Posted on 04/19/2020 7:52:44 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A former deputy national security adviser to President Trump denied Sunday that she was the author of a book and New York Times op-ed written by an anonymous senior official claiming to be part of the "resistance" within the administration.
An attorney for Victoria Coates told Axios that Coates had no connection to the op-ed, published in 2018, or its follow-up book, "A Warning," published in 2019.
Her denial comes as Real Clear Investigations published a piece on Wednesday citing claims from Trump administration officials involved in the probe to out the anonymous author of the book and op-ed, which claimed that Coates had been identified as the likely author and reassigned to the Department of Energy as a result.
"After an exhaustive investigation, the White House believes it’s cracked the case, identifying Trump's turncoat as his former deputy national security adviser, Victoria Coates, according to people familiar with the internal probe," reads the Real Clear Investigations article, which continued: "Rather than fire Coates, the White House has quietly transferred her to the Department of Energy, where she awaits special assignment in Saudi Arabia -- far from the president."
A lawyer for Coates fired back in a statement to Axios, writing that Real Clear Investigations “peddled false statements citing only anonymous sources, despite on-the-record denials from Javelin LLC, the White House, and three well-respected members of the Trump Administration—and now Dr. Coates as well.”
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Look up her bio on wikipedia. She’s a long term Republican. She worked for Rick Scott when was the Texas Governor, and helped Rumsfeld write his biography. She seems a unlike candidate to write such a book.
I would tend to agree with you.
Hook her up to a car battery.... Bet she’ll tell the truth then.
She denies(?).
Well, then. That means it’s absolutely positively certain that she is i-n-n-o-c-e-n-t. End of the matter. Who could possibly not believe her?
By the same token we could save a lot of time and expense by putting accused murderers on the stand, and ask, “did you do it”? When they say, “absolutely not”. That would mean they are innocent.
Forgot the /sarc tag.
She’s a “never Trumper” that worked for the Ted Cruz for president campaign and through a fit when he endorsed Trump for president. She shouldn’t be anywhere near the White House on that basis alone.
So she worked for Ted Cruz’s campaign. Cruz was a sore loser after he lost the nomination, now he supports the President’s policies. He isn’t a never trumper, and Coates was not called a never trumper until after she was accused of writing the book.
She had a set too with Cruz over his support of Trump. She’s been a never Trumper since.
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