Like Chris Cardona and his supporters, Donald Trump says journalists shouldn’t be allowed to have anonymous sources

One of the stupidest, and I mean stupidest, arguments in the debate thrown up by my reports of the Economy Minister and his EU presidency policy aide in a Velbert brothel is that I shouldn’t have used an anonymous source. No, I should have used ‘proof’ and ‘evidence’.

My response: there’s no greater proof and evidence than an eye-witness. The journalist has to be certain that the eye-witness is not fooling around (he most certainly was not), and the readership/audience then has to trust the journalist.

Because what are those people saying who are asking for proof and evidence? They are saying that 1. my source lied to me, or 2. there is no source and I invented the story.

To anybody with brains, both 1. and 2. are total bollocks (if you will excuse the expression). It should be obvious from the way I wrote that the person who told me, the person who was there, is somebody I actually know, and not just some random person who sent me an email. As for 2., you have to laugh, especially when you look at the type and nature of those suggesting that I must be lying.

They include, for instance, a certain champion of morality called Chris Cardona and another champion of morality called Michela Spiteri, a newspaper columnist who is religiously truthful, so much so that it was only accidentally that she found herself having sex with my friend’s husband for rather a long time before his wife found out, and now gives him very moral and truthful instructions on how to fight his wife in court and make life more difficult for his young daughters than it already is.

It is obvious that Spiteri would side with Cardona. They are the same kind of person, in more ways than one: narcissists who script their own moral codes. I’m surprised, quite frankly, that The Sunday Times allows its columnists to grind their personal axes without declaring their interest in doing so.

So I am not at all surprised to see that Donald Trump, also a very straitlaced person who never lies, cheats or fornicates, agrees with them. “Reporters shouldn’t be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody’s name,” he said today. “Let there be no more sources. I’m against the people that make up stories and make up sources. They shouldn’t be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody’s name.”

There you go, chaps: when you reason like Donald Trump, you know for certain that you must be right.