The Trump administration has trimmed the list of White House officials who could have possibly penned the blistering New York Times op-ed published this week, an insider has revealed.
A source close to the White House told CNN Friday that the hunt for the op-ed's anonymous author is now zeroing in on 'a few' individuals, with counselor Kellyanne Conway revealing that President Donald Trump believes the writer is from the national security sector of the government.
The insider said Trump remains 'obsessed' with nailing the 'sick person' responsible - while his chief of staff John Kelly tries to talk the president into letting it go, fearing that Trump's repeated calls to reveal the author have drawn more attention to the unfavorable editorial itself.
The op-ed, written by someone identified only as a 'senior administration official', describes a resistance movement within the White House that has been working to dilute Trump's reckless leadership style.
Trump's hunt for the identity of the senior White House official behind this week's blistering New York Times op-ed has zeroed in on a few individuals, an insider revealed Friday
Trump has cried for a full-fledged manhunt for the author behind the scathing Times op-ed which he referred to as 'treason'.
While on board Air Force One Friday, Trump said Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department should be leading the hunt, telling reporters: 'It's about national security.'
'I would say Jeff should be investigating who the author of that piece was, because I really believe it was national security,' he said.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told CNN Friday that Trump believes the op-ed author is from the national security sector of the government (stock image)
'Eventually the name of this sick person will come out.
'Maybe it's nobody. Maybe the Times did it. Look, the Times uses phony sources all the time.'
Trump seemed most agitated about the possibility that someone with a security clearance may be willing to leak state secrets in the future.
'Supposing I have a high-level national security meeting and he has got a clearance,' Trump mused about his anonymous Judas, 'and he goes into a high-level meeting concerning China or Russia or North Korea or something.'
'I don't want him in those meetings,' the president said. 'So we're going to see what happens. We're looking at it very strongly from a legal standpoint.'
The president was airborne on his way from Billings, Montana to Fargo, North Dakota.
President Trump said identifying the anonymous author who wrote the The New York Times op-ed was a matter of 'national security' on Friday
Speculation has abounded since Wednesday about who might be the op-ed culprit, and three dozen administration A-listers have issued firm denials.
'Almost all of the high level people have said that,' Trump told reporters.
'You know, when you say that – and if it were you, you'd be shunned for the rest of your life.'
And he continued to bash the Times, one of the newspapers he most loves to hate, for publishing what the White House has called a 'cowardly' anonymous slap.
'For somebody to do that is very low, and I think journalistically, and from many different standpoints, and maybe even from the standpoint of national security,' Trump carped.
'We'll find out about that. For The New York Times to allow that to happen is disgraceful.'
Trump's senior aides have all scrambled to disown the op-ed that appeared in the Times on Wednesday that slammed the President's leadership style as impetuous, petty and ineffective
The furious hunt for the senior leaker who trashed President Trump in an anonymous op-ed heated up Friday, after reports Trump has a list of 12 suspects and still more denials from top officials who said they didn't do it.
The effort came as Trump leveled a new attack on Bob Woodward's bombshell book, which reveals chaos in the White House and senior aides scurrying to thwart the president's worst impulses. Trump said the book isn't accurate because 'I don't talk the way I am quoted.'
Kentucky Sen Rand Paul has suggested lie detector tests for senior aides in just one of the aggressive options to try to identify the author from within his own administration who charged Trump with holding 'off the rails' meetings, filled with 'repetitive rants' that produce 'half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions.'
Another tactic being floated is to force aides to sign sworn affidavits stating that they weren't behind the leaks.
FBI Director Chris Wray is the latest top official to deny being behind the devastating op-ed, after Vice President Mike Pence and a raft of cabinet secretaries and senior aides said they didn't do it.
Top aides have already been forced to sign non-disclosure agreements, so it is unclear what additional weight an affidavit might carry.
Practically Trump's entire cabinet including these famous faces – and the first lady – have all declared they're not responsible for the mysterious op-ed
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Main photo article The Trump administration has trimmed the list of White House officials who could have possibly penned the blistering New York Times op-ed published this week, an insider has revealed.
A source close to the White House told CNN Friday that the hunt for the op-ed’s anonymous author is now ...
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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