The big picture: He should be paranoid. In the hours after the New York Times published the anonymous Op-Ed from "a senior official in the Trump administration" trashing the president ("I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration"), two senior administration officials reached out to Axios to say the author stole the words right out of their mouths.
"I find the reaction to the NYT op-ed fascinating — that people seem so shocked that there is a resistance from the inside," one senior official said. "A lot of us [were] wishing we’d been the writer, I suspect ... I hope he [Trump] knows — maybe he does? — that there are dozens and dozens of us."
Why it matters: Several senior White House officials have described their roles to us as saving America and the world from this president.
A good number of current White House officials have privately admitted to us they consider Trump unstable, and at times dangerously slow.
But the really deep concern and contempt, from our experience, has been at the agencies — and particularly in the foreign policy arena.https://www.axios.com/trump-administration-white-house-leaks-a5a82efa-d6c8-4209-b616-80f1422eb36c.htmlHave to wonder why it is that all these brave heroes working against the "President" on the inside are showing so little concern about Trump learning directly from them about their conspiracy...
This is becoming obvious, if it wasn't already...the op-ed (and now subsequently, more anonymous sources coming forward to say "there are dozens of us") is pre-ship jump preparations by the Rats. They can't just leave the administration when things go south, because of this administration's unprecedented corruption and amorality. They need a story they can tell that protects the GOP establishment, and assures they get jobs post collapse. "We knew, like you, that the President was unqualified, stupid, and amoral, but we stayed to limit the damage. You should thank us!"
Notably absent from this accounting; the "President's" white nationalism, illegal detention of immigrant children, or his attacks on the Justice Department. These people aren't heroes. They are co-conspirators. And if there is any justice, they will go down when Trump does. That includes you, McConnell.