All posts tagged "Miles Taylor"

Former Trump administration official Miles Taylor, who now runs DEFIANCE.org, warned in a column that he knows what follows the midterms if voters stay home.

Indeed, he said, if left to his own devices, President Donald Trump is “prepared to finish off your future.”

Taylor said he posted a scorecard in January showing that nearly all of his warnings about a second Trump term had come true. He argued that if Trump’s movement wins on Nov. 3 and Democrats fall short, Trump will believe he has unchecked power....

A former Department of Homeland Security official accused the Justice Department of threatening to "starve poor kids" to force states into mass deportations.

In a Thursday article for the Defiance Substack, former Trump DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor warned that the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel issued a legal opinion that threatens to pull federal funding from states that don't "snitch on illegal aliens," he wrote.

Under the new guideline, states that accept federal money through TANF or SSI, two welfare programs, must direct all state agencies to report suspected undocumented immigrants to DHS or risk being cut off....

Department of Homeland Security expert and whistleblower Miles Taylor warned that the Trump administration plans to use "woefully unequipped" agents for elections.

During a Tuesday appearance on CNN, Taylor responded to reports that DHS plans to launch voter fraud investigations into nine states, mostly blue states, and use Homeland Security Investigations agents to pursue leads and conduct field interviews to support prosecutorial review.

"This is complete madness," Taylor warned. "I've spent 20 years working with this department. I've worked with almost every homeland security secretary of every presidential administration of both parties, and most of them would tell you their immigration agents are absolutely, woefully unequipped to jump into an election and play a critical role in an election."...

A former Trump administration insider on Saturday signaled that a cabinet member facing a rash of controversies could be on his way out.

Miles Taylor, who served as Homeland Security Chief of Staff in the first Trump administration and is now a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, told MS NOW anchor Alex Witt that FBI Director Kash Patel's job could be coming to an end — and suggested it could be soon. He cited reports of Patel's alleged alcohol consumption as something that Trump could ultimately see as reason to dismiss him.

"I think it's remarkable that he's made it this far, genuinely," Taylor said. "And if there's one thing that the president doesn't tolerate, it's excessive drinking."...

President Donald Trump's mental fitness has become a growing concern, but a former staffer warned the problem is even worse than the public realizes.

Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff for the Department of Homeland Security, published a column for The i Paper recounting an alarming anecdote from 2018, when Trump and his staffers were discussing the impending Category 5 hurricane, and the president veered wildly off topic into a tangent about helicopters breaking down because they had "too many parts."

"Let me be direct about something the political press keeps dancing around: the debate about Trump’s mental fitness has always been somewhat misdirected," Taylor wrote. "The question was never simply, is he sharp? It was always, can the system around him absorb his worst impulses? In his first term, it just barely could. In his second, it cannot. That’s the real story, and it’s far more alarming than any cognitive decline narrative."...

Former Trump administration Homeland Security staffer Miles Taylor signaled that Steve Bannon's recent warning about President Donald Trump using federal immigration agents at airport security checkpoints as a "test run" for the upcoming midterms should be taken seriously.

In an exclusive interview with Raw America and Raw Story founder John Byrne, Taylor described how he has long expected Trump would try to use federal law enforcement in an attempt to intimidate Americans at the polls.

"We have seen militia groups around the country in previous elections, including elections in which Donald Trump has been a candidate, go to the polls with black jackets on and with rifles to try to scare people in those districts from going to vote," Taylor said. "And now, it seems to be the type of thing that the president's allies, at least, are encouraging him to do around election season. And Donald Trump has flirted with that idea. That's alarming." ...