It Wasn't Me: Pence, Pompeo, Mattis and Mnuchin Deny Writing Anonymous Op-Ed

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — A day after a senior administration official described President Trump as amoral, impetuous, petty and ineffective in an anonymous essay, the denials from the upper echelon of the administration started to roll in.

The mystery writer is not Vice President Mike Pence, a spokesman said Thursday. “Our office is above such amateur acts,” the vice president’s spokesman, Jarrod Agen, said in a morning Twitter post, referring to the Op-Ed published on Wednesday in The New York Times.

“It is not mine,” Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, said.

“Patently false,” said Dan Coats, the national intelligence director, responding to rumors that he or his principal deputy wrote the piece. “We did not.”

Press officers for the secretaries of the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Treasury and Housing and Urban Development also issued denials on behalf of their bosses.

The author, whose identity is known to The Times editorial page department but was not shared with the reporters who cover the White House, describes him or herself as one of many senior officials in the Trump administration who are “working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/it-wasnt-me-pence-pompeo-mattis-and-mnuchin-deny-writing-anonymous-op-ed/ar-BBMWMZn?li=BBnb7Kz

[hlthe2b]

1. So too denied Deep Throat W. Mark Felt in 1974 to WSJ, only to be proven to be decades later

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Has Gen. Kelly denied it yet?

Of course, Mark Felt denied being Deep Throat for more than 30 years, so just a denial doesn't prove anything. Deep State Throat could be anybody, including the people who have denied it.

[dalton99a]

3. It was a Republican POS who supported the tax scam, Gorsuch & Kavanaugh, the killing of Obamacare.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

4. Cue the Shaggy song

It wasn’t me ...