Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein It does not get, in matters of state, much deeper than this. The extraordinary anonymous New York Times op-ed by a “senior official in the Trump administration” would be worthy of its own firestorm. Coming on the heels of disclosures from Bob Woodward’s book, it could provoke a series of explosions – political, yes, though that might only be the beginning. President Donald Trump has long raged against those in his own administration whom he believes to be working against him. He’s found good reasons to suspect disloyalty (remember the leaked transcripts of his calls with foreign leaders?) as well as bad ones (his Justice Department is not out to get him because it is prosecuting two Republican congressmen). Now comes a Woodward book where top White House officials are depicted as ignoring and even actively undermining the president’s directives. The op-ed writer, meanwhile, claims that “many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.” “This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state,” the anonymous official writes. “It’s the work of the steady state.” That’s not going to be a distinction Trump accepts. The self-described “adults in the room” might bring out some less mature tendencies in the president they’re purporting to control. The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks Forget flipping Republicans. Wednesday closed out wi... Link to the full article to read more