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Itās a sure bet that President Trump wonāt be happy with the anonymously titled White House tell-all āA Warning,ā set to hit shelves Nov. 19. But the online oddsmakers at U.S. Bookies think the real action is in trying to figure out who wrote the book.
The odds-on favorite is Vice President Pence, who denied he was āanonymous" when the same author painted a picture of chaos and incompetence in a September 2018 New York Times essay called āI Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration." The author of that article sought to assure the citizenry that she or he was ā likely unelected and unaccountable ā a person close to the president subverting his efforts when they felt the commander-in-chief was going astray.
ā(Pence) may have denied it when the anonymous insider first broke, but the use of the word ālodestarā is one favored by Pence during his tenure as Trumpās deputy," according to U.S. Bookies spokesman Alex Donohue, referencing a term used in the Times essay. āIf heās fearing being stood down in 2020, or has presidential ambitions of his own, it makes sense with bettors for the veep to be the most likely candidate to be the explosive whistleblower.ā
While Pence is the 2-3 favorite, U.S. Bookies thinks education secretary Betsy Devos is a solid candidate and makes her a 2-1 bet. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis are all 4-1 bets, while Jeff Sessions, who Trump harangued constantly for nearly 21 months over his refusal to involve himself in Robert Muellerās investigation into interference in the 2016 presidential election, is a 5-1 pick to have ratted out his former boss. Sessions, then the nationās attorney general, was urged by the president to launch an investigation into the Timesā essay before leaving in November.
Itās a sure bet that President Trump wonāt be happy with the anonymously titled White House tell-all āA Warning,ā set to hit shelves Nov. 19. But the online oddsmakers at U.S. Bookies think the real action is in trying to figure out who wrote the book.
The odds-on favorite is Vice President Pence, who denied he was āanonymous" when the same author painted a picture of chaos and incompetence in a September 2018 New York Times essay called āI Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration." The author of that article sought to assure the citizenry that she or he was ā likely unelected and unaccountable ā a person close to the president subverting his efforts when they felt the commander-in-chief was going astray.
ā(Pence) may have denied it when the anonymous insider first broke, but the use of the word ālodestarā is one favored by Pence during his tenure as Trumpās deputy," according to U.S. Bookies spokesman Alex Donohue, referencing a term used in the Times essay. āIf heās fearing being stood down in 2020, or has presidential ambitions of his own, it makes sense with bettors for the veep to be the most likely candidate to be the explosive whistleblower.ā
While Pence is the 2-3 favorite, U.S. Bookies thinks education secretary Betsy Devos is a solid candidate and makes her a 2-1 bet. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis are all 4-1 bets, while Jeff Sessions, who Trump harangued constantly for nearly 21 months over his refusal to involve himself in Robert Muellerās investigation into interference in the 2016 presidential election, is a 5-1 pick to have ratted out his former boss. Sessions, then the nationās attorney general, was urged by the president to launch an investigation into the Timesā essay before leaving in November.
