LETTER: Walls closing in on Trump
I wonder if White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders sees any irony in her issuance of the following statement, “He is not putting country first, but putting himself and his ego ahead of the will of the American people. This coward should do the right thing and resign.”
She has stated what for many thoughtful and patriotic Americans would bring to mind Donald Trump, but she is not referring to him, rather she is speaking of the courageous and honorable senior administration official whose unattributed New York Times essay details the chaos, flip-flopping and incompetence of the Trump White House and how there are many “adults in the room” who are attempting to stand in the way of his efforts to change the fundamental nature of our country, Trump taking the wrong path at so many junctures. The essay details what those of us who follow Trump have known and expected of him since he began his campaign for president.
The publication of the essay comes in the same week as the release of the latest Bob Woodward book, “Fear,” an unflattering look at the administration gleaned through countless extensive interviews with administration officials, and on the heels of the funeral for beloved Arizona senator and war hero John McCain, whose speakers delivered well-received eulogies, which were widely seen as strong rebukes to the administration.
Bob Woodward is no partisan hack. He was a member of the duo that uncovered and reported on the Watergate affair, and is known after a half-century in journalism as a straight arrow and an honorable reporter and writer, someone with no ax to grind.
Predictably, Trump is lashing out at Woodward as publishing falsehoods and at the author of the Times essay, demanding that person be “turned over to the government”.
The walls are closing in on Donald Trump. Along with the benefit of further knowledge provided to the public about the White House dysfunction which he orchestrates, there is the danger that he will become more desperate and unhinged. It is a time to pray for our country. May it someday recapture its greatness rather than to continue to be run into the ground.
Oren Spiegler
South Strabane Township