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Whatever your views on Trump, his behavior and his presidency, Washington looks at the act of opening a stunning attempt to overthrow the elected leader of the nation.
In an attack by an internal enemy, senior officials who see Trump closely, including the one who calls the renegade gang the "resistance," finally dare to say – albeit under the veil of Washington's anonymity – what external critics have long believed.
They warn that the President of the United States is not only unfit to be the most powerful man in the world, but that it is a vicious mix of ignorance and ego, pettiness , malignity and carelessness that puts the republic and the world at risk.
Despite his historic successes and his strong manhood, the "adults in the room" want the Americans to know that the emperor has no clothes.
The official even revealed that there had even been talk among cabinet officers of invoking the 25th amendment to dismiss the president. Washington has seen almost everything under Trump, but a palace move would be something else.
"There is someone who works for the President of the United States at a very high level who is trying to destroy it," said Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign assistant, to Anderson Cooper of CNN.
It is difficult to find a parallel in Western political history for a leader to survive such an affront since the power and fear necessary to maintain an iron rule can disappear particularly quickly in a democracy – by opposition to an autocratic state.
But Trump has long defied the predictions of his own demise and survived the kind of blows that would paralyze the other presidents. Yet no other commander-in-chief has been confronted with the personal disavowal and devastating betrayals that he suffered this week.
As a furious groan from a wounded king, Trump tweeted a single word: "TREASON?"
Woodward was only the beginning
The profoundly told story by the legendary muckraker denounces a deep disdain for the president among senior officials who would regard him as a "fool" with a fifth-year education against which the world needs to protect himself.
It turns out that Woodward was just the apéritif.
The Times' thunderbolt has exposed a routed administration, a perilous president at the door, and a drifting nation without the steady hand of an effective leader.
"Many senior officials of his administration are working diligently from the inside to thwart some parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations," the official said.
"This can be a comfort in this chaotic period, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room … it's not the job of the state says deep." Is the work of the stable state. "
The effect of the editorial was to validate many of the claims of a president that were dangerously taken by Woodward, overwhelming the White House's efforts to defend itself.
Washington is already wrapping itself up with speculations about the author of the editorial, the city's biggest literary novel since the 1996 novel titled "Primary Colors", inspired by the Clintons, was revealed as the work of Joe Klein.
There is then an increasingly rapid debate about the author's decision to stay in the dark and whether the person should show courage by resigning and revealing his name.
Unimaginable questions
But Wednesday's dreadful events – extraordinary even against Trump's standards of dynamism – pose questions that would have been unimaginable.
They understand: What will happen if, as it appears, America does not have a stable and functional president? Will the mutiny between unidentified senior officials spread and break, cause resignations or destroy the administrative fabric?
There is, of course, the perpetual question of whether the Republicans at the head of Capitol Hill will be moved to discuss the crisis of jurisdiction and temperance at the White House. Then there is the question of whether a demoralized White House and the crisis will dampen the GOP's participation in the mid-term elections where a defeat could break the bond between Trump and his party.
Does the President, seeing betrayal at every turn, launch a purge of officials that he suspects are not loyal to his political crusade, further refining the ranks of a worn out White House?
His darkest hour
Trump tried to get out of his darkest hour trying to take control of his own destiny.
Shortly after appearing in The New York Times, he appeared in the East Room of the White House in an extraordinary challenge show.
His appearance was almost noble, though infused with pathos, while a wounded leader was struggling against invisible forces that were striving to make him disappear even as he tasted the treachery that could always be the inevitable result of his erratic rule.
"The failing New York Times has an anonymous editorial – can you believe it?" Trump told a rally of sheriffs.
"Anonymous – meaning without water, an editorial without foundations," said the President, in an appearance in which he claimed a record of political success, a booming economy, and growing military power.
Later, his mood darkened and he delivered a really sinister tweet.
"Does the so-called" senior administration official "really exist or is it just the missing New York Times with another source? If the anonymous GUTLESS person does exist, the Times must return to the government at once! "Trump wrote.
The president will step up his counterattack when he will meet the campaign camp in Montana on Thursday night. He is sure to receive a warm welcome from his loyal followers, and Washington's betrayal and betrayal may not be as resonant in the Trump country.
As Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told CNN's Wolf Blitzer: "In my world, where I live in South Carolina, most people are very happy with what the president is doing," adds Woodward and The New York. Times his voters.
But make no mistake, in Washington at least, Trump is fighting for his presidency, against the forces that are trying to tear him down from the inside.
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