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Robin Abcarian: Why give anonymity to a self-serving Trump official who isn't telling us anything new?

What did we learn from this week's bombshell essay in the New York Times about President Trump, written by a person identified only as a "senior official in the Trump administration"?

That the president is amoral? Already knew that.

That there are grownups in the White House who try to rein in the toddler-like impulses of the man with the nuclear codes? Knew that, too.

That the New York Times editorial page is willing to blatantly violate one of journalism's most sacred tenets - transparency - to hammer a president against whom it has raged for

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