Trump Demands NYT Turn Over Anonymous White House Critic

[mobeau69]

Source: VOA News

WHITE HOUSE — President Donald Trump demanded in a tweet Wednesday night that The New York Times immediately turn over an anonymous official of his administration for prosecution:

The demand came shortly after Trump published a one-word message on Twitter: "TREASON?"

The president and the White House reacted with anger to the Times opinion piece, written by a person — identified by the paper as a senior Trump administration official — who asserted that the president's worst impulses have been frequently foiled by his own staff.

Link to tweet

Read more: https://www.voanews.com/a/anonymous-senior-white-house-official-rips-donald-trump-new-york-times-op-ed/4559372.html

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Wow! We are in Crazytown. Trump is out of his fucking mind.

[Va Lefty]

1. Hey, Traitor don

v

[Liberalagogo]

2. Answer to Shithole's "TREASON?" twittter:

PROJECTION?

[keithbvadu2]

5. Confession?

[Liberalagogo]

9. Cowards never confess.

n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Trump just so doesn't get it

no idea how the system of a free press works, how the government works. He's not draining the swamp he's filled it with incompetents and now he is poisoning them one by one. I'm no expert but I can't imagine by what law or force of law he could compel the NYT to habeas corpus the leaker ... it's not really their problem, it's his own. This is not national secrets, the chaos is known in books, articles, on TV ... by what measure is this TREASON? Because it undermines Trump?

[Archae]

4. According to a report at Raw Story, it's Pence.

If it is, then what?

Can a President fire his VP?

[keithbvadu2]

6. Donald can easily say he can fire Pence... Can he trust Pence who would benefit if Trump goes?

[mobeau69]

8. No Constitutional provision for that that I know of. He was elected.

This is not your father's America.

[Princess Turandot]

10. He would have to be impeached and convicted...

I'm not sure what exactly the high crime would be. I might want the Democrats in the senate to vote against a conviction! He and Trump would have a few fine years together.

[xxqqqzme]

41. It's only pence if the drool

on the letter matches his DNA.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. I have only two words w/ regards to rumps' demand that the NYT turn over the source...

F*** You!

Up Yours!

F*** No!

Make us!

[NYC Liberal]

11. Cadet Bone Spurs calling someone gutless?

[cstanleytech]

12. On what grounds? Nothing the NYT published was classified so that dog and pony show of it being for

reasons of national security wont fly.

[C Moon]

13. We have no national security since you took office, bonehead.

[Peakaboo]

14. That's not how it works

This guy is a moron.

[SergeStorms]

18. Welcome to Democratic Underground!

And your assessment of the situation is spot on!

[Peakaboo]

44. Thanks

[Heartstrings]

22. Welcome to du, Peakaboo!

[BigmanPigman]

28. Tillerson said he is a

"Fucking Moron"!!!!! 100% accurate.

[niyad]

47. welcome to DU

[keithbvadu2]

15. Donald likes anonymous sources who work for him, like Q-Anon.

[Javaman]

16. LOLOLOL

this is a combo of a full fledged panic attack and a melt down! LOLOLOL!!!

sing it with me!!

He knows he's fu-ucked! He knows he's fu-ucked! He knows he's fu-ucked! He knows he's fu-ucked!

[SergeStorms]

17. Excuse me.....

[relayerbob]

19. Excellent. The stage is set

The author of that memo knew this would be the result. Hopefully, Trump will finally have a psychotic break over the paranoia of who is after him. If he does it publicly, then calling in the 25th will be easy.

[onetexan]

46. yeap, the Idiot took the bait

[smirkymonkey]

20. He can't. Who does he think he is?

The fucking Emperor of the United States?

Burn in hell you asshole!

[riversedge]

45. Emperor, King, Dictator, God--etc. Trump thinks he ALL.

[orangecrush]

21. My response

[oswaldactedalone]

24. I like your response

It’s one I thought of as well.

