JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S FUMING OVER NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED – WHY I THINK THE WHITE HOUSE WON’T BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY ITS AUTHOR

John Chuckman

COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN CBC NEWS

 

“Trump fumes over NYT op-ed as top administration officials deny writing it”  

 

There are various efforts underway to discover who did this, both inside the administration and outside by curious reporters, but I think they are likely doomed.

Whoever did this is undoubtedly an intelligent person, and he or she would have taken precautions against discovery.

The person would have had his or her notes re-written by someone else, so that there would be no clues in the use of words or syntax.

The person re-writing the author’s notes may even have been staff at The New York Times.

This would also provide plausible denial when a member of Trump’s staff is asked whether he or she wrote what was printed.

This is just too high-level and risky to have been done in a fashion that would allow discovery from written language.

It is simply a gobsmacking political event, and coming, as it does, on top of other embarrassing revelations in books, Trump will not be able to fully recover his composure. His is a monstrous ego that cannot take deadly embarrassment well.