Nothing new about this. On the contrary, it's routine. But notice how in Beltway journalism you can be granted anonymity for the purpose of bragging about the nifty move you just made.
I’m really confused by this. I don’t buy the premise at all—no chance the Trump team wants a debate. Are they just *representing* that they want one for a while, until they inevitably back out?
This snippet seems like another double-manipulation of the press. OTOH, anonymous source claims to have manipulated the other campaign; OTOH, source actually has manipulated the press into making source’s team look smarter than they are.