(Reuters) - Dan Coats, Mike Pence and Kirstjen Nielsen were among the favorites on Thursday among political gamblers taking an online stab at predicting which senior Trump administration official authored a scathing anonymous column in the New York Times.
Coats, the director of national intelligence, was seen as having an 18 percent chance of being the writer who said senior officials are part of a "quiet resistance" in the administration, according to PredictIt.org, an online market for betting on political events.