'A coup': MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace explains the significance of NYT's anonymous Trump official's 'resistance' editorial

While responding to the bombshell editorial penned by an anonymous senior official in the Trump administration denouncing the president, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace noted that it could be considered a "coup."

In the editorial, the Trump aide claimed that he was not alone in his "resistance" to the president and that the cabal of appointees have vowed "topreserve our democraticinstitutions while thwarting Mr. Trump's more misguided impulses until he is out ofoffice."

"In other countries," Wallace said, they sometimes call this a coup."

In response, analyst and reporter Matt Miller noted that the New York Times op-ed answers a question many people have had since Trump took office — "what is the obligationof an official serving in thegovernment when they see thepresident acting recklessly, attimes in violation of the law?"

"The question I wouldreally pose for the author ofthis piece, whoever he or shemay be, is: is writing an op-ed likethis enough?" Miller mused. "Certainly you have a duty ifyou're inside the government totry to prevent the president from acting irrationally and prevent him from doing thingsthat would harm the country.But is your duty to the countrynot just to constrain him, butalso to blow a whistle to theAmerican public?Anonymously is one way, butshould you be offering testimonyto Congress?"

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