“President Trump is not just seething about Bob Woodward. He’s deeply suspicious of much of the government he oversees — from the hordes of folks inside agencies, right up to some of the senior-most political appointees and even some handpicked aides inside his own White House,” officials tell Axios.
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, two senior administration officials reached out to Axios to say the author stole the words right out of their mouths.”
Said one senior official: “I find the reaction to the NYT op-ed fascinating — that people seem so shocked that there is a resistance from the inside. A lot of us were wishing we’d been the writer, I suspect … I hope he knows — maybe he does? — that there are dozens and dozens of us.”
Playbook: “How is it sustainable for the president to operate in an environment in which he trusts nobody? We’re about to find out. And we’re about to find out during a critical period of legislating, with the backdrop of an election his party is somewhat likely to lose.”
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