After a devastating 48 hours, it's already clear that Donald Trump's will never be the same.

<div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;"><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px;"><h1 class="pg-headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 26px; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; padding: 0px; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"><u>Dx:</u><span style="font-weight: 500;"> politics.</span></h1><p><span style="font-weight: 500;"><br></span></p><h1 class="pg-headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 26px; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 32px; padding: 0px; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">Trump sees treason from within</h1><p class="zn-body__paragraph speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667;"><cite class="el-editorial-source" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"></cite></p><div class="metadata " style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin: 8px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><div class="metadata__info js-byline-images" data-bundle="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;"><p class="metadata__byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span class="metadata__byline__author" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Analysis by <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/profiles/stephen-collinson" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(48, 97, 243); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;">Stephen Collinson</a>, CNN</span></p><p class="metadata__show" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"></p><p class="update-time" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em auto 2em; float: left; line-height: 1;">Updated 0503 GMT (1303 HKT) September 6, 2018</p><p class="update-time" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em auto 2em; float: left; line-height: 1;"><br></p></div></div><p class="zn-body__paragraph speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667;"><cite class="el-editorial-source" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRE3TH1GwMqSQzm6A0yKrqQSHL7z9-wa9NEMgCrhWEtfdaCo5ol656InS4OWsh1I_gWREqDpiirj_2U5S0wfe43ZsydroUJTKNv_sZcRhvmwo2IwwrSKIeF-9AGkVqy1_USSrCu1-fYu8/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRE3TH1GwMqSQzm6A0yKrqQSHL7z9-wa9NEMgCrhWEtfdaCo5ol656InS4OWsh1I_gWREqDpiirj_2U5S0wfe43ZsydroUJTKNv_sZcRhvmwo2IwwrSKIeF-9AGkVqy1_USSrCu1-fYu8/"></a><br></cite></p><p class="zn-body__paragraph speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667;"><cite class="el-editorial-source" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Washington (CNN) </cite>It's impossible to know in the moment when a presidency begins to dissolve. But after a devastating 48 hours, it's already clear that Donald Trump's will never be the same.</p></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Whatever your view of Trump, his behavior and his presidency, Washington is watching the opening act of a stunning attempt to topple the elected leader of the nation.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Damaging twin portraits of the President <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(48, 97, 243); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;">in a New York Times op-ed</a> and <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2018/09/04/politics/bob-woodward-book-donald-trump-fear/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(48, 97, 243); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;">Bob Woodward's new book</a> are using the words of current top officials to fracture the mythology of vanity and bombast, conmanship and intimidation of Trump's personality cult</div></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">In an attack from an enemy within, top officials who see Trump up close, including one calling the band of renegades the "resistance," are finally daring to say -- albeit under Washington's invisibility cloak of anonymity -- what outside critics have long believed.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">They warn the President of the United States is not only unfit to be the most powerful man in the world, but is a venal mix of ignorance and ego, pettiness, malignancy and recklessness that is putting the republic and the world itself at risk.</div><div class="el__embedded el__embedded--fullstandardwidth" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 300px; z-index: 0;"><div class="el__storyelement--fullstandardwidth el__article--embed" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: none; margin-bottom: 30px;"><div class="el__article--teaseimage" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/nyt-trump-resistance-op-ed/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 101, 152); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;"><img alt="Trump slams damning New York Times op-ed as &#39;gutless&#39;" class="media__image media__image--responsive" data-demand-load="loaded" data-eq-pts="mini: 0, xsmall: 221, small: 308, medium: 461, large: 781" data-eq-state="mini xsmall" data-src-full16x9="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905160024-trump-file-0905-full-169.jpg" data-src-large="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905160024-trump-file-0905-super-169.jpg" data-src-medium="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905160024-trump-file-0905-exlarge-169.jpg" data-src-mini="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905160024-trump-file-0905-small-169.jpg" data-src-mini1x1="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905160024-trump-file-0905-small-11.jpg" data-src-small="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905160024-trump-file-0905-large-169.jpg" data-src-xsmall="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905160024-trump-file-0905-medium-plus-169.jpg" src="https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905160024-trump-file-0905-medium-plus-169.