TOPSHOT - (COMBO) This combination of FILE pictures created on September 6, 2018 of US senior administration officals that denied writting a New York Times opinion piece on September 5, 2018, shows 1st ROW (L-R) US Vice President Mike Pence, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis, CIA director Gina Haspel, and US Attorney General Jeff Sessions 2nd ROW (L-R) US Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, US Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Jr, US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley. 3rd ROW (L-R) US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney, US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry US Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie. 4th ROW (L-R) Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta, US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, US Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. 5th ROW (L-R) US Administrator of the Small Business Administration Linda McMahon, White House Counsel Don McGahn, US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, (L), HHS Secretary Alex Azar, Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway. - Donald Trump's top lieutenants scrambled on September 6, 2018 to deny authorship of an explosive op-ed article that has plunged his presidency into its worst crisis yet by proclaiming a secret insider resistance to his reckless, "amoral" leadership. The White House has been convulsed since Wednesday by a fevered hunt for the senior official who declared, in an unsigned article for The New York Times, that "unsung heroes" were quietly working within the administration to frustrate the president's "worst inclinations." (Photos by various sources / AFP)