Thread by @MightyCassandra

On Sept 5 I posted my theory regarding the Op-Ed. I ran the Essay through Turnitin.com, the Uber powerful online plagiarism-thwarting tool used by schools, universities & researchers. The OpE-Ed popped 100% Match to a USC student essay.

https://twitter.com/MightyCassandra/status/1037868805136031744

I pondered all the questions previously- maybe this was just a student writing ABOUT the Op-ed. No. I’ll show you why. 1. The student essay included the entire Op-Ed. Not an excerpt, not a quote. The whole piece NYT essay with one sentence revised.

Now why would a student turn a paper that is plaigiarized into a plaigiarism checker? That bothered me. At first I thought it was a student. I even found that Nancy Pelosi’s grandson attends USC, majoring economics. But his writing style scores 7th grade Lexile. It’s not him.

I was disappointed, too. That would have been a nice twist. But the truth is rarely that cut and dried. No, what I found is actually more interesting than that. The Op-Ed piece is framed by @NYT as an “essay.” That’s important. It’s not a letter. But an essay.

So I dug through the words. It’s beautifully written, I thought. In fact, it’s quite expertly done if you pay close attention, but it lacks the specificity of an official. It’s vague in its politics & sounds as if it was copied and pasted from @CNN rants.

Take this for example, “I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.” This reads precisely like an answer Toni Lahren might hear on a USC campus.

I did find a USC professor & Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Viet Thanh Nguyen, working as an opinion writer for @nytopinion. I thought THAT was interesting. Because a USC professor would insist a student paper be uploaded to Turnitin.com & archived to the repository.

The Op-Ed really should win some kind of prize...it’s simultaneously specific & yet startlingly vague. “The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making”

No examples, no details. And this “Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings”

Again, not one explicit detail. The author is either a college student whose USC prof with @nytopinion ties tried to pull one over on America... or it’s a Pulitzer Prize Winning Scam by an author so entrenched in Resistance he’d cross the line of sedition & professional ethics.

These opinions are entirely my own. The truth will eventually come out... as it always does. Given the level of animus & discarding of professional ethics, my bet is with USC rather than. Trump staffer. Anyone who’s worked with Trump loves him. That’s a fact. #MAGA #StableGenius

Mentally insert 2. Here. It’s late. I’m tired.

I was asked why I put that screenshot of Trump Hotel DC. You’ll notice that it sits just down Pennsylvania Ave, in line of sight of the WH, across the street from the FBI building & adjacent to the DOJ. A man who can do that & step into the WH can find out who wrote an essay.