The past four years have been approximately twenty years long. I barely remember Trump administration scandals from 2017 and 2018, and I’m constantly having to go through our archives to see if we even discussed this or that MAGA catastrophe. I don’t even think I wrote about this at the time, or maybe I did and I just can’t find it now. But in 2018, an “Anonymous” Trump administration official wrote a stupid op-ed about how Donald Trump is the worst and he’s probably going to kill us all, but the American people shouldn’t worry because there are men of conscience working in the administration and they’ll stop him from doing anything too crazy. It was a guessing game for about five minutes, “who is Anonymous?” And then we just moved on because the op-ed was a dumpster fire, just like everything else. Now, just days away from the election, Anonymous wants attention. His name is Miles Taylor and he worked for Homeland Security under Trump.
Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, was the anonymous author of The New York Times Op-Ed article in 2018 whose description of President Trump as “impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective” roiled Washington and set off a hunt for his identity, Mr. Taylor confirmed Wednesday.
Mr. Taylor was also the anonymous author of “A Warning,” a book he wrote the following year that described the president as an “undisciplined” and “amoral” leader whose abuse of power threatened the foundations of American democracy. He acknowledged that he was the author of both the book and the opinion article in an interview and in a three-page statement he posted online.
Mr. Taylor resigned from the Department of Homeland Security in June 2019, and went public with his criticism of Mr. Trump this past summer. He released a video just before the start of the Republican National Convention declaring that the president was unfit for office, and he endorsed Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee.
But Mr. Taylor, 33, who had repeatedly denied being Anonymous, did not reveal himself to be the author of the opinion article and book at the time.
On Wednesday, Mr. Trump claimed not to know who Mr. Taylor is, despite the fact that there are numerous pictures of the president with Mr. Taylor in meetings.
I feel the same way about Miles Taylor that I felt about all of those generals and military men who went to work for Trump in a civil capacity – they all lost their souls and no amount of after-the-fact “well, really I was protecting the American people” will change my mind. Miles Taylor, James Mattis, John Kelly, McMaster… they all KNEW what Trump was before they went to work for him. Then, years into the disaster, when they’re all compromised morally and legally, suddenly they all find Jesus. F–k all of them.
The amount of people Trump has compromised and then denied ever knowing is really staggering.
….associated with this FRAUD on the American people!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 28, 2020
Photos courtesy of Getty, CNN.
This guy started his career working for Dick Cheney. To achieve his position at age 33, theee was a lot of brown-nosing and backstabbing. And if Tom Cotton or Josh Hawley blow into office sometime in the future (heaven forbid) he‘ll be right there next to them whatever ghoulish nightmare the get up to. His “resistance” was only to protect future employment.
And not for nothing he lied when Anderson Cooper asked him if he was Anonymous.
I was literally just going to ask how he has such a high position in the government at THIRTY THREE. Smh – makes sense.
He looks like the Dollar Store version of Rob Lowe’s character in The West Wing.
I don’t have any time for this business either. And I won’t have any time for any of the people who start talking about ‘concerns’ or ‘oh, I always fought the good fight’ or whatever other crap is coming in the days ahead. They can go **** themselves.
33, chief of staff for homeland, working for Cheney… The dude is CIA
And considering Cheney was the wet work guy for the CIA director (bush) this miles guy is probably a pretty scary dude.
I don’t think the fact that Bush and Cheney ran the CIA is given near enough weight, my god, just imagine the things they have done.
@Khat totally agree with you re: Bush, Cheney, CIA
Well look at what Bush I and Cheney (as the grey eminence for Bush II) DID do in the Oval Office!! They started multiple wars abroad and forced deregulation at home, they eviscerated oversight by federal agencies of the financial sector and all kinds of other sectors, and let companies aggregate more power than government, and expanded the purview of the executive branch so that no other branch could “balance” it. They allowed the lunatic fringe of the GOP to take center stage visually and verbally (while they worked behind the scenes). They did bring all the CIA’s tactics into the mainstream, and at home not just in foreign countries.
Unlike Kelly, Mattis, and McMaster, Taylor is publicly and forcefully speaking out. Some 33 year old chump is more of a patriot than the people we trusted to protect our democracy.
Ooooh, such a patriot to come out barely a week before the election. GTFO!! No one has time for your pious nonsense–you didn’t stop sh** from happening for almost four years. PFFFT!
this is the guy who recently defended the administration from the report of how many children they cannot reunite w/family by saying the families didn’t want their kids back so if he counted as “a man of conscience” in the administration, the bar is far underground