Trump Customs and Border official fired over a wedding photo: report

A major supporter of Donald Trump's tariffs, who was appointed this year as executive director of the Office of Trade Relations at Customs and Border Protection, has been banished after a picture of him attending the wedding of one the president's critics was circulated this week.

According to a report from the Washington Post, George E. Bogden was reportedly pink-slipped because he attended the wedding of former Trump administration official Miles Taylor who wrote the notorious 2018 New York Times opinion piece critical of Trump under the name "Anonymous."

According to the Post, Bogden's firing stunned fellow administration officials and that it reportedly related to "to a Facebook photo recently circulated among Trump officials. Taylor was married in Jamaica in 2019 — a year before he publicly revealed himself as the author of the anonymous op-ed."

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The report added that Bogden also attended a second Taylor wedding in 2023, long after it was known he was "Anonymous," with an administration official admitting to the Post that the photo was the cause of the dismissal.

Earlier in the week, Politico reported that Bogden “'was integrally involved in implementing' Trump’s 15 executive orders related to trade, and 'was known internally as a proponent of the power of customs to collect external revenue.'"

Taylor is currently facing an investigation from the Department of Justice at Trump's insistence after the president complained, "I think it's like a traitor. It's like spying. He walks into the office. He's supposed to be sitting here. And he wrote a book, Anonymous, and I always thought it was terrible. And now we have a chance to find out whether or not it was terrible."

You can read more from the Washington Post here.