NY Times didn’t respond to a request by The Epoch Times for comment by deadline.
The op-ed writer claims to be part of a network of senior officials who are “working diligently from within” to “frustrate parts of his agenda.”
“This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state,” the writer says.
The article continues that administration officials early on considered trying to invoke the 25th Amendment to have the president removed from office, but instead decided to create a “quiet resistance” inside the White House to avoid a constitutional crisis.
“To be clear, ours is not the popular ’resistance' of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous,” it says.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders issued a statement shortly after the op-ed was published, saying that the writer, who wrote that they were obstructing the president’s agenda because “our first duty is to this country,” was instead putting himself or herself above the country. She called on the person to “do the right thing” and resign.
“Nearly 62 million people voted for President Donald J. Trump in 2016, earning him 306 Electoral College votes–versus 232 for his opponent. None of them voted for a gutless, anonymous source to the failing New York Times,“ she wrote. ”We are disappointed, but not surprised, that the paper chose to publish this pathetic, reckless, and selfish op-ed.”
“The media’s wild obsession with the identity of the anonymous coward is recklessly tarnishing the reputation of thousands of great Americans who proudly serve our country and work for President Trump. Stop,” she wrote in a statement.
She then gave the newspaper’s phone number.