An op-ed written in the New York Times by an anonymous “senior official in the Trump administration” has drawn harsh rebuke from both sides of the aisle and beyond – after everyone from President Trump to Glenn Greenwald to the Los Angeles Times chimed in with various criticisms.
The author, who claims to be actively working against Trump in collusion with other senior officials in what they call a “resistance inside the Trump administration,” has now been labeled everything from a coward, to treasonous, to nonexistent.
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In an op-ed which appeared hours after the NYT piece, Jessica Roy of the Los Angeles Times writes: “No, anonymous Trump official, you’re not ‘part of the resistance.’ You’re a coward” for not going far enough to stop Trump and in fact enabling him.
Meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald – the Pulitzer Prize Winning co-founder of The Intercept, also called the author of the op-ed a “coward” whose ideological issues “voters didn’t ratify.”
Many of the complaints from the NYT's anonymous WH coward – not all, but many – are ideological: that Trump deviates from GOP orthodoxy, an ideology he didn't campaign on & that voters didn't ratify. Trump may be a threat but so is this covert coup to impose these policies. pic.twitter.com/4Qf54JJHN9
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 5, 2018
Greenwald continues; “The irony in the op-ed from the NYT’s anonymous WH coward is glaring and massive: s/he accuses Trump of being “anti-democratic” while boasting of membership in an unelected cabal that covertly imposes their own ideology with zero democratic accountability, mandate or transparency.” – READ MORE
[divider][/divider]The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple actually agrees with President Trump on something: The anonymous op-ed about the “resistance” to Trump among administration officials published by The New York Times is indeed “gutless.”
In an op-ed for the Post published Wednesday, Wemple argues that the Times has simply “package[d] old news in an anonymous op-ed,” in what amounts to nothing more than a “PR stunt.”
“Like most anonymous quotes and tracts, this one is a PR stunt,” writes Wemple. “Mr. Senior Administration Official gets to use the distributive power of the New York Times to recast an entire class of federal appointees. No longer are they enablers of a foolish and capricious president. They are now the country’s most precious and valued patriots. In an appearance on Wednesday afternoon, the president pronounced it all a ‘gutless’ exercise. No argument here.”
Wemple begins by providing some highlights of the “remarkable work” of news outlets in documenting the pushback against the president within his own administration. The point, he explains, is that there’s “not a lot of news value” in the Times’ big anonymous op-ed, which fails to present anything “fresh.” – READ MORE
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