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Solly Mack

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7. Coats could be the face of the group. In the letter, it clearly explains it's a group thing

Reply to FM123 (Reply #6)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 11:20 PM

Sep 2018

The author is speaking as "I" but refers to his "like-minded colleagues and I" doing the same. On multiple occasions, the letter talks of the group effort.

Coats could be the one with less to lose. Who didn't care if he was named.

I don't know.

I do wonder at the motive.

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Maybe we thought Pence was "Anonymous "because Coats wanted it that way? [View all] FM123 Sep 2018 OP

This presidency is now an Agatha Christie novel JenniferJuniper Sep 2018 #1

Right...So the Butler did it? EOM physioex Sep 2018 #2

More like one of those dark Scandinavian murder mysteries The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2018 #3

+1 perfect description lunasun Sep 2018 #10

Maybe more than one person worked on the letter. Solly Mack Sep 2018 #4

Wouldn't surprise me.... physioex Sep 2018 #5

You and I will have to agree to disagree on Pence and Ryan being capable. Solly Mack Sep 2018 #8

By capable... physioex Sep 2018 #9

I heard that too on Laurence O'Donnell FM123 Sep 2018 #6

Coats could be the face of the group. In the letter, it clearly explains it's a group thing Solly Mack Sep 2018 #7

The more I think about it, I am beginning to think it was a group thing too... FM123 Sep 2018 #11

It does feel like a really bad novel. Or made for TV movie. Solly Mack Sep 2018 #12