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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
(42,862 posts)Well, DUH! It's because s/he wants to remain anonymous.
ProfessorGAC
(65,128 posts)But, it does mean somebody is likely lying.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,128 posts)Other than that, i think we're onto something.
matt819
(10,749 posts)Who'd'a thunk it?
ProfessorGAC
(65,128 posts)OK, not so wild.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)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
(16,966 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,450 posts)R B Garr
(16,966 posts)htuttle
(23,738 posts)haele
(12,665 posts)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.
Haele
NorCen_CT
(176 posts)spanone
(135,857 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)dalton99a
(81,564 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,014 posts)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
(8,680 posts)No one person wrote it.. so plausible deniability for any individual to say they "did not write it".
phylny
(8,383 posts)JI7
(89,260 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)But I wouldn't be the last either.
The guilty person will lie somewhere in the middle.
MineralMan
(146,324 posts)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
(90,778 posts)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
(4,178 posts)Till every possible person has posted a denial and then publish
Hmmmm. really?
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Wait until everyone denies it and have the guy say, yeah I am one of the deniers
Roland99
(53,342 posts)maryellen99
(3,789 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)Hmmm
Kaleva
(36,320 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,382 posts)Croney
(4,661 posts)tavernier
(12,395 posts)I just wanted to see them all sweating.