Former Trump campaign director Michael Caputo says he knows who wrote the anonymously authored op-ed published in the New York Times that was highly critical of President Trump.
“The author of this op-ed believes that she is a hero to the American people,” said Caputo. ” I’m fairly certain I know who it is. I’ve been going through this parlor game like everybody else has and I am also completely 100% certain that the person who wrote this is on the list of people who said they didn’t write it.”
Caputo said his attorney warned him against naming names, but he did make clear he believes it’s a woman.
“Based on language. Based on the fact that I believe these kinds of people leave a trail of crumbs when they are trying to deceive people around them,” said Caputo. “I don’t think this person is in the White House. This person really has to be high up. It’s got to be a deputy, secretary-level, or higher. I believe it’s someone who has taken an oath.”
Rumors have swirled among conservatives that former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, now Ambassador to the United Nations, is the culprit.
“The only person “high up” in the administration who fits the first four criteria is Haley,” said Hot Air, a leading conservative blog. “Trump’s other women agency heads — Kirstjen Nielsen, Betsy DeVos, Elaine Chao, Gina Haspel — have no political ambitions.”
Caputo says the author is “diabolical” in the way they left clues suggesting it may be someone else who wrote it.
“I started with this,” said Caputo. “Who is the person who I believe hates the president the most? Who is the person in the administration who has screamed about him in their own private office and gone forward and purged their entire office of Trump people?”
During the 2016 campaign, Haley endorsed Trump rival Marco Rubio for the GOP nomination.
Haley wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post that the author of the Times op-ed did a disservice “not just to the president but to the country.”
When she or any other staffer has a disagreement with the president, “there is a right way and a wrong way to address it,” Haley wrote.