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; width: 300px; transform: translateZ(0px); transition: opacity 0.2s ease-in-out;"><div class="img__preloader" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></a></div><div class="media__caption el__storyelement__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 0.8rem; line-height: 1.5; padding: 14px 10px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); position: relative; border-width: 0px 1px 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-bottom-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-left-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-image: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-top-color: initial;"><span class="el__storyelement__header" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: block; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.06667rem; line-height: 1.25; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/nyt-trump-resistance-op-ed/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s; display: block; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Trump slams damning New York Times op-ed as 'gutless'</a></span></div></div></div><div class="zn-body__read-all" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">For all his boasts of historic success and self-image as a strongman's strongman, the "adults in the room" want Americans to know: the emperor has no clothes.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">"The root of the problem is the President's amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making," the unnamed official wrote in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(48, 97, 243); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;">staggering essay published by the Times</a>.</div><div class="teads-inread" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><div class="teads-player" id="teads0" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">The official even revealed there had even been talk among Cabinet officers about invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the President. Washington has seen almost everything under Trump, but a palace coup would be something else.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">"There is somebody working for the President of the United States at a very senior level who is trying to destroy him," Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign aide told CNN's Anderson Cooper.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">It's hard to find a parallel in Western political history for a leader to survive such a knifing since the power and fear need to sustain iron rule can slip away especially quickly in a democracy -- as opposed to an autocratic state.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">But Trump has long defied predictions of his own demise and survived the kind of blows that would paralyze other presidents. Yet no other commander in chief has faced the staggering personal disavowals and devastating betrayals that he has endured this week.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Like a wounded king's furious wail, Trump tweeted a single word: "TREASON?"</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 22px; margin: 32px 0px -8px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Woodward was just the start</h3></div><div class="el__embedded el__embedded--fullstandardwidth" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 300px; z-index: 0;"><div class="el__storyelement--fullstandardwidth el__article--embed" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: none; margin-bottom: 30px;"><div class="el__article--teaseimage" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/trump-woodward-book-leakers/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 101, 152); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;"><img alt="Woodward book prompts West Wing witch hunt, sources say" class="media__image media__image--responsive" data-demand-load="loaded" data-eq-pts="mini: 0, xsmall: 221, small: 308, medium: 461, large: 781" data-eq-state="mini xsmall" data-src-full16x9="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180820100542-donald-trump-aug-1-full-169.jpg" data-src-large="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180820100542-donald-trump-aug-1-super-169.jpg" data-src-medium="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180820020542-donald-trump-aug-1-exlarge-16-9.jpg" data-src-mini="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180820100542-donald-trump-aug-1-small-169.jpg" data-src-mini1x1="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180820100542-donald-trump-aug-1-small-11.jpg" data-src-small="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180820100542-donald-trump-aug-1-large-169.jpg" data-src-xsmall="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180820100542-donald-trump-aug-1-medium-plus-169.jpg" src="https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180820100542-donald-trump-aug-1-medium-plus-169.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; width: 300px; transform: translateZ(0px); transition: opacity 0.2s ease-in-out;"><div class="img__preloader" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></a></div><div class="media__caption el__storyelement__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 0.8rem; line-height: 1.5; padding: 14px 10px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); position: relative; border-width: 0px 1px 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-bottom-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-left-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-image: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-top-color: initial;"><span class="el__storyelement__header" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: block; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.06667rem; line-height: 1.25; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/trump-woodward-book-leakers/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s; display: block; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Woodward book prompts West Wing witch hunt, sources say</a></span></div></div></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;"></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">The White House was already groggy Wednesday from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/trump-woodward-book-leakers/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(48, 97, 243); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;">the fearful blow of Woodward's new book peeling open the West Wing</a>, "Fear: Trump in the White House."