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[slupert]

am i the only one that saw a "me thinks the lady doth protest too much" response for question aboiut he being the writer of that article?

[ryanoo]

Or Pence?

 

Who has denied any involvement?

So far, officials who have said they did not write the editorial include:

• Defence Secretary James Mattis
• Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
• Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats
• Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
• Secretary for Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen
• Secretary for Housing Ben Carson
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions
• Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley
• Office of Management and Budget Director Mike Mulvaney
• Secretary for Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie
• Labour Secretary Alex Acosta
• CIA Director Gina Haspel
• Energy Secretary Rick Perry
• Counsellor Kellyanne Conway
• Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler
• Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue
• Small Business Administration chief Linda McMahon
• Health Secretary Alex Azar
• Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao
• Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross

[Data]

They think it's Pence or Mattis since they're known to frequently use words that were found in the opinion piece.  My guess is that it was ghost-written after talking to a number of people in the administration.  It is composite picture instead of a single individual.

[claire]

Kudlow is a late arrival to the WH.  The author appears to have been there much longer.

[SemiBizz]

They are just cuing up a "liberal Q anon"... now they can have the "persona" make comments on current events...

 

No reason for this to just stop abruptly...

[diogenes227]

 

Or Pence?

 

Who has denied any involvement?

So far, officials who have said they did not write the editorial include:

• Defence Secretary James Mattis
• Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
• Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats
• Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
• Secretary for Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen
• Secretary for Housing Ben Carson
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions
• Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley
• Office of Management and Budget Director Mike Mulvaney
• Secretary for Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie
• Labour Secretary Alex Acosta
• CIA Director Gina Haspel
• Energy Secretary Rick Perry
• Counsellor Kellyanne Conway
• Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler
• Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue
• Small Business Administration chief Linda McMahon
• Health Secretary Alex Azar
• Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao
• Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross

 

 

They're all a pack of liars.  I say fire them all. Trump is so great he can run everything all by himself (just ask hm...no, wait, he'll get around to telling you that himself in the middle of some rant or some rave).

 

By the way, what is that "labour" thing?  Are you a Brit or something?

[Data]

By dropping different clues to different identities, it's meant to make Trump distrust his staff.  It sounds like the CIA penned the article to undermine the administration.  He becomes a puppet of the hard-liners by doing their dirty work.

[diogenes227]

By dropping different clues to different identities, it's meant to make Trump distrust his staff.  It sounds like the CIA penned the article to undermine the administration.  He becomes a puppet of the hard-liners by doing their dirty work.

 

The CIA didn't even cross my mind, which shows how good it is at this kind of stuff.  The last President who had a relationship with the US intelligence services as bad this one has got shot in Dallas.

[pdx5]

This is so easy to find out! Give them all a lie detector test after injecting a liberal dose of truth serum 

[fib_1618]

Give them all a lie detector test after injecting a liberal dose of truth serum

 

Boy, talk about the very definition of an oxymoron...nice job!!

 

Since we are playing this game of supposition, and aside the fact that what was written in the memo has been part of the daily talking points for both the New York Times and Washington Post for over 18 months now (including the "unnamed source" and no facts are provided in the statement) there are two "high level" staff and/or cabinet members who haven't (as of this writing) said a word either way: John Kelly and Jeff Sessions.

 

My opinion (whether that actually matters or not), based on the structural content of the note, and going with the idea that this was not written "in house" at the Times, this has all the earmarks of Jon Huntsman, Jr., the current Ambassador to Russia and former Governor of Utah.

 

Fib