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Sessions? Kelly? Mattis? Pence? Conway? Debate rages on Twitter over identity of #DeepStateThroat

by Charlie Smith on September 5th, 2018 at 10:23 PM
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      Tonight's unsigned opinion piece in the New York Times has given rise to a new hashtag: #DeepStateThroat.

      It's a play on the term "Deep Throat", which was the pseudonym for Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's secret source during the Watergate takedown of former president Richard Nixon.

      This time, #DeepStateThroat refers to the author of "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration".

      "From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions," the unnamed senior Trump administration official writes. "Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims

      "Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back."

      Trump has gone batty over the article, as you can see in his two tweets below.

      The opinion piece comes a day after the Washington Post printed stunning excerpts of Woodward's new book about the Trump White House.

      In it senior officials are quoted by name trashing the president, though they've since denied using those words.

      Woodward, however, is standing behind his yet-to-be-released book, which is called Fear.

      Naturally, all of this has created intense interest around the world as to the identity of #DeepStateThroat.

      Below are just a few of the theories being floated on social media.

      And then, there's this...

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