or, at a minimum, the part of the administration where the author works. the problem for the president, it could quite literally be anyone. a senior official tells axios a lot of us were wishing we d been the writer. i suspect, i hope he, trump, knows, maybe he does, that there are dozens and dozens of us. the rampant conjecture has forced the vice president and cabinet members to publicly deny that they penned the op-ed, an op-ed that the president has called treason which has prompted new paranoia in an already paranoid president. insubordination. it is. but it s insubordination born out of loyalty to the country, not to donald trump. this is not sustainable to have an executive branch where individuals are not following the orders of the chief executive. this is a classic case in washington of one man s whistleblower is another man s