Publishing an anonymous op-ed in the New York Times Sept. 5 denouncing President Donald Trump, a “senior” White House official claims that an active “resistance” remains inside the administration. While no one’s stepped up yet to identify the author, some suspect U.S Russian Amb. John Huntsman. Huntsman office said that Amb. Hunstman wouldn’t submit anything for publication that wouldn’t include his name, it’s also possible that the New York Times withheld his name, for whatever reason. Talking of “resistance” to Trump’s leadership inside the White House, it corresponds to what Trump and his supporters have called the “deep state,” Democrats imbedded in government looking for anything possible to oppose Trump’s domestic and foreign policies. It’s no accident that former Watergate-fame reporter Bob Woodward timed the release of his new book “Fear.”
Woodward’s book “Fear” stems from what the author insists were numerous detailed interviews of unnamed White House officials, insisting that all interviewed feared for the country under Trump’s leadership. Without naming names, Woodward makes the strongest possible case for impeaching Trump, fearing that his continued leadership would harm U.S. national security. Yet Woodward offers not one policy issue in the Middle East, North Korea, Russia or anywhere else where an actual Trump policy has harmed the country. Woodward’s book is designed to further the hue-and-cry for impeachment and to remove Trump via the 2 th Amendment, citing evidence that he’s unfit for duty. When you consider Woodward’s book comes only two months before the Midterm elections, it’s clear that it’s designed to persuade voters to vote for Democrats in November.
It really doesn’t matter whether the New York Times has the name of the anonymous op-ed denouncing Trump, though that would satisfy some curiosity. What matters is that the denunciation is part of a pattern to discredit Trump, leaving him since Day One of his administration crippled in public opinion. With the New York Times and Washington Post some of Trump’s biggest critics, it’s no accident that it would publish the anonymous op-ed. Whether it came from a senior White House official or from someone at the New York Times, it reflects the extreme media bias against Trump. No president in modern times, including President Richard Nixon, faced so much press criticism, stemming largely from Trump’s attacks on the press for showing such dishonest reporting. Woodward’s book, daily op-eds and calls for impeachment all stem from their hatred of Trump.
When Trump won the 2016 election, it was a repudiation of the mainstream press, all of which endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. When the dust settled, the press turned it’s single-minded focus to destroying Trump, saying nothing positive even about Trump’s extraordinary management of the economy, where U.S. Gross Domestic Product [GDP] rose from one percent to over four. Yet Woodward and mainstream op-eds give Trump zero credit for the booming stock market and growing economy. When it came to the first U.S. president to meet June 12 with a leader from the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea {DPRK], Trump received nothing but criticism over the fact he didn’t deliver immediate nuclear disarmament. When Trump met with Putin in Helsinki July 16, the mainstream press accused him of treason.
Whether certain words in the anonymous op-ed like “moorings” or “impetuous” point to Huntsman, the overall media’s overwhelming pattern points to denouncing Trump whenever possible. Woodward touts his book’s credibility, there’s little doubt he’s part of the “resistance” that wants to remove Trump from office. Already rocking the boat in too many circles, the media wants nothing more than to reclaim its credibility removing Trump from office. Often criticizing Trump for using Twitter to fight back, the media wants to control the only message to the public. Telling voters in 2016 to vote for Hillary backfired for the mainstream press, leaving its credibility in shambles. Ever since, Democrats and their friends in the press decided they’d de-legitimize Trump’s election. Focusing on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russian probe has hammered down Trump’s credibility.
When Trump finds out who wrote the infamous op-ed, he-or-she will no doubt get the ax. Making good headlines, the anonymous op-ed becomes part of Democrats’ strategy, together with Woodward’s book and Congressional calls to use the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. Woodward pretends he’s a neutral journalist but, in fact, he’s one of Trump’s biggest detractors in the mainstream press with his former Washington Post partner, Carl Bernstein. Both have become partisan hacks leading the anti-Trump resistance in the Democrat- friendly press. Whoever wrote the unnamed op-ed, it’s part of the media’s anonymous sourcing that left the free press in shambles, turning once ethical journalism into a tabloid rumor mill. Woodward’s new book, today’s anonymous new stories and calls to impeach Trump without-high crimes-and-misdemeanors are all part of what Trump calls “fake news.”
