The White House announced Taylor’s comments, pointing out that during his tenure in the administration, from 2017 to 2019, he never made public.
“This individual is another creature of the DC swamp who never understood the importance of the president’s agenda, or why the American people chose him and clearly just want to be in the money,” he said. said White House spokesman in a statement to POLITICO. “President Trump has an unusual number of achievements, despite government bureaucrats who are only for themselves, not the forgotten men and women of this country.”
In the ad, Taylor claims that Trump asked for funding to withdraw from the Federal Emergency Management Agency during catastrophic burns that caused millions of dollars in damage in California because the state was not part of its political base.
“He told us to stop giving money to people whose homes were burned because he was so deceitful that people in the state of California did not support him,” Taylor said.
Trump tweeted in January 2019 that California should stop receiving FEMA money until “they get their deed together” on good forest management. He also blew up state governor Gavin Newsom in November and threatened to cut future funding unless the state took measures to curb forest fires.
Taylor also claimed that Trump was trying to separate families of immigrants in order to restrict them from entering the country illegally. Under the Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy, hundreds of families were separated when parents were detained for crossing the border illegally. The administration officially turned the course on divorcing children from their parents after a furious outcry, but Taylor claims that Trump was trying to reinstate the practice to scare immigrants.
Taylor said in his op-ed that Trump became “visibly angry” when Nielsen refused. Nielsen left her post in April of last year.
“He wanted to go further in order to have a conscious policy of maturing children of their parents to show those parents that they should not come to the border in the first place,” Taylor said.
The president also ignored pressing concerns about national security, dismissing briefings to focus on building a wall on the southern border, Taylor wrote. Administration officials also had to talk to Trump about illegal acts, Taylor said, although Trump said he could get away with them because he had “magical authority.”
In the ad, Taylor described Trump as “one of the most unfocused and undisciplined senior managers I have ever encountered.”
The president’s former adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner was outraged at Taylor on Monday, calling him a ‘nice guy’ who could not handle the pressure of his job.
“It makes a lot of sense to me that he endorses Joe Biden – when he worked at the Department of Homeland Security, no wall was built and the border was wide open,” Kushner told Wolf Blitzer of CNN. “That’s why the president changed the team there.”
