The reality is that his base will simply dismiss anything with anonymous sources as "fake news". I suspect that many of them don't even realize that the source isn't anonymous to the author of the article, and has just declined to be named. If there is a named source, they will simply discredit the source, and say they have a vendetta against the President and are lying. It's a catch-22.
With respect to the impact on independents, what rock must you have been living under for the last four years that this is some shocking revelation? I cannot imagine that "Trump says awful thing, news at 11" is moving the needle overmuch at this point.
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