</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">The legendary muckraker's deeply reported account exposes profound disdain for the President among senior officials who are said to view him as an "idiot" with a fifth-grade education who the world needs protecting against.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">It turns out Woodward was just the appetizer.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">The thunderclap of the Times piece laid bare an administration in disarray, a President dangerously off the rails and a nation adrift without the stable hand of an effective leader.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">"Many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations," the official wrote.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">"It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room ... this isn't the work of the so-called deep state. It's the work of the steady state."</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">The effect of the op-ed was to validate many of the claims of a President dangerously out of his depth that were made by Woodward, crushing White House efforts to fight back.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Washington is already getting consumed with speculation about who wrote the op-ed, the city's biggest literary whodunit since the 1996 novel "Primary Colors," loosely based on the Clintons, was revealed as the work of Joe Klein.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Then there is a quickening debate over the decision of the author to stay in the shadows and whether the person should demonstrate their courage of convictions by resigning and revealing their name.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 22px; margin: 32px 0px -8px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Unimaginable questions</h3></div><div class="el__embedded el__embedded--fullstandardwidth" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 300px; z-index: 0;"><div class="el__storyelement--fullstandardwidth el__article--embed" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: none; margin-bottom: 30px;"><div class="el__article--teaseimage" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/john-kerry-constitutional-crisis-cnntv/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 101, 152); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;"><img alt="John Kerry: &#39;This is a genuine constitutional crisis&#39;" class="media__image media__image--responsive" data-demand-load="loaded" data-eq-pts="mini: 0, xsmall: 221, small: 308, medium: 461, large: 781" data-eq-state="mini xsmall" data-src-full16x9="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905205516-trump-john-kerry-presidency-off-rails-op-ed-nyt-ac-vpx-00000513-full-169.jpg" data-src-large="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905205516-trump-john-kerry-presidency-off-rails-op-ed-nyt-ac-vpx-00000513-super-169.jpg" data-src-medium="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905205516-trump-john-kerry-presidency-off-rails-op-ed-nyt-ac-vpx-00000513-exlarge-169.jpg" data-src-mini="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905205516-trump-john-kerry-presidency-off-rails-op-ed-nyt-ac-vpx-00000513-small-169.jpg" data-src-mini1x1="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905205516-trump-john-kerry-presidency-off-rails-op-ed-nyt-ac-vpx-00000513-small-11.jpg" data-src-small="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905205516-trump-john-kerry-presidency-off-rails-op-ed-nyt-ac-vpx-00000513-large-169.jpg" data-src-xsmall="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905205516-trump-john-kerry-presidency-off-rails-op-ed-nyt-ac-vpx-00000513-medium-plus-169.jpg" src="https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905205516-trump-john-kerry-presidency-off-rails-op-ed-nyt-ac-vpx-00000513-medium-plus-169.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; width: 300px; transform: translateZ(0px); transition: opacity 0.2s ease-in-out;"><div class="img__preloader" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></a></div><div class="media__caption el__storyelement__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 0.8rem; line-height: 1.5; padding: 14px 10px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); position: relative; border-width: 0px 1px 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-bottom-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-left-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-image: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-top-color: initial;"><span class="el__storyelement__header" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: block; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.06667rem; line-height: 1.25; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/john-kerry-constitutional-crisis-cnntv/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s; display: block; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">John Kerry: 'This is a genuine constitutional crisis'</a></span></div></div></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;"></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">But Wednesday's staggering events -- extraordinary even by the convention-blasting standards of Trump, pose questions that would once have been unimaginable.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">They include: What will happen if, as it appears, America does not have a stable, functioning President? Will the mutiny among unidentified senior officials build and will they break cover, provoke resignations, or further shred the fabric of the administration?</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">If talk of the 25th Amendment is renewed, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/john-kerry-constitutional-crisis-cnntv/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(48, 97, 243); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;">a true constitutional crisis could be looming</a>.