The anonymous op-ed writer is still very anonymous.
But there might be a lot more linguistic clues to figure out their identity coming soon, along with a whole new look inside the Trump White House. That's because the anonymous senior official who wrote a New York Times op-ed about the silent "resistance" working under President Trump is writing a whole book called A Warning, their publisher said Tuesday.
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Now, that person has written a whole book promising to be an expansion of the "behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency" they wrote for the Times. The author's literary agent wouldn't comment on whether the person still worked for the White House, but did say they will "donate a substantial amount of any royalties to the White House Correspondents Association and other organizations that fight for a free press that seeks the truth," per the Times.
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