The mystery writer behind an anonymous "resistance" column in The New York Times was a "snake" — a female one — former Donald Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo claimed Thursday morning.
“I know it’s a woman,” he told Buffalo radio station WBEN 930AM, while refusing to say her name, Townhall reported.
"My attorney is keeping me from saying her name, but yes, I believe it’s a woman. I believe I know who it is," he added.
The mystery writer also tried to pin the blame on colleagues through leaving hints in the piece to lead analysts to different Trump administration officials, said Caputo.
Already, several key officials, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, and Vice President Mike Pence all denied speculation that they'd penned the article.
Caputo claimed that the writer published the piece to affect the midterm elections in hopes of bringing in a Congress that would impeach the president, but he doesn't believe the woman he has in mind wrote it herself.
"It’s very cleverly written,” Caputo said. It’s “clearly a ghostwriter” because “she can’t write op-eds this well.”
Giving a few more hints, Caputo said that it's dangerous to fire the person behind the op-ed because of "who she's related to," and he called her an "arrogant" person who considers herself to be “Captain America.”
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