2/18/2020

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “President Donald Trump said Tuesday [2-18-20] he knows the identity of the author known as ‘Anonymous,’ the senior administration official who wrote an inside-the-White House account that painted the president as inept and dangerous. Trump’s claim comes as speculation has grown inside Washington about the identity of the official who penned the book ‘A Warning’ as well as an eviscerating 2018 essay in The New York Times about the president’s ‘misguided impulses’ In the book, published by the Hachette Book Group in November, the writer claims senior administration officials considered resigning as a group in 2018 in a ‘midnight self-massacre,’ but ultimately decided such an act would do more harm than good.”

Aamer Madhani, “Trump says he knows identity of ‘Anonymous’ tell-all writer,” Associated Press, February 18, 2020