Longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone said he believes the op-ed authored by a senior administration official and published last week in the New York Times is a “fabrication.”
“This is the most popular parlour game in Washington and New York right now,” Stone said on CNN about guessing the identify of the author. “I have a theory that no one wrote it, meaning that it’s a fabrication.”
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Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone calls the search for the identity of the anonymous New York Times op-ed that criticizes President Trump a “popular parlor game,” adding “I have a theory that no one wrote it” https://t.co/kfEpX4tDIO pic.twitter.com/UHD2kA6bK9
— Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) September 11, 2018
The opinion piece, which spoke of a “resistance” within the Trump administration, came out last week amid the publication of excerpts in veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, “Fear: Trump in the White House.” Like the op-ed, the book depicts the White House in an unfavorable manner.
Stone isn’t the only one who has suggested that the op-ed was fabricated. Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld said he suspected that the Times wrote the piece, in an attempt to “trim the sale” of Woodward’s book and to “hurt the paper’s chief rival, the Washington Post.”
“Without further notice, I’m going to assume that the Times wrote it, until they prove otherwise,” Gutfeld said Monday on Fox News. “Because, the thing is, they should want to clear their name by proving to me that somebody else wrote it.”
Gutfeld then asked Fox News host Jeanine Pirro who she thought wrote the op-ed.
“I think the New York Times wrote it,” she said. “But what do I know. No one knows.”
[More: White House staffers believe anonymous New York Times op-ed author is one of a few people: Report]
