Vice-President Mike Pence says he’s “100 per cent confident” that no one on his staff was involved with the anonymous New York Times column criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump’s leadership. Pence added his staff to the list of more than two dozen high-ranking administration officials who have denied writing the column. I’m 100 per cent confident that no one on the vice-president’s staff was involved in this anonymous editorial. Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a Trump ally, has said the president would be justified in using lie detectors to ferret out the anonymous writer. Both also said they had no idea who wrote the piece; Trump has said he can name up to five people who could have written it.

Source: thestar September 09, 2018 17:03 UTC