Trump Calls on NYT to Identify Anonymous Op-Ed Writer on National-Security Grounds

If the person does exist, the president says, he or she is a threat to national security

President Donald Trump is calling for The New York Times to disclose the identity of the anonymous author of an op-ed that details what the paper is calling a senior administration official’s “resistance inside the Trump administration.”

In a Sept. 5 tweet, Trump cast doubt on whether the official even exists (“or is it just the Failing New York Times with another phony source?”), but said that if he or she did, “the Times must, for National Security purposes, turn him/her over to government at once!”