Anonymous White House Op-Ed Exposes a Presidency Running on Fear
A senior Trump administration official published an anonymous op-ed describing an internal effort to restrain the president, then spent Thursday detonating the White House’s credibility as officials scrambled to deny authorship and insist everything was fine. The result was a brutal public reminder that Trump’s own staff believed his judgment was so reckless that some of them were trying to quietly block him from inside the building.
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Anonymous White House Op-Ed Exposes a Presidency Running on Fear
A senior Trump administration official published an anonymous op-ed describing an internal effort to restrain the president, then spent Thursday detonating the White House’s credibility as officials scrambled to deny authorship and insist everything was fine. The result was a brutal public reminder that Trump’s own staff believed his judgment was so reckless that some of them were trying to quietly block him from inside the building.
A senior Trump administration official published an anonymous op-ed describing an internal effort to restrain the president, then spent Thursday detonating the White House’s credibility as officials scrambled to deny authorship and insist everything was fine. The result was a brutal public reminder that Trump’s own staff believed his judgment was so reckless that some of them were trying to quietly block him from in…
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