will be seen as bad vaudeville. Democrats will become dilettantes.

Just the October surprise (a year early) the GOP is foaming at the mouth for.

R51, Dump would NEVER EVER EVER agree to publish a fake editorial talking about how bad his administration is, even with a possible payoff down the road.

I can see your reasoning, R51, but you're forgetting that in this age of journalism, one failure of this magnitude destroys even an otherwise trustworthy newsman or organization (Dan Rather, CBS News, for instance). [italic]The Times[/italic] must have done their vetting and discussed this endlessly, all the way to Sulzberger, and everyone signed off. If you are indeed correct, it's over for [italic]The Times[/italic].

The Dan Rather episode would never happen today. It's not the same era anymore, and the NYT has made a lot of ethical blunders with no repercussions in the last couple of years.

We live in a time when Republican Senators who know better will still end up standing behind Trump, reputation and honor be damned! It will be ugly to witness. I just hope and pray that Trump doesn't win in 2020. It's the only thing that we "the little people" can do to protect our future. If Trump wins, we should all brush up on our Russian.

Until the people who always vote republican finally realize that the republicans in Congress are only interested in the party & keeping their jobs as long as possible, and not the people who put them there, nothing is going to change with them. And so far they don't seem to be getting the message.

Kellyanne written by her professional writer husband?

" I just hope and pray that Trump doesn't win in 2020."

In a perverse way, I really want Trump to win in 2020. This country has really sunk to new lows under Trump, but it hasn't hit rock bottom by a long way. After 8 years of Trump and this country looks like Germany in 1946, maybe then the asshole Deplorables who support him will realize he's a piece of shit who should never been allowed to run for office, but I still wouldn't hold my breath.

"If you are indeed correct, it's over for The Times."

You say that if it's a bad thing. I could think of nothing better than that pseudo-progressive "let's play both ends against the middle" rag going down in a massive ball of flames.

Honestly it does seem like it would be the Conways, they're clearly into some kind of grift and publishing this book now will set them up for gigs after a Trump presidency.

It's got to be Conway. I renumber before Trump won the election she was all over the TV supporting him. But what was interesting was that one of the hosts reviled she felt dirty doing so when they were off the air. In other words, she doesn't like him, thought he was going to lose, just doing it for the money than surprise, Cheeto wins and she gets another shot at fame and fortune. Now that it looks like he is a one term President, she is looking for more hard cash. Plus we know her husband cant stand Cheeto so not a stretch to think they both secretly are going to throw him under the bus like he dose to everyone else.

John Huntsman, Mormon, recently resigned as ambassador to Russia, and may be considering another WH bid.

[quote]The Dan Rather episode would never happen today.

No, it would be much worse. The radical right would take down anyone remotely connected to Rather and CBS News as well. They're out for blood at this point — the Senatrice threatening to put a resolution before the Senate condemning the House for even investigating impeachment (after the debacle they caused to happen against Clinton over a blowjob) is just the latest example of how low the Republicans will go — because they're entitled white Christian men fearing permanent minority status, and rightly so. Every time Trump calls the press "the enemy of the people" what he's saying is the press is the enemy of angry white Christian men because the press reports on their activities, and more importantly, acts as the conscience of the Nation during times of moral crisis such as we're in. Make no mistake, the right would love to destroy [italic]The Times[/italic], and even better, replace it with a fake news conduit like Fox (and they already have the tool as Murdoch bought the [italic]Wall Street Journal[/italic] in anticipation the a vacuum created when the paper of record dies).

[quote]You say that if it's a bad thing

It is. I'm no fan of [italic]The Times'[/italic] style of pandering to the right (for example, Ken Vogle's hit piece on Joe Biden that spent 19 paragraphs detailing all of the allegations as though they were proven fact, only to bury the truth that "no evidence proving any of the allegations has been found" on page 23 [or whatever it was, I'm not going to go find the paper edition to ascertain it's page 22 or 24]). But at this point, what major news organization that has the stature and influence remains?

None of the major television networks have anything resembling a serious news operation; CNN is ridiculously inept, MSNBC is seen as just a partisan as FOX (despite the fact that MSNBC's reporting is based on facts while FOX's is just entertainment ginned up to motivate the base), [italic]The Post[/italic] is only kept alive by Bezos' willing to lose money to own a powerful voice in DC to fight it when the government finally decides to regulate online retail according to the law, and local journalism is dead and buried. Even Comedy Central's [italic]Daily Show[/italic] is no longer a factor.

And that leaves us with Facebook, a disaster-in-the-making headed by a childish incompetent thief whose political bent has become more and more apparent with each passing day as he enables the Russians for profit and excuses the worst of conservative failures and chicanery while deeming that voices on the left have no place on Facebook's platform.

[italic]The Times[/italic] has made a lot of ethical blunders in recent years. I don't need to detail them all here because, not coincidentally, we're all aware of them. What's interesting to note, and is my point, is that [italic]so has every other news organization[/italic] and we're not nearly as versed in those "ethical lapses" as we are in the mistakes of the last (supposedly) impartial voice. But when FOX gets exposed telling lies, no one cares; that's just "entertainment".

Before you condemn[italic]The Times[/italic] to the trash bin of history, ask yourself why we're so intimately aware of their mistakes.

The NYT has a horrible record of unfair reporting involving Hillary. She should sue them.

Parts of the book are being released. I need to take a few Valiums tonight...

Senior Trump administration officials considered resigning en masse last year in a “midnight self-massacre” to sound a public alarm about President Trump’s conduct, but rejected the idea because they believed it would further destabilize an already teetering government, according to a new book by an unnamed author.

In “A Warning” by Anonymous, obtained by The Washington Post ahead of its release, a writer described only as “a senior official in the Trump administration” paints a chilling portrait of the president as cruel, inept and a danger to the nation he was elected to lead.

The author — who first captured attention in 2018 as the unidentified author of a New York Times opinion column — describes Trump careening from one self-inflicted crisis to the next, “like a twelve-year-old in an air traffic control tower, pushing the buttons of government indiscriminately, indifferent to the planes skidding across the runway and the flights frantically diverting away from the airport.”

The book is an unsparing character study of Trump, from his morality to his intellectual depth, which the author writes is based on his or her observations and experiences. The author claims many other current and former administration officials share his or her views.

The 259-page book — which was published by Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group, and goes on sale Nov. 19 — does not re-create many specific episodes in vivid detail, which the author writes was intentional to protect his or her identity.

At a moment when a stream of political appointees and career public servants have testified before Congress about Trump’s conduct as part of the House impeachment inquiry, the book’s author defends his or her decision to remain anonymous.

“I have decided to publish this anonymously because this debate is not about me,” the author writes. “It is about us. It is about how we want the presidency to reflect our country, and that is where the discussion should center. Some will call this ‘cowardice.’ My feelings are not hurt by the accusation. Nor am I unprepared to attach my name to criticism of President Trump. I may do so, in due course.”

R65 I read that in KellyAnnes voice. She would redeem herself and be celebrated if she is secretly working against and shivs Trump.

R66, I’ve combed the news articles to see if I can spot any clues re whether the whistleblower is still working in the Dump administration, but I haven’t been able to tell.

After hearing the excerpts on Rachel - I have a guess, that surprised even me. Secretary of the Treasury Mnuchin. I think it's him. (The Charlottesville outrage.)

George and Kelly Anne Conway.

I heard Rachel reading the excerpts tonight. Keep in mind, it’s written by his ally, not his opposition. That’s the amazing thing, that his own staff calls him a “fucking moron”. Huge numbers of Republican Party stalwarts criticize him. You don’t have to hear from the opposition, you need only hear from his own team.

R68, good guess!!

If DL sleuths can’t crack this then no one can.

We need a list of suspects.

Are they still there? If so, this cuts out like 60 people. There have only been a few that stayed from the beginning.

It should be a short list.

kellyanne, bolton or mnuchin

Julianne Moore. Seriously.

I’m not buying bolt as some reluctant hero. Sorry, he’s always been a hack.

Will this person ever come out?

My guesses are Cuntway or someone lower down the ladder.

Where the hell did Omarosa go? She had all these supposed damning recordings and after a few softball rekeases, she disappeared. Did they pay her off?

R66 and r69 go along with my WTF over the Conway antics, both Mr and Mrs. Kellyanne being Anonymous would explain it for me.

If Kellyanne is anonymous, the only way she becomes the celebrated hero of this mess is if she marches into the hearings Alexis Carrington style with the receipts and sings like goddamned bird.

The latest guess getting some buzz is disgraced former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

I would bet the house on Kellyanne. I just saw her defending Trump with a big ass smile on her face like you have never seen before. She is not usually that happy when she defends him. That smile is like I got a book coming out that will make millions of dollars by the time I am out of this place. She is the most two faced, alternative facts phrase creator, how could it not be her?

