New book by Trump advisers alleges that the president has 'embedded enemies'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post

By Philip Rucker November 24 at 7:00 PM

Two of the president's longest-serving advisers allege in a new book that scores of officials inside the White House, Congress, the Justice Department and intelligence agencies are "embedded enemies of President Trump" working to stymie his agenda and delegitimize his presidency.

The authors, Corey R. Lewandowski and David N. Bossie, are both Republican operatives who do not work in the administration but are close to Trump and fashion themselves as his outside protectors. They portray the president as victim to disloyalty on his staff and "swamp creatures" intent on extinguishing his political movement.

Their book, "Trump's Enemies: How the Deep State Is Undermining the Presidency," which is being released Tuesday and was obtained in advance by The Washington Post, paints a dark and at times conspiratorial portrait of Trump's Washington. The authors identify by name a number of Trump appointees who they claim have formed a "resistance" inside the government during the first two years of Trump's presidency.

Lewandowski and Bossie write that these officials "attack the administration with a thousand cuts. They do this in complete disregard to the millions of Americans who voted for Donald Trump. They do it only for their own ends. There are far too many people in the deep reaches of the federal government who harbor as deep a hatred of Trump as does anyone from the Clinton/Obama cabal. The thing is, they get away with it when no one is looking."

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-book-by-trump-advisers-calls-out-the-presidents-embedded-enemies/2018/11/24/afcbd0fc-ede3-11e8-baac-2a674e91502b_story.html

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Trump advisers allege ‘embedded enemies’ trying to undermine president

BY AVERY ANAPOL - 11/25/18 07:47 AM EST

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Lewandowski, Trump’s former campaign manager, and Bossie, the president’s former deputy campaign manager, tear into a number of Trump appointees, including former National Economic Council director Gary Cohn and former staff secretary Rob Porter, in addition to Trump’s critics and Democratic opponents.

“There are far too many people in the deep reaches of the federal government who harbor as deep a hatred of Trump as does anyone from the Clinton/Obama cabal,” the authors write, according to the Post. “The thing is, they get away with it when no one is looking.”

The book also includes an interview with the president, in which Trump blasts the “Fake News” as the “greatest enemy of this country” and says that he should have fired former FBI director James Comey sooner: “I should have fired him the day after I won and announced please get the hell out.”

Lewandowski and Bossie’s book, which the Post says “reads in part like Trump’s Twitter grievances in book form,” falls in line with Trump’s accusations of a “deep state” working against him inside the administration.

Earlier this year, a New York Times op-ed from an anonymous senior administration official described a team of some staffers working against Trump.

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https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/418106-trump-advisers-allege-embedded-enemies-trying-to-undermine

[sprinkleeninow]

1. Sick. no text

[erronis]

4. I see text. Not good text but plenty of it.

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Two of the president’s longest-serving advisers allege in a new book that scores of officials inside the White House, Congress, the Justice Department and intelligence agencies are “embedded enemies of President Trump” working to stymie his agenda and delegitimize his presidency.

The authors, Corey R. Lewandowski and David N. Bossie, are both Republican operatives who do not work in the administration but are close to Trump and fashion themselves as his outside protectors. They portray the president as victim to disloyalty on his staff and “swamp creatures” intent on extinguishing his political movement.

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Worthless, but textual.

[sprinkleeninow]

10. My elocution is poor. What was put forth in this article is sick.

But what else to expect from 'these'.

I could not contribute any further words of revulsion than the one word, 'sick'.

Apologies. I yam currently a mess.🤕 And fed up with all the football hogging the channels.

[DRoseDARs]

11. I think you meant "n/t" or "nt" instead of "no text" in your reply title.

Meaning, of course, you had no comment beyond "Sick."

[sprinkleeninow]

19. Yes, that or eom. I usually do n/t but did not.🤔

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[OilemFirchen]

2. ...

[underpants]

14. AND!....they are EVERYWHERE!!!

Oilem

[democratisphere]

29. Extraterrestrials would never go so low with the deep state......

er....deep space propaganda.

[bitterross]

3. He does. They're called patriots.

They need to stop being so melodramatic. Every President has enemies and people trying to stymie their agenda in all the branches of government. Stop acting like Trump is the first one ever and that his treatment is so much worse than others'.

[Scarsdale]

31. I thought tRump

hired everyone who "works" for him? Lewendowski is a suck-up who will say and do anything to get back into the WH and on government payroll. The reason people despise tRump is because he is a fraud. No presidential qualifications whatsoever - NONE. He is a clown, complete with clown makeup. He has to keep his family members in their positions, to boost his ego. They are as unqualified as he is. Ivanka an advisor? For what - how to make champagne popsicles? Surely this book is a parody?

[ChiTownDenny]

40. Only the best people.

So who's in the WH?

