Who wrote the Times op-ed?

Senior government officials hastened Thursday to remove their names from the list of suspects in the national guessing game about the publication of a scathing New York Times editorial portraying President Trump as a danger for the nation. .

The Times described the anonymous author as "a senior Trump administration".

Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday issued statements in which they denied that they or their officials were behind the public opinion.

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S addressing reporters in Orlando, Pence called for the resignation of the author.

"I think it's a shame," Pence said. "The anonymous editorial published in the New York Times represents a new low point of American journalism. And I think the New York Times should be ashamed. And I think that whoever wrote this anonymous editorial should also be ashamed.

He added: "Anyone who writes an anonymous editorial denying this president, who has provided extraordinary leadership to this country, should not work for this administration. They should do the honorable thing and resign.

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"This is not mine," Pompeo told reporters in New Delhi, slamming the newspaper for choosing to publish the opinions of a "nasty, misleading, and bad actor."

National Intelligence Director Dan Coats also said the test was not up to scratch.

"The speculation that the New York Times was written by myself or my senior assistant is patently false," Coats said in a statement. "We have not, from the beginning of our mandate we insisted that the whole [Intelligence Community] Stay focused on our mission to provide the President and policy makers with the best information possible.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of Health and Social Services Alex Azar and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney

"Secretary Nielsen is committed to leading the men and women of DHS and protecting the homeland, not to writing anonymous and falsified opinion pieces for the New York Times," said Tyler Houlton, Press Officer for the New York Times. Nielsen. "These types of political attacks are below the mission of the secretary and the department."

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"No," Haley told journalists before a meeting with the US Security Council.

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Trade Secretary Wilbur Ross also tweeted a denial.

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Team members described White House staff working together to "counteract" Trump's "half-cooked, misinformed, and sometimes reckless" impulses.

"The dilemma – which he does not fully understand – is that many senior officials of his own administration are working diligently from the inside to thwart some parts of his program and his worst inclinations," writes the paper. author of the article. The essay seems to support the central claim of Bob Woodward's forthcoming book, "Fear: Trump in the White House," according to which the president's staff members discredit him secretly for the good of the country.