SmellyAnne is my guess too.

She probably dictated the book to George, and their “blended” voice (along with a few, cryptic, Pense-like, red herrings) will make it more difficult for Bill Barr to uncover the source.

She’s known as a prolific (and conscious-free) “good shit” leaker and spinner (one reason the networks give her so much airtime); and that, combined Anonymous’s” announced intension to donate book proceeds to freedom of press issues, helps ensure she and George will be lionized as heroes by the media once they are finally outed.

I didn't know about that freedom of the press donation shit. That's got to be her. If it was anyone else in that swamp, they could give a rats ass about the press, they hate the press. That's a very telling fact, industry people care about industry people and she is the only really close to that affiliation. I don't think Amarosa would do that for example.

Don't look at me, I'm out of there working on my career as a Solid Gold dancer.

Kristien Nielsen sounds very plausible. But what if it's....wait for it..... Ivanka!

I know nothing but I'm going with the Con Way's, it's right there in their name. Kellyanne disappears for weeks at a time, comes back with a new face right before the book comes out, shows up on TV with a shit-eating grin. They'll probably come out and announce their candidacy running as Independents.

I could also see them mimicking the writing styles of others as a red herring.

I don't think Neilsen is smart enough or courageous enough to take on Tbag and his cult of destruction. And I don't see her going to the NYT.

If not Kirstjen Nielsen, the other best guess is the couple trying to supplant James Carville and Mary Matalin as the go to couple for everything and anything. They will not only write a semi-tickle all book, they will forever be on the paid speaker/pundit circle raking in millions of unearned dollars (unless you think earning all sorts of scorn from truly morally righteous people from all over the world means anything to these faux Catholics. (speaking of faux Catholics check out Max and "Mercy" Schlap" who have five daughters and unabashedly love Trump)

[quote]She’s known as a prolific (and conscious-free) “good shit” leaker and spinner (one reason the networks give her so much airtime); and that, combined Anonymous’s” announced intension to donate book proceeds to freedom of press issues, helps ensure she and George will be lionized as heroes by the media once they are finally outed.

[quote] She probably dictated the book to George, and their “blended” voice (along with a few, cryptic, Pense-like, red herrings) will make it more difficult for Bill Barr to uncover the source.

Since the last year's NY Times essay was published, I've maintained that George Conway ghost-wrote it, evading any sleuthing of known writing styles among the staff to identify the author.

But now, I'm wavering because of r68's guess. Mnuchin makes sense. He strikes me as simultaneously cowardly, and yet, has the chutzpah to do this.

^I hope it's not Mmucas, if only not to have to see his revolting face all over the news. He looks like he eats tuna sandwiches with his mouth open.

I hope it's Kellyanne, everyone loves watching a train- wreck.

I think it’s Gary Cohn. He almost resigned after Charlottesville but of course didn’t because none of these guys have the courage of their convictions.

Munchin was publisher of the Yale newspaper. His first partnership in forming an investment group was with George Soros. He gave a lot of money to Democrats. During the mortgage crisis he was merciless.. I can imagine him Thinking he has to stay because of the economy. He is executive producer of a lot of movies. He is very wealthy. He was upset about Charlottesville.

Conways, Munchin, and Gary Cohn are all good guesses.

It's me bitches.

Gary Cohn is a great guess. Mnuchin seems too shitty to care about anything but money and his plastic wife.

The paranoia must be killing Trump.

I hope the Judges on the Supreme Court see this ....

“Can we just get rid of the judges? Let’s get rid of the [expletive] judges,” the president said, according to the book. “There shouldn’t be any at all, really.”

R89 - I think Mnuchin is far too focused on money acquisition and getting around legalities in order to get more of it. I also doubt he gives a shit enough to focus on writing a tell all. Personally, I also think he's too dim-witted to come out with something like this. He's riding the Trump Train until it runs out of gas - not out of any sense of fealty, but all with the lining of his pockets in mind now and for the future.

R91 - Cohn is an excellent guess. I'm not feeling the Conway (her or him) guesses . I don't see it as plausible, but I'd be delighted to be wrong. What a fantastic underhanded betrayal of that turd Trump.

I don’t see Mnuchin donating the proceeds either.

Dan Coates, former Republican US senator (R, Indiana) and former Director of National Intelligence 2017-2019.

