Lawrence O'Donnell thinks the NYT op-ed writer is Dan Coats

[highplainsdem]

[avebury]

1. He makes a good argument for why

He thinks it's Coates.

[highplainsdem]

2. Yes. The Weekly Standard had Coats with three other candidates, too.

[KewlKat]

3. I like how he drilled down and I too think it's Dan

[bdamomma]

4. hmm...

could be. We know trump doesn't watch MSNBC hopefully.

[Towlie]

5. Anyone else have Sympathy for the Devil going through their head?

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game

[orangecrush]

7. yup

[orangecrush]

14. ...

[Xipe Totec]

6. Who's the only person Trump is desperately trying to force to resign?

Who's the only one who's resignation would actually help Trump?

Hint: It's not Dan Coats.

There's only one person in the cabinet who has a legitimate reason for staying in his post because resigning would be worse than staying.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

10. But if you read Sessions' writings,

This is NOT his style. It doesn't read like him.

[Xipe Totec]

11. It would not be a smart move to write in his normal voice, would it?

And this entire cabinet has a history of writing in other people's styles to draw suspicion away from them.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

16. Sessions doesn't work IN the White House.

He's over at Justice and their down the road at 950. And I doubt he'd be snatching papers off the Resolute Desk. Without being seen.

[Xipe Totec]

17. He's a member of the cabinet - don't be so literal. nt

[JI7]

19. but even then it would not be that different.

[mnhtnbb]

8. Seems like a very reasonable guess.

[highplainsdem]

12. I thought so, too.

[LiberalFighter]

9. He made the argument.

[BigmanPigman]

13. DUers said it was him earlier today.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11098317

[honest.abe]

18. Makes sense.

[Garrett78]

20. I think Coats is the "I," but it was essentially written by him and several others.

Coats is the one willing to fall on the sword if it comes to that (because this will be his last job). He and the others, of course, think they're doing something heroic. In reality, they're all cowards. And they're all assholes who actually think deregulation, tax cuts for the wealthy, the military industrial complex, and so on, are positives.