> officials still struggled to understand the events that nearly produced a seismic upheaval in their leadership ranks — until it didn’t — and they braced for a potential repeat of that chaos later in the week.
What events? Like it says, nothing happened. So there wasn’t any chaos except in the publication of a whole lot of fake news. This is just fake news about fake news, on top of fake news about fake news.
“This is just fake news about fake news”
Bingo.
Bottom line: The Washington Post doesn’t have a clue if Rod will stay or go.