U.S. Vice-President and Secretary of State on Thursday said they did not write an anonymous column in The New York Times that asserted that many senior officials are part of “a quiet resistance” within the administration.
Mr. Pompeo, who previously served as Mr. Trump’s CIA director, slammed the Times for publishing the piece. “It's not mine,” Mr. Pompeo told reporters during a trip to New Delhi. “If it’s accurate... they should not well have chosen to take a disgruntled, deceptive, bad actor’s word for anything and put it in their newspaper.”
A spokesman for U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence’s office also criticised The Times and said Mr. Pence does not write anonymous opinion columns.
“The Vice-President puts his name on his Op-Eds. The @nytimes should be ashamed and so should the person who wrote the false, illogical, and gutless op-ed. Our office is above such amateur acts,” Mr. Pence’s spokesman Jarrod Agen said on Twitter.
The Times said it kept the author's name secret because the official’s job would be jeopardised by its disclosure, calling it a rare step.