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Title: NSC adviser 'is to be reassigned' amid DC rumors SHE is the infamous 'Anonymous' behind anti-Trump NYTimes op-ed and book 'A Warning'
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URL Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar ... mors-author-NYTimes-op-ed.html
Published: Feb 19, 2020
Author: VALERIE EDWARDS
Post Date: 2020-02-19 06:03:06 by WWG1WWA
Keywords: Anonymous, anti-Trump
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*Deputy national security adviser Victoria Coates may be reassigned to a position in the Department of Energy from the National Security Council *In recent weeks, it has been rumored that Coates is author of anonymous op- ed *The infamous op-ed was published in the New York Times in September 2018 *Last year, the same Anonymous person published tell-all book called, A Warning *Despite the rumors about Coates, she isn't known to disagree with the president's foreign policies, which doesn't make her a good fit for Anonymous Deputy national security adviser Victoria Coates may be reassigned to the Department of Energy amid rumors that she is reportedly the author of the infamous New York Times anonymous op-ed. Top officials from President Donald Trump's administration are reportedly discussing Coates' reassignment, according to a report from Axios. The possible move comes just weeks after Coates was accused of being behind the Times article, 'I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,' that was published in September 2018, as well as a book titled, A Warning, that was released in November 2019. Sources claimed that Coates had begun to fear for her job despite being recently promoted by national security adviser Robert O’Brien. However, Coates, who is a former aide to Republican Sen Ted Cruz, isn't known to disagree with Trump's foreign policies, which doesn't make her a good fit for Anonymous. Coates, who is an art historian, is a political appointee to the Trump administration. Earlier this month, book agents for A Warning denied rumors that Coates is Anonymous. 'To be very clear so there is no chance of any misunderstanding: Dr Coates is not Anonymous,' Matt Latimer, the co-founder of literary agency Javelin, told Politico. 'She does not know who Anonymous is. We have never discussed Anonymous or the book, A Warning, with her prior to its publication. She did not write it, edit it, see it in advance, know anything about it, or as far as we know ever read it,' he said in a statement. The back of the book's cover reads: 'The truth about the president must be spoken, not after Americans have stood in the voting booth to consider whether to give him another term and not after he has departed office. 'Hopefully others will remedy the error of silence and choose to speak out.' In September 2018, the author of the Times column was identified only as a 'senior official' from inside the Trump administration, a broad category that became the basis of a guessing game inside the capital beltway. Trump attacked the author at the time, suggesting alternatively that the op- ed might be an act of treason, and that the author might be a fictitious creation of the Times rather than a real person. 'Does the so-called “Senior Administration Official” really exist, or is it just the Failing New York Times with another phony source?' he tweeted at the time. 'If the GUTLESS anonymous person does indeed exist, the Times must, for National Security purposes, turn him/her over to government at once!' Trump also tweeted at the time a single word: 'TREASON?' The Times op-ed described the president as 'impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective' in the way he manages the government, and says the author is part of an organized 'resistance' whose goal is 'to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Trump's more misguided impulses until he is out of office'. During a White House event with a group of sheriffs, Trump said the writer was 'probably... failing and probably here for all the wrong reasons'. Sarah Sanders, then the White House press secretary said in a statement at the time that the essay was 'pathetic, reckless, and selfish' and challenged the Times to 'issue an apology.' 'This is just another example of the liberal media's concerted effort to discredit the President,' she said at the time. Since the publication of the op-ed in 2018 and the book last year, others have been accused of being Anonymous. The former speechwriter to Jim Mattis who wrote a tell-all about his time in the Pentagon has denied a suggestion he is also the author of the Anonymous op-ed and book about Donald Trump's White House - after allowing speculation to swirl for a full day. Guy Snodgrass said in November that he was not the writer, addressing head- on a claim by the man who had previously correctly outed Joe Klein as the author of Primary Colors, the 1996 roman a clef about Bill Clinton's presidential campaign. 'No, I'm not the writer,' Snodgrass told CNN at the time. 'They asked me the question, I kind of batted it away. I thought it'd be asked and we'd be done… To put it to rest, no I'm not the author of 'A Warning,' I'm not the Anonymous op-ed writer.'
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