[vlyons]

5. Enemies everywhere

nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Okay

[Doodley]

7. He is a victim and we are all supposed to feel sorry for him. Pathetic.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

12. Should we remind them that a lot more people voted against Trump than for him?

Not only Hillary's three million, but the more than six million voters who chose to vote for third party candidates. He has no mandate.

Also, why would Trump-appointed members of his administration work against his agenda? I thought he only appointed "the best people."

[dalton99a]

8. Lewandowski and Bossie are low-life thugs who belong in prison

[NotASurfer]

9. When you don't understand what loyal opposition is

then only obedience is understood to be loyalty

Even the trivial stuff

[Doitnow]

13. How many people who don't like the way trump is running this

country, will it take for some people to believe he should not be holding the office of the presidency? Are they really so dense? I'm wringing my hands.

[underpants]

15. Womp womp

Actually this book stinks of draining the pockets of the "deep State" believers

[SergeStorms]

20. No doubt the intended purpose.

They're both assholes, but they're not stupid assholes. They know how easily manipulated the Trump Cult is, and they're working the room just like Donnie himself. Now Donnie can cite this book as "proof" of a deep state interference. The bullshit just never ends.

[KPN]

24. Exactly. This was the intended purpose.

[BaronChocula]

16. Embedded Enemies - Noun

People who inform an incompetent president the constitutional limits of his power.

[FakeNoose]

17. Well there's one book I don't have to read

Thanks DonViejo! I already have an over-sized reading list, and I'm happy to skip this one.

[JohnnyRingo]

18. Whether they work in the White House or not...

...the majority of people everywhere don't like Donald Trump. Lewindowski had to write a book to tell us that?

He makes it sound like it's a disgrace or something. Book advances aside, Lewindowski probably doesn't really care much for him either.

[srobertss]

21. It will be interesting...

... to see the sales numbers on this. It seems like this would hook only the staunchest supporters and I can’t believe there are that many readers among them.

[Atman]

27. This is type of book they purchase in bulk.

Very few people actually buy these obvious hit pieces, so PACs and special interest groups buy them by the case to a) inflate sales figures, b) distribute for free, or as prizes or sign-up gifts, to their moron minions. But I’m pretty sure the NYT indicates bulk sales in their figures...which means those minions will never see it.

[srobertss]

39. Makes sense

That may explain why Clinton Cash was a bestseller. The Mercer’s probably bought truckloads.

[Izzy Blue]

22. All Trump's base needs is the right-wing lingo and they'll believe anything, the book delivers.

Lewandowski is fucking a moron,ever hear him on CNN?


2018, Book , 275 pages ;

"Summary/Review: This book will reveal the heart of the hostile bureaucratic network that has been operating in the shadows until the American people voted Trump into office. Trump's determination to transform the government, wipe out the swamp, and reduce the power of the bureaucratic machine has set him on a collision course with agencies populated by a workforce resistant to the American people's agenda. That collision, however, is one that the president is prepared to meet head-on. Why? Because it is the key to unraveling the very swamp the administration is determined to end. The reader will have a front-row, exclusive seat for the political battles inside the White House and the war it is waging against those government bureaucrats, establishment officials, and foes within the Obama administration. This book will expose the political and bureaucratic underbelly, its struggle to survive against an unorthodox commander-and-chief, and its willingness to do almost anything to stop him"

[Progressive Jones]

23. LMAO! "unorthodox commander-and-chief"... nt

[DeminPennswoods]

25. Stopped reading at "Lewandowski" and "Bossie"

that is all.

[Atman]

26. THIS

EXACTLY. Why is there even any discussion about this? Lewandowski and Bossie? What next, we start believing Corsi, too?

[Solly Mack]

28. Fart noises

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

30. I don't think this will make any "best sellers" list. Maybe not an Oprah rec, either. nt

[Jarqui]

32. It probably comes with a tube of glue for required sniffing

There is a mentally ill man in the Oval Office

One of the two major parties support this nut and enable him.

Thankfully, there are a few patriots putting the country first to try to contain the damage.

But the authors of this book are too blind and stupid to see that.

I don't think I'm missing much passing on such a book.

[Dave in VA]

33. They say they are "embedded enemies"

I say they are PATRIOTS!!!!

[SWBTATTReg]

34. Prove it. Moaning about things not getting done, when it is plain and simply that it is pure ...

incompetence and stupidity in doing anything that is causing all of the problems of this administration.

[no_hypocrisy]

35. If true, they aren't doing a very good job . . . . .

[Maxheader]

36. Not so much enemies as they are

nanny's...Keep the razor blades hidden and food tasters for the tyke...

[peekaloo]

37. Sorry but I stopped reading after "Lewandowski"

[marble falls]

38. When they start singling out the 'guilty' you know the plus sized vocalist is getting ready to sing.

[TomCADem]

41. Isn't a Book Review Analysis, Not LBN?

As noted in this thread, even a story breaking inner debates within Trump's administration is analysis because people are debating. Not sure how a book review constitutes news.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142209859

[FSogol]

42. LOL, Lookout, there is one behind you!