Bill Maher Thinks Anonymous OP-ED Writer Is — Gen John Kelly

Maher began by asking his panel who they thought who was behind the op-ed. Former congressman Charlie Dent (R-PA) suspected DNI Dan Coates, New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg believed it was a staffer of a prominent senior official, while former Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod invoked Murder on the Orient Express and said everyone in the White House wrote a sentence of the piece.

Then the Real Time host shared his thoughts.

“I think it’s Gen. [John] Kelly. I do,” Maher declared. “First of all, I think the McCain funeral was the last straw for a lot of people and he’s the kind of guy who- look, he’s not been happy for a very long time… the list of people who’ve called the president an ‘idiot.’ It’d be hard to find anyone who didn’t. And he has been in there.”

Maher then invoked Kelly’s reported quote in Bob Woodward‘s new book Fear that we’re “in Crazytown.”