Guessing Anonymous' Identity

Joe Herring, writing at American Thinker, does an analysis of the anonymous White House "senior staffer" tell-all that appeared in The New York Times. His aim, suss out who that person might be.

The reasoning isn't bad, if you assume (as I do not) the anonymous author didn't intentionally obfuscate. Herring's conclusion:

I am of the opinion that this is likely an Obama holdover (of which there are still more than a hundred in the employ of the White House alone) writing as if he were in fact a disaffected member of the Trump inner circle when he is in truth a bitter refusenik still stinging from the rejection of November last.

I think I know why the NYT kept it anonymous. "Disgruntled Obama holdover" doesn't carry the same cachet as "anonymous senior member of the administration."

For sure all such holdovers will come under extreme scrutiny since 'anonymous' broke into print. It's not clear why Trump hasn't dumped them all; even corporate CEOs normally clean house when brought in from the outside.

If all this analysis does is prompt a denial from the NYT, that denial will provide another data point. Hat tip to Lucianne.com for the link.