Everyone tweet Kellyanne to reject Trump and save the country. #SuperwomanKellyanne

They got theirs.....

My dream is for "anonymous" to come out on the Rachel Maddow show.

Did Dan Coates spend enough time in the WH and around Trump to have witnessed such a broad range of his behavior and give specific examples?

It has to be someone who spends/spent considerable time in and around the Oval office. One thing that strikes me about Mnuchin is how much more visible he is than previous Treasury Secs. Why is he appearing at the WH podium addressing matters that don't fall within his purview? Like giving the press briefing with Pompeo when Bolton resigned. I thought that was weird. Weirder than the "press secretary" Stephanie Grisham not giving any briefings. I wonder if he's insinuating himself into the WH to be one of the "adults in the room."

It’s Yetta Bronstein?

Isn't Mnuchin on the new Chief of Staff list?

Thanks R97, how can those bitches censor the actual expletive he used?!

R101, I assume most of the time he would've been at the CIA in Langley, VA.

Anonymous comes across in both the op-ed and the excerpts as a policy person, someone familiar with how presidential briefings are SUPPOSED to work. That's not Kellyanne; she's never been anything except a campaign manager and professional cable news blatherer. And the notion that after her years of being one of Trump's most prolific and aggressive liars she could reintroduce herself as the person who wrote this book is too ludicrous for even one of these freaks to conceive of.

I think it's either Nielsen or Coates.

It's very obvious to me who wrote this "Anonymous" book. It's John Kelly, the same one who wrote the op-ed in the Times. I'm shocked that the Rumpster hasn't figured this out yet, but that only confirms how stupid he really is.

R108 He was reputed to be author of the NYT op ed at the time and while the office is in Langley, he would be in and out of the White House regularly. As the Director of National Intelligence, if anyone knew what was being said, he would. As DNI, he heads the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and serves as the principal adviser to the president, the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council. The DNI also coordinates intelligence matters related to the Department of Defense with the under secretary of defense for intelligence.

He was in a position to hear from lots of sources. In addition, while in the Senate, her served on the Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence overseeing the intelligence community so presumably had an idea of how things were at least supposed to work before he took the DNI job.

I have no insider knowledge, just an idea it may have been him.

I thought John Kelly at first but the writing style doesn’t seem like the style of an old military guy.

You queens make fun of me, but you really should give me more credit.

John Kelly lacks the actual decency to form the thoughts expressed by Anonymous.

Don't be fooled, even awful people hate Trump!

Neither Kelly or Mathis, two old Marines, would ever openly challenge such egregious behavior from their CiC. Aren't Marines taught to swallow and choke on the worst behavior from their superiors without challenge?

Marines aren't taught to think, just to react to their superiors and handlers. Despite John Kelly losing his own son, I don't think he has the actual real gravitas to bring himself to try to heel the actual real RABID DOG in his midst. His behavior toward Sgt. La David Johnson's family was beyond extensively shameful as @Alledged Marine Dog Kelly went along and helped to abuse a U.S. soldier by Donald Trump who hasn't even given up a meal as sacrifice.

Kelly and Mattis must be ashamed to have been part of this "cuntuary" that Trump tried to used their last vestiges of "honor" to prop himself up. Their last vestiges of these "Marines" are long gone and tattered as Trump keeps going at it defying our judiciary and lawful Congress.

And yet here you are, over and over again.

The reason why I think it might be Conway is because I can't imagine how her husband stays with her since he's such a vocal Trump critic. Maybe that's how they stay together, Kellyanne tells George the dirt and he wrote the book.

It isn't Mnuchin, he is a total Trumper.

Munchin man is the fugliest motherfucker on the planet.

That gigantic mouth could wrap around a Buick Roadmaster and still leave room for a Cadillac;

R7, speaking of Hogan Gidley, has he come out of the closet yet?

Kellyanne is ambitious. She needs to distance herself from Trump to have a career in the future (same for her buddy Pence).

This book could make her a star.

R2 - or the cleaning lady, Hillarita Clintonez

Please! Hillarita may shine the bannister until it's like glass, but she does not do windows!

Does Hillarita call Trump Mistah T?

