Trump blasts paper

NEW YORK TIMES: UNNAMED WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL SLATES HIS BOSS

Anonymous official claims White House officials wanted to oust president.

Senior officials in the Trump administration have been working from within to protect the country from the president’s worst inclinations, an anonymous Trump official wrote in a column published by the New York Times on Wednesday.

In the piece, the official described “early whispers” among members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to take steps to remove him as president, but added they decided against it to avoid a constitutional crisis.

The Times took what it called the rare step of publishing an opinion column by the official, under an agreement to keep the author’s name secret. It said the senior official’s job would be jeopardised by its disclosure.

Asked about the column, Trump called it a “gutless editorial”, bashed the New York Times as “failing” and ticked off economic achievements that he said were proof of his leadership.

Staring into the cameras, he said: “Nobody is going to come close to beating me in 2020 because of what we’ve done.”

“Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the Cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until – one way or another – it’s over,” the official wrote. –