It Wasn’t Me: Pence, Pompeo and a Parade of Administration Officials Deny Writing Op-Ed

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One by one, they came forward, almost as if in a virtual lineup. Not me, said the vice president. Nor me, said the secretary of state. Or me, said the attorney general.

Almost the entire cabinet and leadership team working for President Trump pleaded not guilty to writing an anonymous essay about plotting against him.

The unnamed author of the essay published by The New York Times was the target of a mole hunt by the president and the subject of an obsessive public guessing game that played out on television, online and in social media. While Mr. Trump and his staff lashed out at the news media, some privately wondered whether it would lead to a shake-up.

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, an ally of Mr. Trump’s, recommended that the president force members of his administration to take polygraph examinations, and there was at least briefly some discussion of that among advisers to the president. Another option mentioned by people close to Mr. Trump was asking senior officials to sign sworn affidavits that could be used in court if necessary. One outside adviser said the White House had a list of about 12 suspects.

The White House condemned the unnamed official and The Times for publishing the essay. “Anyone who would write an anonymous editorial smearing this president who’s provided extraordinary leadership for this country should not be working for this administration,” Vice President Mike Pence said. “They ought to do the honorable thing and they ought to resign.”

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said anyone who wanted to know the identity of “the anonymous coward” should call The Times and she posted on Twitter the newspaper’s main switchboard phone number. “They are the only ones complicit in this deceitful act,” she wrote. “We stand united together and fully support our President Donald J. Trump.” Read more at the New York Times.

{Matzav.com}


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