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">There is of course the perennial question of whether cowed Republicans on Capitol Hill will be moved to even discuss the crisis of competence and temperance raging in the White House. Then there is the issue of whether a crisis-addled and demoralized White House will dampen GOP turnout in midterm elections where a defeat could shatter the bond between Trump and his party.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">What must it be like to work in the confines of the West Wing, with a raging President, a cabal of officials working against him and the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/trump-woodward-book-leakers/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(48, 97, 243); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;">destabilizing spectacle of a witch hunt</a> to find the moles?</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Will the President, seeing betrayal at every turn, launch a purge of officials he suspects may not be loyal to his political crusade, further thinning the ranks of a threadbare White House?</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;"><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Trump tried to find his way out of his darkest hour to date by trying to wrest control of his own fate.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">He appeared in the East Room of the White House in an extraordinary display of defiance soon after The New York Times op-ed appeared.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">His appearance was almost noble, though also steeped in pathos, as a wounded leader fought against unseen forces bent on his demise even as he tasted the bile of betrayal that may always have been the inevitable result of his erratic rule.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">"The failing New York Times has an anonymous editorial -- can you believe it?" Trump told a gathering of sheriffs.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">"Anonymous -- meaning gutless. A gutless editorial," the President said, in an appearance in which he laid claim to a record of staggering political success, a roaring economy and building military might.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Later, his mood had darkened and he delivered a truly sinister tweet.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">"Does the so-called 'Senior Administration Official' really exist, or is it just the Failing New York Times with another phony source? If the GUTLESS anonymous person does indeed exist, the Times must, for National Security purposes, turn him/her over to government at once!" Trump wrote.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">The President will step up his counter-attack when he hits the campaign trail in Montana on Thursday night. He is sure of a warm welcome from loyal supporters and the treachery and betrayal of Washington may not resonate so much in Trump country.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">As Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told CNN's Wolf Blitzer: "In my world, where I live in South Carolina, most people are very pleased with what the President is doing," adding that Woodward and The New York Times did not cut much ice among his voters.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">But make no mistake, in Washington at least, Trump is fighting for his presidency, against forces trying to tear it down from within.</div></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 22px; margin: 32px 0px -8px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><br></h3></div></div>

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For almost a decade, South Africa unexpectedly fell into its first recession.

<div class="eyebrow-v2" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.13; font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: capitalize;">Courtesy: Bloomberg</div><div class="eyebrow-v2" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.13; font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: capitalize;">Economics</div><h1 class="lede-text-v2__hed" style="font-size: 32px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-75Bold-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; letter-spacing: -0.025em;">South Africa’s Economy Slips Into First Recession Since 2009</h1><address class="lede-text-v2__byline" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.32; font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;">By <div class="author-v2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline-block;"><a class="author-v2__byline" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ATw8WUj2dpQ/ntando-thukwana" rel="author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s ease-out; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ntando Thukwana</a></div> and <div class="author-v2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline-block;"><a class="author-v2__byline" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/APqJVNJsnlk/ana-monteiro" rel="author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s ease-out; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ana Monteiro</a></div></address><div class="lede-text-v2__times" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.32; font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><time class="article-timestamp" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2018-09-04T09:30:19.822Z" data-type="updated" data-status="localized" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;">September 4, 2018, 10:30 AM GMT+1</time><span class="updated-wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><span class="updated-text" style="margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Updated on </span><time class="article-timestamp" itemprop="dateModified" datetime="2018-09-04T13:28:54.169Z" data-type="updated" data-status="localized" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">September 4, 2018, 2:28 PM GMT+1</time></span></div><div class="lede-text-v2__times" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.32; font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="updated-wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><time class="article-timestamp" itemprop="dateModified" datetime="2018-09-04T13:28:54.169Z" data-type="updated" data-status="localized" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></time></span></div><div class="lede-text-v2__times" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.32; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="updated-wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><time class="article-timestamp" itemprop="dateModified" datetime="2018-09-04T13:28:54.169Z" data-type="updated" data-status="localized" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;">South Africa unexpectedly fell into its first recession for almost a decade, exacerbating the rand’s decline amid the recent emerging-market rout and heaping pressure on President Cyril Ramaphosa.