President Donald Trump on Thursday hit out at former Department of Homeland Security official Miles Taylor, who was recently revealed to be the author of the anonymous 2018 opinion piece criticizing Trump.
In a tweet Thursday afternoon, Trump claimed that Taylor, former chief of staff to Trump’s third Secretary of Homeland Security Kristjen Nielsen, was “only a little known ‘staffer,’” who “scammed” CNN when he denied writing the article in an interview last August.
“So it turns out that the wise guy promoted as ‘Anonymous’ by the @nytimes, named Miles Taylor (who I never even heard of!), was only a little known ‘staffer’ as opposed to a ‘Senior Administration Official’. He then scammed @CNN, lied to @andersoncooper, & got a job there,” Trump tweeted.
According to The New York Times, Taylor was Nielsen’s chief adviser and one of the department’s most senior political officials during that time, and frequently sat in on meetings with top White House officials and even Trump himself. He joined the department in 2017 as a senior adviser and previously worked on Capitol Hill as a staff member on the House Appropriations Committee and as a senior national security aide to Republican legislators.
The president later added that Taylor “also worked at, of all places, @Google. They all have big liability!!!”
Taylor joined Google as its head of national security policy engagement after leaving DHS in 2019.
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