Current CNN tally of Trump officials denying they are anonymous NYT writer

[fleur-de-lisa]

Jim Acosta ✔ @Acosta

Current CNN tally of Trump officials denying they are anonymous NYT writer... Pence, Pompeo, Mattis, Mnuchin, Haley, Coats, Sessions, Azar, Alex Acosta, Wheeler, Nielsen, Haspel, Wilkie, Perdue, Perry, Mulvaney have all released statements personally or through their offices.

12:44 PM - Sep 6, 2018

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Ross and Carson added to the list - see Post #8.

[NurseJackie]

1. Well, DUH! It's because s/he wants to remain anonymous.

Well, DUH! It's because s/he wants to remain anonymous.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Meaning It Can Be Any One or More Of Those Names

But, it does mean somebody is likely lying.

[NurseJackie]

17. It was: Pence... in the Library... with the Lead Pipe.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. I Was Going To Go With Candelabra

Other than that, i think we're onto something.

[matt819]

27. Aliar? In this regime?

Who'd'a thunk it?

[ProfessorGAC]

28. Wild Speculation On My Part

OK, not so wild.

[bearsfootball516]

2. Have to imagine someone is lying.

It's not like, if CNN reached out to them and asked, the person would say "Yes, it was me!"

It was anonymous for a reason.

[R B Garr]

3. Deep throats! Not just one.

[Brother Buzz]

13. I'm Spartacus!

[R B Garr]

18. Exactly! So good, I had to watch it again.

[htuttle]

4. "Mother says it's okay to tell a lie in the service of The Lord."

[haele]

5. That's why I think it was Miller or maybe even Bannon stirring shit.

The others are either too stupid to write something like that, or too smart to write something like that. This is to get someone or a group of someones fired on the heels of the Woodward book.



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[NorCen_CT]

7. and, finding the author has become the focus of the media, not the contents of the letter

[spanone]

29. seems it's trump's focus

[fleur-de-lisa]

8. Ross and Carson added to the list.

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

9. Well, it's time for a big cabinet meeting and a round of loyalty oaths

[C_U_L8R]

10. Just because someone says they didn't write it

doesn't mean they didn't dictate it. There are a lot of republican lawyers in this bunch - they'll wiggle through anything.

[honest.abe]

11. Because it was a group effort.

No one person wrote it.. so plausible deniability for any individual to say they "did not write it".

[phylny]

19. I was thinking the same thing!

[JI7]

12. how about Kudlow and Conway ?

[fleur-de-lisa]

14. If it was me, I would make sure I wasn't the first to deny writing the Op-Ed.

But I wouldn't be the last either.

The guilty person will lie somewhere in the middle.

[MineralMan]

15. The New York Times knows who it is.

It will not remain a secret forever, so those who are claiming the didn't do it probably includes the one who did. We'll know eventually. Watch out for the ones who haven't personally say it wasn't them. it will be one of them, most likely.

We haven't heard from Ivanka or her hubby yet, either, I think.

We'll find out.

[Solly Mack]

16. Their denials won't lessen Trump's paranoia.

And that's fairly hilarious.

The fact that a president's cabinet members and staff even have to issue denials is also fairly hilarious.

Who called me unfit?

Not me, boss.

Wasn't me, boss.

Didn't do it, boss.

And on and on it goes, as the bows get deeper and the light steps across the egg shell explosives become fainter and fainter.

Someone, somewhere is snickering.

[mainstreetonce]

21. The NY Times should wait

Till every possible person has posted a denial and then publish

Hmmmm. really?

[fleur-de-lisa]

24. Oh that would be delicious! n/t

[GusBob]

25. The NYT did not rule out further Op-Eds from the guy

Wait until everyone denies it and have the guy say, yeah I am one of the deniers

[Roland99]

22. No Kelly?

[maryellen99]

26. No denial from Linda McMahon either

[trof]

30. OR Sarah Sanders

Hmmm

[Kaleva]

23. No denials yet from Jared and Ivanka?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

31. Mark Felt denied being Deep Throat, too.

[Croney]

32. No Elaine Chao?

[tavernier]

33. Ok. It was me.

I just wanted to see them all sweating.