i thought "placeholder" was an interesting thing for Q to say so many times on PF. other anons posted caps of an article referring to Whitaker as a placeholder. this seems to make sense given that he is a Temp but i wasn't satisfied. still seemed like an odd word to use.
so i looked it up and found the definition to be rather interdasting. it's an element of a sentence (story) that is necessary for the proper development of the sentence (story) but itself holds no information. it can appear to be the subject but the
TRUE SUBJECT
is something else entirely.
maybe Q is sneakily letting us know that Whitaker is a distraction/not the true subject