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 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 opinion piece. I’m 100 per cent confident that no one on the vice-president’s staff was involved in this anonymous editorial. Trump has dismissed Woodward’s book as a “work of fiction” and the Times op-ed author as “gutless.”Woodward has said he stands by his reporting. “But he makes the decisions, and that’s why we’ve made the progress we’ve made.”Trump has said the Justice Department should investigate and unmask the anonymous New York Times author.

Source: National Post September 09, 2018 16:52 UTC