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Here's 'Anonymous,' Trump Aides Say. And Here's How They Outed Her.
RCP Investigation ^ | 4-15-2020 | Paul Sperry

Posted on 04/15/2020 6:18:26 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

Ever since a “senior official in the Trump administration” penned an anonymous 2018 New York Times column attacking President Trump as unfit for office, Washington has been engrossed in a high-stakes whodunit. After an exhaustive investigation, the White House believes it’s cracked the case, identifying Trump's turncoat as his former deputy national security adviser, Victoria Coates, according to people familiar with the internal probe.

Rather than fire Coates, the White House has quietly transferred her to the Department of Energy, where she awaits special assignment in Saudi Arabia -- far from the president.

Trump effectively demoted Coates just four months after promoting her last fall to the No. 2 spot on his National Security Council. The move was made amid a whisper campaign, started in January, that identified Coates as “Anonymous,” the person who wrote the Times Op-Ed and a subsequent book, “A Warning,” claiming to be part of a cabal of “fellow Republicans" resisting Trump and his policies from inside the administration.

The Washington press corps has for the most part been uninterested in learning the author’s identity. But the sources said the identification of Coates was based on circumstantial evidence generated from a months-long White House investigation led by sleuths within the NSC. Top White House adviser Peter Navarro, who works with the NSC on trade and other issues, also was heavily involved in the probe of Coates.

She declined to discuss the matter on the record with RealClearInvestigations and has retained an attorney, friends say, although several colleagues have rushed to her defense, insisting the White House has the wrong person. But a source involved in the NSC probe who asked not to be identified said there was little doubt. “It’s her,” the source said of Coates. “That’s why she was shown the door.”

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearinvestigations.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: anonymous; leak; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nsc; paulsperry; peternavarro; saudiarabia; trumpaide; trumpnsc; victoriacoates; whistleblower
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>>> Rather than fire Coates, the White House has quietly transferred her to the Department of Energy, where she awaits special assignment in Saudi Arabia -- far from the president. <<<<

The gal could still make mischiefs in SA.

More fitting reassignment for her, if it were up to me.

1 posted on 04/15/2020 6:18:26 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

Related to Dan Coates?


2 posted on 04/15/2020 6:21:05 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Sir Napsalot

Or special envoy to Wuhan.


3 posted on 04/15/2020 6:21:24 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: Sir Napsalot

4 posted on 04/15/2020 6:21:54 AM PDT by z3n
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To: Sir Napsalot

I hear the US base in the North Pole is great this time of the year, for traitors, snakes, and skunks.


5 posted on 04/15/2020 6:22:09 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Sir Napsalot

“special assignment in Saudi Arabia”

LOL...Love it!


6 posted on 04/15/2020 6:22:16 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Sir Napsalot

If Trump knows that it is Coates I am surprised he has managed to avoid talking about it.


7 posted on 04/15/2020 6:22:42 AM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: Sir Napsalot

btt


8 posted on 04/15/2020 6:22:49 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Send the bitch to Diego Garcia.

L


9 posted on 04/15/2020 6:23:13 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

10 posted on 04/15/2020 6:23:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Because every sensible superpower appoints an Art Historian to run their global geo-political military policy.

Insane.


11 posted on 04/15/2020 6:23:42 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Sir Napsalot

She deserves a Georgi Markov style fate.


12 posted on 04/15/2020 6:23:52 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Navarro is a national treasure.

And personnel continues to be Trump’s main weakness.


13 posted on 04/15/2020 6:25:18 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: z3n

That was the image I was searching for. For a whole 10 min, but couldn’t find it.

Thanks. Now I’m saving this.


14 posted on 04/15/2020 6:27:05 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Special Envoy to the Central African Republic would be an excellent assignment for her.


15 posted on 04/15/2020 6:28:15 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Sir Napsalot

In the middle of the article there is a link that is supposed to go to the “Anonymous” NYT op-ed.

But the test of the link is “c:UserstomkuntzDownloadswith the hedline”

So even though Tom Kuntz’s name is not on the article he must have been involved
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/authors/tom_kuntz/


16 posted on 04/15/2020 6:29:13 AM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: z3n

Exactly Stripes Part Deux


17 posted on 04/15/2020 6:29:26 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

It sure is hard to fire civil servants.


18 posted on 04/15/2020 6:29:29 AM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: Sir Napsalot

If you can’t fire her (why not?), then just create a new position in the DOE Saudi Arabia location with a salary of $250 per month. Her title would be special assistant to the administrative assistant to the paper clip inventory manager.


19 posted on 04/15/2020 6:30:15 AM PDT by Let_It_Be_So (Once you see the Truth, you cannot "unsee" it, no matter how hard you may try.)
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To: Regulator
I know, right?

From No. 2 spot on National Security Council to reassignment at DoE (energy), that tells me diddly-squat about her specialty.

20 posted on 04/15/2020 6:30:36 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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