Thanks, Doc. It seems much of this depends upon what an "administration official" is.
That's especially important since the NYT is known to exaggerate to the point of lying.
BTW, americanthinker.com had an interesting article (yesterday?) arguing that the op-ed anon was not a high-ranking official and may not even exist in the Trump admin (which is D'Souza's theory). Full disclosure: Americanthinker is actually my favorite website.
Today I saw something on another site somewhere claiming that the anon is actually a student at USC. There may be a youtube vid for that one.
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As I insinuated in my previous post, I think the whole thing is a concerted, conspiratorial frame job for attempting to invoke the 25th Amendment.