OnPolitics Today: Does that op-ed equal 'TREASON?' Uh, no

FROM WASHINGTON AND BEYOND

Wednesday, September 5

President Donald Trump responds to a reporters question during an event with sheriffs in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sept. 5, 2018

Trump official blasts president in anonymous op-ed

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A bombshell op-ed by one of President Donald Trump's senior officials in the New York Times paints Trump as an erratic and amoral president whose staff is actively working to thwart him.

"We fully recognize what is happening," an anonymous official says in the essay published Wednesday. "And we are trying to do what's right even when Donald Trump won't."

The piece blazed through the internet, right up to Trump's Twitter account. "TREASON?" he asked in a one-word tweet.

(Considering the staffer is neither "levying war" against America nor providing "aid and comfort" to a declared enemy, the answer is no.)

Trump offered a fuller response to the op-ed in the East Room on Wednesday, calling the essay "gutless."

"We're doing a great job," he said.

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