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Kellyanne Predicts What Will Happen to Anonymous Op-ed Writer
Townhall.com ^ | September 10, 2018 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 09/10/2018 3:17:32 PM PDT by Kaslin

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has "no idea" who the mysterious New York Times op-ed author is, but she knows what will become of him or her. The author, reportedly a "senior official" in the Trump administration, will be outed, Conway predicted on "Fox & Friends" Monday morning.

“Cowards are like criminals – they eventually suss out themselves because they eventually confess or brag to the wrong person, and I suspect that’s what will happen here.” -@KellyannePolls on anonymous NYT op-ed writer pic.twitter.com/FRiFqKmH4w— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) September 10, 2018

The author, who she calls "unimpressive," wanted to be a martyr. But, what he or she wasn't expecting, was to be ridiculed by all political stripes. The author "doesn't have the courage" to come forward, but their conceit will do the job for them, she said.

"Cowards are like criminals," Conway explained. "They eventually suss out themselves because they eventually confess or brag to the wrong person."

Plenty of people have speculated, but the op-ed writer's identity remains a mystery. What we do have, is several officials insisting the op-ed did not come from their pen. Vice President Mike Pence, for instance, has been tied to the op-ed because the word "lodestar," a word he has used several times, appears in the piece. But he has repeatedly denied the charge. On Sunday, he even offered to take a lie detector test.

I would agree to take a polygraph test "in a heartbeat," Pence told Fox News's Chris Wallace over the weekend. A White House-wide lie detector testing, however, would be "up to the president."

The op-ed writer "should resign" for their "un-American" piece, Pence said.

"They're literally violating an oath," he said. "If they're that senior administration official, they're violating an oath, not to the president, but to the Constitution."

Both Pence and Conway suggested that the op-ed author is trying to distract voters from the booming economy.

The guessing game continues.


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I will say that a strong lead like Hill (or Boot) is a hell of a good way to stomp the ant mound ... because the author knows someone in Dan Coat's kingdom could spend about 2 minutes on keystrokes and have the answer.
41 posted on 09/10/2018 5:34:50 PM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Bob wrote it. It is full of his anonymously sourced crapola


42 posted on 09/10/2018 5:40:40 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Kaslin

Suppose you had run a PAC that did very strongly anti-Trump ads.
Suppose your spouse regularly tweeted against Trump.
Suppose you were in President Trump’s inner circle.

Would you be a good candidate?


43 posted on 09/10/2018 6:21:22 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Always A Marine

that’s an interesting thought


44 posted on 09/11/2018 12:08:00 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Trump w/ Cabinet to the press:"You're free to stay or to go, as I believe in a free press." lol)
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To: MichaelCorleone

I wasn’t accusing Conway of doing anything intentionally, but her comments to Fox & Friends appear to be poor strategy. Instead of making the traitor more cautious in this case, giving the person in question more slack to make mistakes would seem to be wiser.


45 posted on 09/11/2018 12:54:19 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Always A Marine

#20. How the hell did Hill get hired for anything in a Republican administration? Being one of Soros’ whores should have been the kiss of death for her.

However, Van Jones, another Soros whore, has a nice job on CNN or MSNBC and even appears on Fox, a big mistake. The Red Rat is still a Red Rat despite his fine, expensive clothes and calm words.

Avenatti had Stormy.
Jones had STORM.


46 posted on 09/11/2018 1:21:35 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Always A Marine
Ms. Hill spent six years with Soros’s Open Society Foundations, and has been a vocal critic of President Trump.

Someone has some house cleaning to do and it should have started day one. This is why PDJT's administration and first term have been so easy to attack. Insiders left over from Obamao should have been rounded up and each given a pink slip the first day of his term.

47 posted on 09/11/2018 2:22:44 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: Nifster
Bob wrote it

I did not......

48 posted on 09/11/2018 3:52:56 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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To: trebb

The other Bob


49 posted on 09/11/2018 4:17:18 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: stonehouse01

If we follow the Fake News development path propounded by the Wire, the hoax is the result of a progression of similar but less important previous articles.

Reather than looking to the White House for words or phrases, the analysis should be directed to works put forward by the Old Gray Whore.


50 posted on 09/11/2018 4:28:25 AM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
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To: Kaslin

My take is the nyt created the article from information obtained from individuals working at some level in government.

The author is the nyt.


51 posted on 09/11/2018 4:35:46 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: Nifster

OK - there’s just so few of us that I didn’t want to be mistaken for the other one.....


52 posted on 09/11/2018 4:49:43 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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To: Kaslin

Did anything happen to Omarosa? Didn’t think so. Why does justice take so long?


53 posted on 09/11/2018 5:10:40 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: Kaslin

Probably her HUSBAND!!


54 posted on 09/11/2018 5:11:29 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Kaslin

Probably her HUSBAND!!


55 posted on 09/11/2018 5:11:32 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: familyop

KAC has been around the block more than a few times and is no stranger to the political realities inside that Beltway.

She, above all, should have been well aware what kind of message those words communicated to ‘anonymous’. Question is, was it a mistake or intentional?


56 posted on 09/11/2018 5:17:10 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Kaslin

suspect that the whole “anomymous” confession is a HOAX The Left, meaning perhaps the New Jack Times itself, just “made it up” to make President Trump look bad.


57 posted on 09/11/2018 9:33:02 AM PDT by 2harddrive (Go to www.CodeIsFreeSpeech.com for 10 FREE 3D-printer gun blueprints!)
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To: ssaftler

Could be. I’ve heard the writing sounds like the work of a crybaby snowflake. There you are.


58 posted on 09/11/2018 4:26:21 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: MichaelCorleone

That’s a good consideration and question.


59 posted on 09/11/2018 6:00:42 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: ssaftler

I think it was someone or some consortium of backroom twits at the NYT, also. No joke. They’ve put forth the notion that it was a “Senior Official” WITHIN the Trump WH that wrote it, in order to sow panic within the WH, as we watch them all report on the progress or no progress in being able to locate any strong suspect. But many underlings have ALREADY been exposed as conspiring to frame Trump, so that’s a real possibility. Even so I think the NYT is responsible-—but wouldn’t/shouldn’t that slimeball Bob Woodward know? After all, this bears no small resemblance to Watergate and Deep Throatm who was finally revealed after how many years???


60 posted on 09/11/2018 9:34:21 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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