</p><div class="hardwall" data-position="1" style="font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"></div><div class="softwall" data-position="1" style="font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"></div><p style="font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;">Africa’s most-industrialized economy shrank an annualized 0.7 percent in the second quarter, an outcome that was far worse than any forecaster had anticipated. The outcome casts a pall over the country’s new leadership, providing an uncomfortable parallel with the initial phase nine years of Ramaphosa’s predecessor, Jacob Zuma.</p><div class="hardwall" data-position="2" style="font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"></div><div class="softwall" data-position="2" style="font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"></div><p style="font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;">The news underscores the fragility of South Africa’s economy at time when the country has been dragged into the emerging market turmoil of the past month that engulfed Turkey and Argentina. Slack farming output and soft consumer spending were among the weak spots.</p><p style="font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjvjaqw3883i1EqpxAlTcLafDhU6DEjvnGGYGuCbdT9a9DIKD5OyhlL3V6ZnovNgvzRLbUutrIdxDy-n8PWgC6u7Xy16FdDS9mLPA_gBGuy4IVNf_UXy7frI4_ffdmZmgPhIqDgfc4vsI/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjvjaqw3883i1EqpxAlTcLafDhU6DEjvnGGYGuCbdT9a9DIKD5OyhlL3V6ZnovNgvzRLbUutrIdxDy-n8PWgC6u7Xy16FdDS9mLPA_gBGuy4IVNf_UXy7frI4_ffdmZmgPhIqDgfc4vsI/" /></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u style="color: rgb(109, 109, 109); font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; font-weight: bold;"> </u><span style="color: rgb(109, 109, 109); font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; font-weight: bold;">Cyril </span><font face="PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Ramaphosa</font><u style="color: rgb(109, 109, 109); font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; font-weight: bold;"> </u></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; color: rgb(109, 109, 109); font-family: BWHaasText-56Italic, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: inherit;">: </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; color: rgb(109, 109, 109); font-family: BWHaasText-56Italic, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: inherit;">                 Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg</span></p><p style="margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;">Ramaphosa’s rise to power since December initially boosted sentiment and the rand following Zuma’s tenure of almost nine years. That optimism faded as economic reforms weren’t implemented fast enough and global trade wars and turmoil in other emerging markets soured sentiment.</p><div class="hardwall" data-position="4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"></div><div class="softwall" data-position="4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"></div><p style="margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;">“It’s showing that this economy remains in the doldrums, that we are in desperate need for policy certainty and structural reform to get us onto a growth path,” Elize Kruger, an economist at Paarl, South Africa-based NKC African Economics, said by phone. “This type of environment is difficult for job creation. We’ll get stuck in our low-growth term if we can’t get out of this.”</p><p style="margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZk7oX7PmtGFjb1qFUpRxjz9sVGNQCrpa1crm5GX5danyitoM98ufilv7lwW__ZUtV1Dd6C4cOAcl4jdQSw4JJhc_penPZxzVHBG__I36k8uK9dJERCcW73gPRoMjpq7meGehEzOCutgs/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZk7oX7PmtGFjb1qFUpRxjz9sVGNQCrpa1crm5GX5danyitoM98ufilv7lwW__ZUtV1Dd6C4cOAcl4jdQSw4JJhc_penPZxzVHBG__I36k8uK9dJERCcW73gPRoMjpq7meGehEzOCutgs/" /></a></p><p style="margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;">The rand weakened 2.9 percent to 15.2973 per dollar in Johannesburg. Yields on rand-denominated government bonds due December 2026 rose 21 basis points to 9.22 percent, the highest level since before Ramaphosa became leader of the ruling African National Congress.</p><table style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; display: block; overflow-x: auto; width: 280px; font-style: normal;"><colgroup><col class="news-rsf-table-string"></colgroup><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: table; min-width: 100%;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(118, 118, 118); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="news-rsf-table-string" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); min-width: 50px;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-75Bold-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What Our Economist Says</h3></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="news-rsf-table-string" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); min-width: 50px;"><br>“Virtually every component in GDP came in worse than expected, deepening the divergence in improved business sentiment and weakening economic activity. We will reassess our real GDP forecast for 2018, which we have already brought down to 1.2% from 1.5% previously. A reading of 0.5-1.0% now looks more likely.”<br><br>-Mark Bohlund, Bloomberg Economics</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;">A contraction for the fourth quarter of 2016 was later revised to show growth, resulting in this being the first recession since the financial crisis of 2009.</p></time></span></div>

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Flu warfare may look different next year

