Former Trump administration official Miles Taylor — who endorsed 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Monday — warned President Donald Trump on ABC News, Tuesday that more former officials like him would be coming out against him in the months leading up to the election.
Taylor, who previously worked as former United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen’s chief of staff, opened his ABC News interview by denying claims he came out against the president for money.
“As far as cashing in goes, in Donald Trump’s Washington there’s no doubt that doing this is going to be tough for me reputationally, professionally, and it’s certainly going to take a hit at my pocketbook. This has nothing whatsoever to do about money,” Taylor insisted. “This has to do with being honest about the president and putting country before party.”
“I left the administration because I got to a point where saying no was no longer enough. We were constantly in a position with the president where, it’s not that he would just tell us to do things that we would say are inappropriate, unethical, or illegal, it’s that he would continue to consistently tell us to do those things,” he claimed, adding, “That was an enormous frustration, and when I realized we weren’t going to be able to pull him back from some of these impulses, it meant
On the Trump administration’s separation of family members at the border, Taylor said, “Every single month I served in that administration, after we ended family separation, the president would come to us and say not only he wanted to restart it, he wanted to double down and implement a deliberate policy of ripping any kid apart from their parents that showed up at the border. Any kid at the border.”
“That was stunning to me, and frankly it was one of the most disheartening and disgusting things I’ve ever experienced in public service, and that significantly contributed to me wanting to leave this administration,” he declared.
Taylor concluded the interview by warning that “the president hasn’t heard the last of us,” claiming, “In fact, me speaking out yesterday, you could think of it as an opening salvo, and I’m not going to mention any other names yet, but the president can expect that in the coming weeks and months leading up to the election, he is going to hear from more people that served in his administration.”
“He is going to hear more of them give the same testimonies that I gave, which is that he’s ill-equipped to hold the office that he has and that a second term would be more dangerous than a first term,” Taylor said.
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“Miles worked previously on the House Appropriations Committee, participating in historic efforts to cut federal spending and helping to oversee billions of dollars in federal security-related programs,” the National Endowment for Democracy revealed. “Before that, he served as the youngest presidential appointee in the George W. Bush Administration and has focused on national security and foreign policy at the White House, Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security, and several think tanks.”
Taylor blasted Trump in an article for the Washington Post on Monday, titled, “At Homeland Security, I saw firsthand how dangerous Trump is for America.”
The president shot back at Taylor on Twitter, Tuesday writing, “Many thousands of people work for our government. With that said, a former DISGRUNTLED EMPLOYEE named Miles Taylor, who I do not know (never heard of him), said he left & is on the open arms Fake News circuit. Said to be a real ‘stiff’. They will take anyone against us!”
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