[Marcuse]

23. He wants to arrest his Enablers?

[Spartacus101]

25. Start looking over your shoulder, Caesar Disgutus...

...here comes Brutus, and that Cassius has a mean and hungry look...

I really do recommend "Lives of the Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius to all history-minded on here.

It's really the first hand accounts that peel your scalp off.

One of the first really modern journalists, he came up with the idea of actually interviewing still-living people who remember who he was writing about). Fascinating reading, especially the Tiberius, Nero and Caligula sections.

History does not repeat, but it rhymes.

[TygrBright]

26. The firing squad is ready!! In the Rose Garden!!! n/t

[KY_EnviroGuy]

39. I must be a bit more sinister....

I envisioned a rusty old guillotine being dragged out of the White House basement (down there where all his Twitter writers live) and set up on the front lawn.

tRump would be selling tickets and MAGA hats at the gate.......

tRump again goes into his cop, prosecutor, judge and jury mode even when there's no law broken.......

[underpants]

27. Dude, it's Q

[lastlib]

29. Donny: "Turn him over to the government!"

NYT: [Canned laugh track from "I Love Lucy"]

[blue-wave]

30. So someone has a letter published in the

NY Times and this individual should be arrested? If it ever comes to this, we are in serious trouble as a country. The Times and this individual should respond with four words: "I will not relent."

[Spartacus101]

32. We're in serious trouble right now...

...have you checked the fees for renewing your passport lately?

[Haggis for Breakfast]

34. Please elucidate

I'm about to renew mine. (I have a birth certificate and my parents were both born here.)

Am I going to need to break open the piggy bank ?

[LakeSuperiorView]

37. Maybe. Depends on what you keep on hand.

https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/passports/forms-fees/Passport%20Fees%20Chart_TSG_FEB%202018.pdf

Do it now so you don't wind up having to pay to expedite - they are notoriously slow at times.

[Spartacus101]

48. Yeah, it used to be $60-odd in '2008..it shot to $110 under Orange Tiberius.

You can always leave...IF you have the dough.

It's almost always been the case when the rest of the world wanted to come HERE from a dictatorship...well, all I can say is:

"Oh, this passport doesn't look at ALL like you, Sir..."

[trueblue2007]

31. he doesn't have the AUTHORITY to force ANY news company / organization to turn over source

he is WEAK !!!!!!!

[Doodley]

33. Nothing was in that article anyway, that we didn't already know.

His behavior now and at any time before is consistent with all the criticisms of him.

[bora13]

35. and people scoffed

when i predicted "Paradise Lost" as a timeline for this admin nearly two years ago.

[Izzy Blue]

36. Pence and/or Kelly ?

There's Pence and "lodestar"
"off the rails" attributed to Kelly by Woodward in

"Fear"

"Woodward reports that Kelly frequently told colleagues he considered the president “unhinged,” according to the Post. In one small group meeting, Kelly said of Trump: “He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown. I don’t even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had."”

NYT's OP

"Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back."

[KY_EnviroGuy]

38. It's a miracle...

he has not crashed the economy or started a new war. After it's all over, in a very warped way, we may well owe his "traitor" rebels a debt of gratitude.

........ .........

[TomCADem]

40. Or, It Could Be Sessions or Pompeo.

While Pence makes a lot of sense, since he needs to distance himself from Trump in order to remain viable as a successor, dumping Trump would also make him persona non grata with Trump supporters. Sessions has nothing to lose, since Trump wants to hire him. Also, Pompeo is getting a front row seat to the effect of Trump's crazy internationally and knows that Trump is going to blame him for not closing a deal with North Korea.

[Coventina]

42. Mr. Trump, you are merely a dick, not a 'tater!

And, since you are a dick, please go fuck yourself.

Sincerely,

Coventina

[lark]

43. Whoever wrote that article should now be Woodward's best friend, it provides ttl cooboration

to the mood in the WH and how unhinged and ignorant drumpf truly is. Russian Repugs in Congress totally do not give a shit, they will cover and protect him for their own power and don't give a shit about America, only the oligarchs that pay them and the Russians that pay and blackmail them.