What if the actual author of the NYTimes op ed is trump himself? Just asking, ya know?

[Augiedog]

Then he could accuse Sessions of having been the author and fire him. Machiavellian!!!!

[True Dough]

1. I would hope

that the NY Times had confirmed the identity of the authority for the sake of journalistic credibility. I don't think they'd play along with Trump's charade if they knew it was him, but I suppose they could have been duped by one of his cronies on his behalf?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. The NYT knows who the writer is. Otherwise they wouldn't have published the op-ed.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Yes. But did the tone/wording sound "off" to you? I heard it for the first time

read on CNN. One thing stuck out to me....the "we've accomplished a lot" or something like that. That is total utter bullshit. they have not. Any of the 16? Republicans who ran against Trump would have signed the tax bill into law - and even better for their side - they would have had input.

what they tout is "deregulation". Which sounds good on paper.

It is up to us, and our candidates, to research that and see what horrible things underlie "deregulation."

that said, whoever wrote the OpEd - it must have been several people, IMHO. The cadence was all way off and more like multiple voices/thoughts combined.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. The writer is apparently a Reaganite Republican who is all in favor

of the usual Republican principles of low taxes and deregulation. He(?) seems to have a particular interest in economic policy and national security, and he said he was one of an unstated number of administration officials who were disturbed that Trump is so totally mental that he's fucking up everything, including what these devoted GOPers want to accomplish.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. Munuchin? Na....people on twitter say it's a military guy because of words they used. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Lawrence O'Donnell believes it's Dan Coats

and he makes a very good case for that guess.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. I'll have to catch that online. Just reading his twitter and wiki pages - he seems too

much like a lightweight non-intellectual conformer to do something that "out-of-the-box"?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. LOL! Trump doesn't know most of those words.

And he could never bear to say mean things about himself, even as a sort of Reichstag Fire maneuver.

[GP6971]

5. Agree...it was too articulate

and his aides probably wouldn't have written it for him. Too many big words for him to understand.

[FM123]

8. I'm pretty sure trumpy has never even heard of the word "lodestar"

[IphengeniaBlumgarten]

4. Writing style is too literate and coherent. nt

[ecstatic]

6. You can't be serious! trump can barely read, and his ego would never

allow him to write such an article, even using his 5th grade vocabulary.

[NCTraveler]

7. I think it's a possibility.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211097753

It could be used as an excuse to fire a number of big name people at one time. I think we are close to a point in his paranoia that he will soon have himself surrounded by family and a few select friends.

[Agschmid]

9. The NY Times would never publish it if he was the author.

[NCTraveler]

10. There are any number of people who could have delivered it.

There is no way to know. I would say it’s not very likely.

[PSPS]

11. It was published anonymously, not received anonymously. The NYT knows who wrote it.

[dalton99a]

12. NYT editor said he spoke to the author to verify.