October 18, 2019
By Scott Horsley
...But while the book (click here) is not supposed to be fiction, Vara is a made-up character.
"Ron Vara is an anagram of Navarro," said Tom Bartlett, a journalist who exposed the ruse in the Chronicle of Higher Education....
...and got this creepy feeling. Didn't Trump have an alter ego when he would speak to journalists? A name, "John Barron." Something like that.
I just find all this mess contains a strange parallel. I don't alter egos in people making decisions.