"Senior Administration Official" Admits There's a Deep State in the White House "Thwarting" Trump

But he or she claims this isn't a "Deep State," but a "steady state." You know, a "steady state" determined to protect the preferences of the permanent bureaucratic state against the intrusions by the elected president.

Why that's not like a Deep State at all.

He or she also identifies as #TheResistance.

A senior administration official sounded an alarm Wednesday about President Donald Trump's "amorality" and "impetuous" leadership style in an unsigned opinion piece published in The New York Times.

The writer, claiming to be part of the "resistance" to Trump but not from the left, says, "Many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump's more misguided impulses until he is out of office."

The newspaper described the author of the anonymous column as "a senior official in the Trump administration."

The writer of the Times op-ed said Trump aides are aware of the president’s faults and "are trying to do what's right even when Donald Trump won't."

The writer also alleged "there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment" because of the "instability" witnessed in the president.

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The writer adds: "This isn't the work of the so-called deep state. It's the work of the steady state."

Sarah Sanders issues the White House response:

Erick Erickson has a plausible theory on why the mole chose to announce xiself.

Thanks to zombie and Christopher R. Taylor.

posted by Ace of Spades at 05:55 PM

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