Whistle Blower Miles Taylor and His Story

Miles Taylor

This frightening story is from Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the president’s Department of Homeland Security. It is from the Washington Post today:

“In a video for a Republican anti-Trump group on Tuesday afternoon, the former chief of staff at Trump’s Department of Homeland Security, Miles Taylor, confirmed reports that Trump had offered officials pardons in exchange for possibly illegal actions at the border. Legal experts have argued this would, in fact, be illegal.

In a video for a group called Republican Voters Against Trump released Tuesday, Taylor said he personally witnessed Trump in April 2019 offering officials pardons if they were criminally charged for their actions in stemming illegal immigration at the border.

“The president said to the senior leadership of the Department of Homeland Security, behind the scenes, ‘We should not let anyone else into the United States,’ ” Taylor says in the video. “And even though he’d been told on repeated occasions that the way he wanted to do it was illegal, his response was to say, ‘Do it. If you get in trouble, I’ll pardon you.’ ”

Taylor summed it up: “The president offered to pardon U.S. government officials for breaking the law to implement his immigration policy.” Taylor said he decided at that point to quit.

In a Washington Post op-ed last week, Taylor said that Trump routinely tried to use the department in which Taylor served for his “political benefit” — and often explicitly so: ‘He insisted on a near-total focus on issues that he said were central to his reelection — in particular building a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. Though he was often talked out of bad ideas at the last moment, the president would make obviously partisan requests of DHS, including when he told us to close the California-Mexico border during a March 28, 2019, Oval Office meeting — it would be better for him politically, he said, than closing long stretches of the Texas or Arizona border — or to “dump” illegal immigrants in Democratic-leaning sanctuary cities and states to overload their authorities, as he insisted on several times.’”

In a different video, Taylor claimed Trump that asked for withholding disaster aid when California was suffering from wildfires. California didn’t support him politically and thus needed to be punished. Taylor said: “On a phone call with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, he told FEMA to cut off the money and to no longer give individual assistance to California. He told us to stop giving money to people whose houses had burned down from a wildfire, because he was so rageful that people in the state of California … didn’t support him and that, politically, it wasn’t a base for him. .... A lot of the time, the things he wanted to do not only were impossible, but in many cases illegal. He didn’t want us to tell them it was illegal anymore, because he knew that there were — and these were his words — he knew that he had ‘magical authorities.’ ”

If what Taylor is alleging, it is clear that the president is not president for all Americans. He is only interested in service to people in states that support him. That is the case even if it mean he screws his supporters in states that do not support him.

What a rotten, evil, failed leader. He has no magical authorities, just lies, hate, corruption and incompetence in service to himself.