<h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; font-size: 26px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Flu season is around the corner. Is your family prepared?</h1><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" data-type="byline-area" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);">By Susan Scutti, CNN</p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><span class="timingText" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Updated at</span> 1424 GMT (2224 HKT) September 4, 2018</p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><br></p><h3 class="cnnds_kicker" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 12px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</h3><ul class="styles_list__1_Bwk" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 16px;"><li class="styles_highlight__1bpMD cnnds_txt_small" data-area="normal-highlight" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); font-size: 14px;">The flu shot, not the nasal mist, is first choice for children 6 months and older, pediatrics group says</li><li class="styles_highlight__1bpMD cnnds_txt_small" data-area="normal-highlight" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14px;">Australia is having a "lighter than usual" flu season now, which could indicate what's to come in the US</li></ul><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><br></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><span data-type="sourceText" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><br></span></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><span data-type="sourceText" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">(</span><span data-type="sourceText" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">CNN) — </span><span style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">It's time to call your pediatrician. All children should get a flu shot as soon as it becomes available this season, preferably before the end of October, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends in a<a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2018/08/30/peds.2018-2367" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;"> policy statement</a>published Monday. It also emphasizes that the shot is preferred over the nasal mist.</span></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 16px;">"Everyone over 6 months of age should get their flu vaccine before Halloween," said Atlanta pediatrician Dr. Jennifer Shu, who is a member of the academy but was not involved in the new recommendations. "Don't go trick-or-treating unless you've had your flu shot."</span></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 16px;">Many</span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 16px;"> pediatricians will be offering their patients both the standard flu shot and FluMist nasal spray. The</span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">flu shot </a><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 16px;">contains dead influenza virus strains, while the nasal spray contains weakened viruses.</span></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 16px;">The</span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 16px;"> flu shot is the academy's first choice for children 6 months and older because it has provided the most consistent protection against all strains of the virus in recent years.</span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/nasalspray.htm" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">FluMist</a><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 16px;">may also be used for the 2018-19 season.</span></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9IC6RGiOxdR-Dcsv_5UJJCltsJVrgBMP853i73CMmp17pYSK5xtZY6hyVkenSGOjSpwIuoI2SRR2Xg_yNebIxWOki5VdpW7AQThAl6BwfRtMx2t7An_z6n0GLi9qYtFxnOlf4vNKQ8Sc/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9IC6RGiOxdR-Dcsv_5UJJCltsJVrgBMP853i73CMmp17pYSK5xtZY6hyVkenSGOjSpwIuoI2SRR2Xg_yNebIxWOki5VdpW7AQThAl6BwfRtMx2t7An_z6n0GLi9qYtFxnOlf4vNKQ8Sc/" /></a><br></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><a aria-label="Related Article: Flu vaccine, even when just 20% effective, saves tens of thousands of lives" aria-disabled="false" class="_0308207a _1e227843 " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/04/30/health/vaccine-low-effectiveness-study/index.html" name="Related Article: Flu vaccine, even when just 20% effective, saves tens of thousands of lives" icon="" target="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Related Article:</b></span> Flu vaccine, even when just 20% effective, saves tens of thousands of lives</a><br></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><br></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 17.6px;">The nasal spray has not been recommended for the previous two flu seasons because it was less powerful against some strains of influenza, the pediatrics group said.</span><br></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 17.6px;">She explained that the </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/vacc-specific/flu.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease; font-size: 17.6px;">US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation</a><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 17.6px;"> differs from that of the academy; the CDC says that either the flu shot or FluMist is fine. Parents who are uncertain about which is best for their children should talk it over with their doctors, she added.</span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 17.6px;"><br></span></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 17.6px;"><br></span></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; font-size: 22px;">What a flu vaccine can do for your child</h3><p><span style="font-size: 17.6px;"> In the last flu season, 179 children died, while thousands more were hospitalized with flu-related illness. Eighty percent of the children who died had not received a flu vaccination, according to the CDC.</span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">The flu vaccine reduces a child's risk of developing severe symptoms as well as complications including pneumonia and death, according to the committee of specialists who authored the American Academy of Pediatrics statement.