Steven Mnuchin /Treasury Secretary
James N. Mattis /Defense Secretary
Jeff Sessions/ Attorney General
Ryan Zinke /Interior Secretary
Sonny Perdue /Agriculture Secretary
Wilbur Ross/ Commerce Secretary
R. Alexander Acosta /Labor Secretary
Tom Price/Health and Human Services Secretary
Ben Carson/Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Elaine L. Chao/Transportation Secretary
Rick Perry/ Energy Secretary
Betsy DeVos/Education Secretary
David J. Shulkin/Secretary of Veterans Affairs
John F. Kelly/Homeland Security Secretary
Mike Pompeo/C.I.A. Director
Nikki R. Haley/U.N. Ambassador
Scott Pruitt/E.P.A. Administrator
Linda McMahon/Small Business Administration
Mick Mulvaney/Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Dan Coats/Director of National Intelligence
Robert Lighthizer/U.S. Trade Representative
Kevin Hassett/Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
Reince Priebus/White House Chief of Staff
Stephen K. Bannon/Chief Strategist
Jared Kushner/ Senior adviser to the president
H.R. McMaster/National Security Adviser
Thomas P. Bossert/ Homeland Security Adviser
Kellyanne Conway/Counselor
Carl Icahn/Special Adviser on Regulatory Reform
Donald F. McGahn II/White House Counsel
Peter Navarro/Director of Trade and Industrial Policy
Sean Spicer/Press Secretary and Special Assistant to the President
Sessions, Mattis, Shulkin, Chao, Coats, Haley, Tillerson...
So many to pick from.
Mattis and Coats would be my guesses.
The Cabinet is not that large but that’s a good list. It’s just the people with Secretary in their title. The other positions are considered “cabinet level” but are not officially in the Cabinet.
Weren’t there a number of Obama holdovers that stayed on into Trump’s first year? If so those would be the prime suspects, no?
I’ll wager that Dan Coats is one of them.
I still think he was the “anonymous” cabinet official who wrote the op-ed that said that there were “those who were working against President Trump and he was one of them.”
This person was trying to say have no fear...that there were those working within the administration who wanted President Trump to fail.
And I still think it was Dan Coats.