‘The sleeper cells have awoken’: Trump and aides shaken by ‘resistance’ op-ed

The following article by Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey was posted on the Washington Post website September 5, 2018:

An anonymous Trump official wrote a column published by the New York Times on Sept. 5, describing how senior officials are working to protect the nation. (Reuters)

President Trump and his aides reacted with indignation Wednesday to an unsigned opinion column from a senior official blasting the president’s “amorality” and launched a frantic hunt for the author, who claims to be part of a secret “resistance” inside the government protecting the nation from its commander in chief.

The extraordinary column, published anonymously in the New York Times, surfaced one day after the first excerpts emerged from Bob Woodward’s new book, in which Trump’s top advisers painted a devastating portrait of the president and described a “crazytown” atmosphere inside the White House.

Taken together, they landed like a thunder clap, portraying Trump as a danger to the country that elected him and feeding the president’s paranoia about whom around him he can trust.

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