For what it is worth, U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman says he did not write the anonymous op-ed in the New York Times ripping President Trump:

“Come to find, when you’re serving as the U.S. envoy in Moscow, you’re an easy target on all sides. Anything sent out by me would have carried my name. An early political lesson I learned: Never send an anonymous op-ed,” Huntsman said.

In today’s Morning Jolt, I wrote that Huntsman most closely matched the traits we could discern about the writer. Presuming the ambassador is telling the truth, one has to wonder if the writer wanted suspicion to fall on Huntsman. The Times op-ed closes with these sentences:

There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first. But the real difference will be made by everyday citizens rising above politics, reaching across the aisle and resolving to shed the labels in favor of a single one: Americans.

Huntsman was a leading member of a group called “No Labels” and co-wrote a book with that title in 2014.