Two of the highest ranking officials in Trump’s government, Defense Secretary James Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, were both described in Woodward’s book as having insulted Trump’s intelligence on several occasions. The White House scrambled on Tuesday afternoon to issue denials from both Mattis and Kelly, but already on Wednesday, there was chatter in the West Wing that the book had placed Mattis’ job in jeopardy.
The decision by a paper of record to publish an anonymous op-ed immediately sparked a firestorm among journalists, experts and senior media figures.
Some were unimpressed. Walter Shaub, a former director of the Office of Government Ethics, satirized the move in a tweet:
The Atlantic’s David Frum wrote: “The author of the Times op-ed has explicitly told the president that those who offer such advice do not have the president’s best interests at heart, and are, in fact, actively subverting his best interests as he understands them on behalf of ideas of their own.”
“He’ll grow more defiant, more reckless, more anti-constitutional, and more dangerous,” Frum argued.
Mark Lotto, a former staff editor for the Times, emphasized the significance of the decision in a series of tweets. “You can like it or not, think it’s good or bad, think it’s mild or savage,” Lotto said. “I’m just saying: The standards for anonymity on the Op-Ed page are beyond high–they’re almost impossible to cross.”
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