{"id":35569,"date":"2019-02-20T03:43:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T03:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35569"},"modified":"2019-02-20T03:43:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T03:43:03","slug":"just-wondering-what-about-that-anonymous-essayist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35569","title":{"rendered":"Just wondering: What about that &#8216;anonymous&#8217; essayist?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>It just dawned on me: In 2018 when that anonymous essay appeared in the New York Times that talked about the &#8220;resistance&#8221; within the White House, Donald Trump said he was going to root out who wrote it and take appropriate action.<\/p>\n<p>The essayist said there were members of the &#8220;resistance&#8221; who were concerned about the president&#8217;s curious impulses and worked to protect the nation against some rash decision Trump was capable of making.<\/p>\n<p>The essayist said he or she was part of a group of White House staffers who are concerned about the president&#8217;s ability to do something that endangered the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump as furious, enraged, angry to the max. He was fuming. He vowed to root out the author and then on it.<\/p>\n<p>What happened to that effort? Has the White House swept it away? Has the president given up the search? Did he find the culprit, scold him or her?<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon! Some of us &#8212; maybe <em>many<\/em> of us &#8212; want to know these things.<\/p>\n<p>Read it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/05\/opinion\/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html\">here.<\/a> It&#8217;s still a fascinating essay.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It just dawned on me: In 2018 when that anonymous essay appeared in the New York Times that talked about the &#8220;resistance&#8221; within the White House, Donald Trump said he was going to root out who wrote it and take appropriate action. The essayist said there were members of the &#8220;resistance&#8221; who were concerned about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just wondering: What about that &#8216;anonymous&#8217; essayist?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,3287,5246],"class_list":["post-35569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-new-york-times","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35570,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35569\/revisions\/35570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}