It's Hope Hicks. Shhhhhhhhhhhhh! (Don't tell anyone)

R105 I was wondering the exact same things you were, regarding Mnuchin's increasingly frequent public appearances, especially after the Bolton exit. As an expat living here, I do my dilligence to keep up with American government and politics, so I asked a knowledgeable friend.... (Harvard grad, Think Tank employee, former Prof)

He told me that there are Statuatory and Non-Statuatory members of The National Security Council. Trump made changes to the NSC in 2017, with a "Memorandum" placing S. Mnuchin in the council as a Non-Statuatory member. According to my friend it is not unusual, as many past presidents have included previous Secretaries of the Treasury. Some comic relief here, autocorrect keeps changing Mnuchin to Munchkin. Mnuchin is the largest and creepiest goon in the Trump Administration.

Bnkkk

NEW YORK — Two of President Trump’s senior advisers undermined and ignored him in what they claimed was an effort to “save the country,” former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley claims in a new memoir.

Former secretary of state Rex Tillerson and former White House chief of staff John F. Kelly sought to recruit her to work around and subvert Trump, but she refused, Haley writes in a new book, “With All Due Respect,” which also describes Tillerson as “exhausting” and imperious and Kelly as suspicious of her access to Trump.

“Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren’t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country,” Haley wrote.

“It was their decisions, not the president’s, that were in the best interests of America, they said. The president didn’t know what he was doing,” Haley wrote of the views the two men held.

Tillerson also told her that people would die if Trump was unchecked, Haley wrote.

Tillerson did not respond to a request for comment. Kelly declined to comment in detail, but said that if providing the president “with the best and most open, legal and ethical staffing advice from across the [government] so he could make an informed decision is ‘working against Trump,’ then guilty as charged.”

In the book, which was obtained by The Washington Post ahead of its release Tuesday, Haley offers only glancing critiques of her former boss, saying she and others who worked for Trump had an obligation to carry out his wishes since he was the one elected by voters.

The former South Carolina governor, widely viewed by Republicans as a top potential presidential candidate, has repeatedly sought to minimize differences with Trump while distancing herself from his excesses. Haley, 47, writes that she backed most of the foreign policy decisions by Trump that others tried to block or slow down, including withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord and the relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

In a New York City interview with The Post coinciding with the book release, Haley also dismissed efforts by House Democrats to impeach Trump. She said she opposes Trump’s efforts to seek foreign help for political investigations in a call with Ukraine’s president, but that the actions are not impeachable.

“There was no heavy demand insisting that something had to happen. So it’s hard for me to understand where the whole impeachment situation is coming from, because what everybody’s up in arms about didn’t happen,” Haley said.

“So, do I think it’s not good practice to talk to foreign governments about investigating Americans? Yes. Do I think the president did something that warrants impeachment? No, because the aid flowed,” she said, referring to nearly $400 million in sidelined military aid.

Haley needs a kick to the cunt for being such a lying enabler

Haley: "I was only following orders".

I'd love to see this fucking cunt get swept up in the corruption and it decimate her political future.

What a bitch! I think she is aiming at becomes Trump's VP candidate for 2020?

When Trump resigns in disgrace, she will regret hitching her wagon to him.

Smelly Anne has nothing for contempt for the uneducated blowhard she serves. That’s already been made clear. She only serves the useful idiot because of her anti-choice fanaticism.

It’s the same reason the debauched rapist is depicted as Jesus’s favorite person by the “Christian” Right.

The author is David Dennison.

I think it's John Baron. You know, Trump fired him for being a lying, thieving, piece of shit. But Baron, literally, knows where the bodies are buried.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Helen Lawson had a hand in this as well. Friends inside the beltway have informed me of her L'amourette with the Ukrainian ambassador.

Jared!

HAHAHAHAHAHA r138.

Bump, because the book is coming out Tuesday!

Ooooh

Quick question... I think nothing has leaked re this book except for stuff that’s already agreed to? So is there going to be a shitstorm coming on Tuesday? Yes/yes?

We live and hope, R142.

I’m prepared to be underwhelmed.

Apparently all the good stuff was leaked already, at least according to the article I read on CNN, who had obtained an advance copy of the book. No new revelations.

Is the book out yet? Any news from it?

I’m really surprised that this didn’t make more of a splash. Wasn’t the book scheduled to be published today? I don’t see anything in the news about it.

It comes out tomorrow I think. The advance copies that media got last week all generated one article each that came and went. No new revelations and generally people thought the book was a dud.

ddddd

There is so much news happening today. And so many good people have come forward and testified - any of them could be Anonymous.

He/she should stop being anonymous