I think Trump wrote the damn NYT op-ed himself
Here's the deal:
Trump believes he has A LOT more support from the American people than he really has. He also despises the three Big East Coast Liberal Papers, the Washington Post, New York Times and Boston Globe.
His idea was simple: he'd make up an op-ed full of outrageous lies and convince the New York Times to publish it anonymously. People would read it, decide the NYT had finally crossed the line, and cancel their subscriptions en masse. The drop in circulation would also cause a drop in ad revenues, which would kill off the NYT once and for all.
This was the plan.
First, Trump wrote this outrageous article.
Next, he had it rewritten by some of his staffers so it didn't sound like Trump wrote it.
And finally, he submitted the piece under a pseudonym. He's famous for this, as John Barron will attest.
It didn't go so well, in no small part because the American people don't like Donald Trump. People actually believed what was written in the article - in no small part because that shit's really happening. And now that it's backfired so spectacularly, he's running through his staff directory trying to figure out someone to lay the blame on.
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I has been established that it was written by David Dennison. 
I agree that he is sneaky enough to have had a hand in its creation.
