WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s administration announced it was trying to get rid of limits on how long it can detain immigrant children. The Justice Department charged an alleged North Korean operative for major cyberattacks. Senate Democrats tried to ambush Trump’s Supreme Court nominee at a bitter confirmation hearing. Negotiations continued on the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement. And the question of the day in Washington was this: whodunit?An article published Wednesday in the New York Times, in which an anonymous “senior official” in the Trump administration described Trump as a danger to the country and said administration officials were secretly working to thwart his reckless impulses, set off wild speculation inside and outside the administration about who might have been the author.Trump’s fury about the article prompted a surreal round of Thursday denials from prominent members of the administration. By mid-afternoon, the vice-president, secretary of state, defense secretary, homeland security secretary, housing secretary, treasury secretary, energy secretary, commerce secretary, trade representative, attorney general and intelligence director, among others, had all issued it-wasn’t-me claims. Read more:Trump unleashes ‘volcanic’ anger over U.S. official’s anonymous op-edOpinion | I am part of the resistance inside Donald Trump’s administrationKey take-aways from Bob Woodward’s upcoming book on Trump White HouseThe White House accused the media of having a “wild obsession” with the author’s identity, but the president himself appeared to be fixated on it. In a Thursday statement that sounded much like Trump, press secretary Sarah Sanders denounced the author as a “gutless loser” and asked outraged citizens to call up the Times, whose phone number she provided. On Wednesday, Trump wrote on Twitter: “TREASON?” (Legal exp ...
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