Top Trump Official Behind Anonymous NYT Op-Ed Is Publishing An Exposé

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with President Sauli Niinistö of Finland at the White House on August 28, 2017. (Photo credit: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
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Remember that New York Times op-ed penned by an anonymous senior Trump administration official that threw the White House into a frenzy last year?

Apparently he or she’s got more to say.

Twelve Books, a publishing company under Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book
Group, announced on Tuesday that it will publish a tell-all written by the anonymous official on November 19.

The publisher described the expose as a “unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency.”

“Picking up from where those first words of warning left off, this explosive book offers a shocking, first-hand account of President Trump and his record,” the publishing company wrote in the press release.

In the op-ed, titled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” the unnamed senior official described how he/she and some other top officials are quietly working to “frustrate parts of [Trump’s] agenda and his worst inclinations.”

However, the official emphasized that he/she was not part of the left-wing “Resistance” movement and that his/her rebellion was a response to Trump’s “leadership style,” not necessarily his policies (which the official applauded as making country “safer and more prosperous”).

Though the op-ed was published in September 2018, Trump and his allies have still failed to root out the renegade official thus far.

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  1. So much for their efforts of finding out who the person was the first time around I guess.

  2. Fuck that. Pussy. Tell us who you are or go fuck yourself.

    After three long fucking years I think we all got enough to go on. We get the gist by now. Its evil, its corrupt, and he’s a money-grubbing insane asshole. What more can you tell us that we don’t already know?

  3. Rather than “Anonymous”, a more appropriate pen name would be “Cowardly”

  4. Frankly, I don’t really care to find out the identity of “Derp Throat.”

  5. I think Anonymous is not a person, they’re a group. A good editor can turn multiple accounts into one voice. That’s why the White House can’t find them, won’t find them this time either. If no one person is present at all events described, nobody can be fingered.

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