A former federal government employee ripped the top off of Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS). From 2017 to 2019, Miles Taylor worked there, part of the time he served as chief of staff to Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. Then, he endorsed the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket for November 3, 2020.
The president claimed he had no idea who the man was, but the man remembered Trump. In fact, he had proof that the man in the Oval Office had met him in the form of a cheerful thumbs-up pose.
Trump said:
‘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!’
Taylor decided to “take the bait.” He appears far braver than most of the Senate Republicans:
‘Alas, I’ll take the bait. Haven’t forgotten you though! I guess the only way to prove it is to tell some stories. Maybe until the election. What do you think?’
The White House told The Hill:
‘[T]he president takes thousands of photos with individuals he does not know so [Trump’s] tweet should not be that surprising.]’
Unfortunately for Trump, Taylor endorsed the presumptive Democratic candidate Joe Biden in an ad produced for Republican Voters Against Trump
Then, Taylor wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post where he claimed that the president tried to:
‘[E]xploit the Department of Homeland Security for his own political purposes and to fuel his own agenda. It is more than a little ironic that Trump is campaigning for a second term as a law-and-order president. His first term has been dangerously chaotic. Four more years of this are unthinkable.’
Taylor added:
‘After serving for more than two years in the Department of Homeland Security’s leadership during the Trump administration, I can attest that the country is less secure as a direct result of the president’s actions… [W]hen it came to national security, I witnessed the damning results firsthand.’
‘[He demanded we] sharpen the spikes atop the border wall so they’d be more damaging to human flesh (“How much would that cost us?”). Meanwhile, Trump showed vanishingly little interest in subjects of vital national security interest, including cybersecurity, domestic terrorism and malicious foreign interference in U.S. affairs.’
Notice that Trump did not question Taylors claims in his tweets. For instance, Taylor said the president had:
‘[A] deliberate policy of ripping children away from their parents to show those parents that they shouldn’t come to the border in the first place.’
Tuesday when he appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America, Taylor said:
‘In Donald Trump’s Washington, there’s no doubt that doing this is going to be tough for me reputationally, professionally, and it is certainly going to take a hit at my pocket book (sic) This has nothing to do about money. This has to do with being honest about the president and putting country before party.’
Twitter world caught fire after this tweet went viral. Take a look at some of our favorites below and see what you think:
I’ll pull up a chair pic.twitter.com/QGd9JPe2yt
— Twee Torr (@twitorr115) August 18, 2020
