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Trump attacks Miles Taylor, the first Trump pick to endorse Biden [1]

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Date: 2025-04-10

Trump has an extreme hatred and megalomaniac bent to go after leakers of government information, especially when it shows Trump to be an idiot. That's why Trump just did a memorandum, no different than executive order, on one person. He hates him so much that he doesn't put him in the title.

He served under Trump in the Department of Homeland Security between 2017 and 2019 and was chief of staff at DHS at one point. He wrote an op-ed in 2018 under the name "Anonymous" that described resistance from within Trump's administration. After he left, he wrote a book called "A Warning," which was all about Trump and how dangerous he was. Apparently, not enough people read it.

The memorandum is called Addressing Risks Associated With an Egregious Leaker and Disseminator of Falsehoods.

"Miles Taylor was entrusted with the responsibility of Federal service, but instead prioritized his own ambition, personal notoriety, monetary gain over fidelity to his constitutional oath."

This is so amazingly crazy. If you changed the name "Miles Taylor" in the above and substituted "Donald Trump," you have the real criminal.

Donald Trump has no comprehension of how to follow his constitutional oath. No understanding of it either. So, it's rich that he criticizes others for what he does every day.

You can read the complete op-ed by Miles here.

Some exerpts of the op-ed:

"To be clear, ours is not the popular resistance of the 'left.' We want the administration to succeed. I think that many policies have already made America safer and more prosperous."

"But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic."

The man had an honest concern about how Trump was running his administration and what he was doing to the country.

"That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our Democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump's more misguided impulses until he is out of office."

Well, right there you've got a reason for Trump to hate the man. He called him Mr. Trump instead of President Trump. That drives him crazy.

"Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for the ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright."

This was on September 5th, 2018. Nobody listened to him. He had Trump completely pegged correctly. Trump has no concept or understanding of free markets. Look what he just did with tariffs on and off, and on and off, and on and off. Trump and his brain are rarely connected.

"In addition to his mass marketing of the notion that the press is the 'enemy of the people,' President Trump's impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic."

Miles goes on to describe working with Trump and how difficult it was. Nearly impossible to keep him on a single track. That there were two sides to Trump with the public and the private, and they rarely matched.

He describes Trump's affinity for dictators and how he wanted to be one. He says that early on, there was discussion by cabinet officials about using the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from the presidency. That'll never happen with this cabinet.

He finishes with praise of Senator John McCain, and how he wishes that Trump could be anything like him. He says Trump was afraid of McCain. That alone is cause enough for Trump's memorandum denouncing Taylor.

Trump says "He illegally published classified conversations to sell his book under the pseudonym 'Anonymous.'"

Trump doesn't say classified material, he says classified conversations. According to those who have gone through his first "A Warning" and his second book "Blowback" in 2023, there isn't any classified information in it at all. Trump is making it all up, literally trumping up charges that have no basis in reality. What's new?

There is also a fact sheet to go along with the memorandum. This one names Taylor. It's called: Donald J. Trump Addresses Risks Associated with Miles Taylor.

In describing his own memorandum, Trump says that the order revokes any type of security clearance Miles Taylor had. He also orders an investigation into any individuals at the University of Pennsylvania that had contact with Taylor.

Trump also orders an investigation into everything Taylor did while a government employee and into his writings to determine if he ever did anything illegal. Trump has already passed sentence. Now it's a matter of finding evidence to support the already determined crime.

At the end of the fact sheet, there is a section labeled:

"DRAINING THE SWAMP: President Trump is delivering on his promise to drain the swamp by rooting out inefficiency, corruption and disloyalty."

There are, of course, three fingers pointing right back at Trump. When did a president ever talk like this? Never. Trump has his own definitions for each word. Inefficiency. Corruption. Disloyalty. Disloyalty is anybody who disagrees with him and makes it known. The Oval Office should be completely secret like it was a SCIF.

Miles Taylor should be lauded as a national hero, not treated like a criminal by a criminal named Trump. There could have been a conservative president that didn't destroy the country in his first term. The second term is a disaster every day.

We already know that there are Trump staff who are too stupid to keep national security information secret.

May there be more Miles Taylors in order to keep us safe from this administration.

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