"Anonymous"

[George K]

Remember this?

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/the_new_coffee_room/this-is-what-trump-has-done-to-the-brains-of-the-l-t117580.html#p1490975

It was Miles Taylor. Yup, you read that right. THE Miles Taylor. Yeah, HIM!! The guy whom the New York Times described as a "Senior Administration Official."

Er...no. At the time he wrote it, he was a DHS policy advisor, whatever that is.

[Loki]

I had no cheap scotch left to spit out.

Another smoking gun that everyone believed that wasn’t even a nerf gun.

NYT has nearly reduced itself to what the CIA and FBI call chatter...unverifiable rumors from shady sources.

[George K]

Remember, "It's Jared!"

"No! It's Ivanka!"

"No, it's Kelly!"

"Wankers....it's MELANIA!!"

[Axtremus]

@George-K said in "Anonymous":

It was Miles Taylor. Yup, you read that right. THE Miles Taylor. Yeah, HIM!! The guy whom the New York Times described as a "Senior Administration Official."

Er...no. At the time he wrote it, he was a DHS policy advisor, whatever that is.

Miles Taylor was Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of Homeland Security.

Of course you can continue to debate that qualifies as "Senior Administration Official."

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in "Anonymous":

"Wankers....it's MELANIA!!"

Real Melania or fake Melania?

[George K]

@Axtremus said in "Anonymous":

Miles Taylor was Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of Homeland Security.

Not when he wrote it.

And here's what a REAL Senior White House official has to say about that:

[Loki]

Of course the NYT way way over played their hand. You’d expect such muck raking from a lessor news source.

Ax in defending the NYT is simply defending NYT as another country heard from as opposed to a gold standard or “paper of record”.

[Axtremus]

@George-K said in "Anonymous":

@Axtremus said in "Anonymous":

Miles Taylor was Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of Homeland Security.

Not when he wrote it.

He was Deputy Chief of Staff when he wrote to op-ed.
Sure, you can still continue to debate whether that qualifies as "Senior Administration Official".

[George K]

@Axtremus said in "Anonymous":

He was Deputy Chief of Staff when he wrote to op-ed.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-yorks-daily-memo-anonymous-caper-ends-in-disgrace-for-writer-new-york-times

In the final days before the election, "Anonymous" has come out. He is Miles Taylor, who at the time he wrote the op-ed was a policy adviser in the Department of Homeland Security. (He later became chief of staff.) The first reaction of nearly everyone was to ask, "Who?" Taylor, a mid-level bureaucrat, was not the top official the Times suggested he was and all of Washington assumed him to be. He didn't have the sort of daily contact with President Trump that readers guessed. In short, "Anonymous" was far less than he seemed.

The op ed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Part_of_the_Resistance_Inside_the_Trump_Administration

Sept 5, 2018.

Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Trump_administration_dismissals_and_resignations

[George K]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/06/politics/new-york-times-op-ed-donald-trump/index.html

it's telling that the Times was willing to extend the cloak of anonymity to this author -- especially, again, because of the stakes and the target. This is not a decision made lightly. That the decision was made to publish it should tell you that this isn't some disgruntled mid-to-upper manager buried in the bureaucracy. This is a genuine high-ranking official. A name most people who follow politics -- and maybe some who don't -- would recognize. The Times simply wouldn't do what it did for anything short of a major figure in Trump world.

That hasn't aged well, has it?