I smell a set-up. Speech analysis routines are widely available on the interwebs. Anyone looking for a unique speech pattern would've found the wprd "lodestar" as being uniquely used by VP Pence then penned an Op-ed using it to make it LOOK like he wrote it. It's not hard to do even for a casual person.
This is clearly a set-up to drive division within the core of the White House.
Sorry for typo’s. Typing one handed due to broken arm and wrist.