I feel like sharing this tweet from a leading Washington, D.C., journalist.
So, here is what Karen Tumulty writes: My 2 cents: It is hard to imagine the NYT would have given anonymity on something like this to someone who was not at least as high as a cabinet secretary or assistant to the president.
Whoever wrote the essay that appeared today in The New York Times is no mid-level staffer. He or she very likely is someone with direct daily access to Donald John Trump.
I don’t yet know where all this is going. Much of it will depend on whether the president learns who it is. And what he’ll do about it. Does he fire the individual on the spot and thus, expose that person’s identity to the world?
I’ve read this op-ed column twice. I suspect it’s going to be an even better read the more I read it.
As for Tumulty’s belief about the NY Times’s decision to run this piece without attribution, a newspaper of such stature and standing doesn’t dare hand out this space without ironclad knowledge that the author knows of which he or she is writing.