Maybe we thought Pence was "Anonymous "because Coats wanted it that way?

[FM123]

Many of us thought the author of the NYT piece was Mike Pence because of the word "lodestar" which Pence has publicly used. But my daughter pointed out that perhaps the author just wanted us to think that it was him. But why, I thought? And who would want to make Pence look like Trumpy's betrayer?

And then I remembered a Politico article from a few years ago when Mike Pence actually compared Dan Coats to a Nazi - that might explain the subtle pointing at Pence.....


https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/mike-pence-nazi-essay-225906

[JenniferJuniper]

1. This presidency is now an Agatha Christie novel

[physioex]

2. Right...So the Butler did it? EOM

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. More like one of those dark Scandinavian murder mysteries

where everybody is depressed and morally compromised.

[lunasun]

10. +1 perfect description

[Solly Mack]

4. Maybe more than one person worked on the letter.

If Trump is removed, Pence is president.

Unless someone has something on Pence.

Mueller? Mueller? Mueller?

[physioex]

5. Wouldn't surprise me....

And honestly, I don't see impeachment as a great option. Pence and Ryan are actually capable......

[Solly Mack]

8. You and I will have to agree to disagree on Pence and Ryan being capable.

[physioex]

9. By capable...

I mean having the ability to understand material past the fifth grade.

[FM123]

6. I heard that too on Laurence O'Donnell

I didn't catch the whole show but some folks on the panel seemed to think so, O'Donnell seems to think it has to be Dan Coats or Mike Pompeo.

[Solly Mack]

7. Coats could be the face of the group. In the letter, it clearly explains it's a group thing

The author is speaking as "I" but refers to his "like-minded colleagues and I" doing the same. On multiple occasions, the letter talks of the group effort.

Coats could be the one with less to lose. Who didn't care if he was named.

I don't know.

I do wonder at the motive.

[FM123]

11. The more I think about it, I am beginning to think it was a group thing too...

Perhaps the "Lodestar" wording was not to throw shade on Mike Pence, but to suggest that he too is on board with this resistance, I don't know - as one poster said, it has the feel of an Agatha Christie novel.

[Solly Mack]

12. It does feel like a really bad novel. Or made for TV movie.