The Trump Administration
Lodestar
Lodestar
The Op-Ed.
Day 701
Friday 21 December 2018
You were wrong. This week proves it. Assuming you haven’t departed the administration already, now would be the time for you to go.
Day 624
Friday 5 October 2018
Still, publication of the piece, along with a new Bob Woodward book painting a picture of a president whose impulses were being thwarted by his own staff, has had some lasting aftershocks.
Day 600
Tuesday 11 September 2018
Trump is amoral, dishonest and disturbed, a man totally unfit to be president, but, as the anonymous author self-servingly wrote, “There are bright spots”
That’s the anonymous-G.O.P. credo today: We know Trump is a jerk, but you’ve gotta love the good stuff
Day 596
Friday 7 September 2018
The polygraph is not a lie-detector test. It does not determine if you are telling the truth.
A New York Times essay by an unnamed administration official reads like the opening gambit in a push for a Pence presidency.
With Trump “punch-drunk,” Ivanka and Jared Kushner are taking the lead in the mole hunt—and they’ve set their sights on an old enemy.
Day 595
Thursday 6 September 2018
Republicans say the New York Times op-ed will amp up the president's paranoia, not rein him in.
We believe, however, that any issues with the writers’ identities or their motivations for writing this piece are overridden by the necessity of informing the public about what it’s like to work for the president.
The extraordinary attack from within his own camp provoked a furious reaction from Trump, who blasted the article as “anonymous, meaning gutless” in a statement before cameras at the White House.
For a rusty chunk of Middle English first uttered in the 1300s, “lodestar” is making a surprise comeback.
Pence and other top Trump officials rushed on Thursday to deny that they authored an anonymous New York Times op-ed detailing a "resistance" movement inside the Trump administration
At a different time and in a different era, Wednesday’s bombshell New York Times op-ed by an anonymous senior Trump official would have been front page news across the globe.
Day 594
Wednesday 5 September 2018
Pence was listed at 2-to-3 odds on the site MyBookie
Hours after MyBookie posted numbers, Canada-based Bovada issued its own Trump-leak odds and listed embatted AG Sessions as its favorite at 5-to-2.
There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put the Koch Network’s agenda first.
I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.