The NY Times Op-Ed piece by a White House insider has led to much speculation about the possible author (or authors).
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Should there be an OFFICIAL (main TER page) POLL asking who participants think it is?  Or maybe just a Thread in the P&R Discussion Board ("Who wrote the NYT Op-Ed?") to ask people to post names ONLY in the subject line (additional text or commentary allowed? Not allowed? in the message section).
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Having read suggestions on-line, I am leaning towards Pence. He can't be fired by POTUS; he can only be removed by Congress (impeachment). But I also like Ivanka as a possibility . And Jeff Sessions, as payback, but he is not IN the White House.  So I'm leaning towards Pence.
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I think the Op-Ed, Bernstein's book, Omaraosa's "unhinged" and all the other self-consistent stories and leaks (Tillerson: "Trump is a moron." Kelly: "Trump is an idiot.") are credible and consistent with the public Trump. I am grateful that people in the White House are risking their jobs to do what they think they have to do to protect the Nation from Trump. To use a sports analogy, it's like everyone there is truly giving 110% to make up for the captain and weakest player on the team ... who owns the ball and will take it away if they don't let him play.  They want the TEAM to win, even if it makes the captain look better than he is.

I am betting on Pence.  
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NAME or NAMES ONLY in the subject line, please.
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Someone pointed out to me via PM that the names of lower level staffers might not be known to the general public as well as those in the headline news day after day. In that case, there needs to be a way to bet on the "field" of lower lever possibilities. Maybe just "Lower level staffer" or some better designator is needed. For those who don't believe that the NY Times Op Ed is authentic, maybe put FAKE in the subject line.  
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Thank you.

All of the actual "senior" staff are falling all over themselves to be among the first to deny it's them, I find it highly unlikely that any of them had a thing to do with anything this chicken shit. Jeff Sessions is the only "higher up" weasley enough to do this, but he's not actually "in" the White House, so he can't be the culprit.

 
As a betting man, I would give even money that the story is indeed "fake news" and that either the Times ran yet another unvetted story or created this "anonymous" senior staffer out of thin air. It's not like the Times can still claim that they are above this kind of thing as their credibility level since Trump came on the scene is about as high as that of the National Enquirer.

Pence, Sessions, Mattis & Kelly are part of the inside resistance;

Sessions and Pence have motive.  Sessions would like to keep his job and Pence secretly wants to be President.

From the dozens of false and/or plagiarized columns from Jason Blair, to their John McCain cheated on his wife, front page above the fold debacle, the Slimes rep has been on life support for ages.

 
Just another unnamed source hit piece with ZERO proof from a liberal rag. How convenient.

The rest of  world use to look up to America  - now we are the laughing stock of the universe. Everywhere I go people are asking how did you all end up with such as DUMBO and  out of 320 million people is that the best you can find.

I  tell them that it's  a racist reaction to having a black president and that these people are devils .

He is a master of self promotion.