</span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">The2017-18 flu season ranked among the most severe on record, excluding pandemics.</span><span style="font-size: 16px;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recalled that Australia had a "terrible season last year, and in fact, we had a very bad season last year," as well.</span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDudnlrGhx5ZoLzSaYn9JwDGDfFNlxWwOW0w8U6xBvxwPDAJsj6nF97tMEKJXUB0ckEPbPvZeepzDqDcp73M25EF362bLuO5njMr2l2WPC0uDmdQSlFWRd0pj27b6PfEOTbdUzGpbUqdU/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDudnlrGhx5ZoLzSaYn9JwDGDfFNlxWwOW0w8U6xBvxwPDAJsj6nF97tMEKJXUB0ckEPbPvZeepzDqDcp73M25EF362bLuO5njMr2l2WPC0uDmdQSlFWRd0pj27b6PfEOTbdUzGpbUqdU/" /></a></p><p><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px;"><a aria-label="Related Article: CDC graphic novel foreshadows swine flu in California, Michigan" aria-disabled="false" class="_0308207a _1e227843 " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/08/17/health/cdc-flu-detectives-graphic-novel/index.html" icon="" target="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Related Article:</span> CDC graphic novel foreshadows swine flu in California,</a></span><a aria-label="Related Article: CDC graphic novel foreshadows swine flu in California, Michigan" aria-disabled="false" class="_0308207a _1e227843 " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/08/17/health/cdc-flu-detectives-graphic-novel/index.html" name="Related Article: CDC graphic novel foreshadows swine flu in California, Michigan" icon="" target="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Michigan</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">"Eventhough flu</span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> seasons are unpredictable, not always but often, we can get a hint of what we're going to face from what people in Australia and the southern hemispheres have faced in their winter, which is essentially our summer," Fauci said. Looking at </span><a href="http://www.health.gov.au/flureport" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">Australia today,</a><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">the flu season there is "generally lighter than usual."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">"That doesn't mean we are going to definitely parallel Australia. But there's more of a chance than not that we will see something similar to Australia." Still, he cautioned, "their season is not completely over yet."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">"One of the most important things about flu that we all have learned through experience is that it is generally unpredictable," Fauci said. "That's the nature of flu."</span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Because of this random nature, Fauci recommends most everyone get vaccinated against the virus.</span><span style="font-size: 16px;">"</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">"Particularly the people who fall into the high-risk categories: the elderly, young children, pregnant women, those who have chronic illnesses," he said. The </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/high_risk.htm" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">CDC website spells out who falls into the high-risk group</a><span style="font-size: 16px;">, he added.</span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; font-size: 22px;">Age, allergies and antivirals</h3><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Kids 6 months through 8 years need two doses when it is their first time receiving a flu vaccine, but children 9 and older require only one dose, no matter their health history, according to the pediatrics group.</span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Because the flu shot is made using chicken eggs, "it used to be that egg allergy was a concern, but it's not a concern anymore," Shu said, referring to the academy recommendation that everyone, even children with egg allergies, can get the vaccine.</span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">That said, parents who have concerns about allergies or possible reactions to the shot should talk with their doctors, she said.</span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Even though antiviral medications are important in the treatment of flu, they are not a substitute for vaccination, the pediatrics group also advised.</span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhadmvSuYRaxmYGacyY8DJmfKWnJARWBaOLB3uqmc9gAD3ETyV_61MNKajp0Hm8YlgQ0fDvJsCzeJHMD8GnneqjhR5Xy_lmOoUjCBuvM_1cno9udd1BwLg1-gn8xuE1ksaDGiB-gxnVK6E/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhadmvSuYRaxmYGacyY8DJmfKWnJARWBaOLB3uqmc9gAD3ETyV_61MNKajp0Hm8YlgQ0fDvJsCzeJHMD8GnneqjhR5Xy_lmOoUjCBuvM_1cno9udd1BwLg1-gn8xuE1ksaDGiB-gxnVK6E/" /></a></p><p><a aria-label="Related Article: Flu warfare may look different next year" aria-disabled="false" class="_0308207a _1e227843 " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/02/14/health/new-flu-drug-and-flu-related-products/index.html" name="Related Article: Flu warfare may look different next year" icon="" target="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Related Article</b>:</span> Flu warfare may look different next year</span></a><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Faucisaid that there's "a lot of effort and interest now in doing better" with both the seasonal flu vaccine and a </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1714916" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">universal flu vaccine</a><span style="font-size: 16px;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Auniversal flu shot "is not going to come overnight. It's not going to come in a couple of years. It's likely to be an iterative process where we do better each season by getting broader coverage and more potent coverage of influenza."</span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Get <b><u>Driftxposa</u></b> Health's weekly newsletter</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></p></div>

Flu warfare may look different next year

Flu season is around the corner. Is your family prepared? By Susan Scutti, CNN Updated at  1424 GMT (2224 HKT) September 4, 2018 STORY HIGHL...

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