Given the half-dozen other scandals that have befallen the Trump administration since it was published in The New York Times, you would be forgiven if the anonymous op-ed heard round the world had simply slipped your mind. Allow us to supply a quick refresher: last month, an unidentified government official claimed in said opinion piece that he (or she!) was part of a covert “resistance” inside the White House. “Many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office,” this person wrote. Unsurprisingly, the piece did not go over super well at the White House, where the president was said to be “rip-shit” and “punch-drunk,” calling it an act of treason and demanding that the federal government ferret out and drag the writer before him for punishment. But one month later, Anonymous is still Anonymous.

According to the Associated Press, after White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, communications director Bill Shine, and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders “convened a series of closed-door meetings and ordered a cursory leak search, including enforcing a pre-existing ban on personal phones,” the unmasking initiative mostly petered out:

Though the president continued to vent about the leaks, aides never conducted an exhaustive search, according to two of the officials. And many administration officials recognized that there was a long list of officials who plausibly could have been the author. The investigation, which existed more in name than practice, stalled. A move to clean house never occurred. The author’s identity is still a mystery.

That probably has something to do with the fact that, as is custom for this administration, each giant scandal that would consume any other presidency is quickly replaced by the next. Who has time to focus on rooting out an anonymous resistance fighter within the ranks when there’s an alleged sexual predator and fall-down drunk to install on the Supreme Court, a tax-evasion investigation to get ahead of, and another foreign nation to blame for election meddling that was clearly perpetrated by Trump’s pals in Russia?

Trump’s tariffs are blowing up in his face

Instead of shrinking the trade deficit, the president’s decision to slap countries around the world with punitive measures has had the . . . exact opposite effect, per CNBC: