“What we saw week in and week out, for me, after two and a half years in that administration, was appalling. We would go in to try to talk to him about an urgent national security issue – cyberattack, threat of terrorism – he was “not interested in those things. For him, they were not priorities,” Taylor says in the video.
“Given what I’ve experienced in the administration, I have to support Joe Biden for president and although I’m not a Democrat, although I do not agree on important issues, I’m sure Joe Biden will protect the country and I am. he’s sure he’s not making the same mistakes as this president. ”
In the video, Taylor accuses Trump of instructing FEMA to withhold disaster funding to California after devastating wildfires in that state because voters in that state had not voted for him for president.
“He told us to stop giving money to people whose homes burned down from a wildfire because he was so angry that people in the state of California did not support him and that politics was not a basis for him,” Taylor said. in the video.
Taylor has worked at Google’s public policy arm since leaving the Trump administration as its U.S. lead for advanced technology and security strategy, but a source familiar with the matter said he took leave until election day last week to make the public more public. 2020 presidential campaign.
Taylor has not held talks with the Biden campaign, the source said, but decided to approach Republican voters against Trump group to speak out.
Other former Trump administration officials – including most recently former National Security Adviser John Bolton – have also spoken out against Trump, but a few have taken the step to publicly support Biden. Anthony Scaramucci, who recently served as Trump’s director of communications, also expressed his support for Biden.
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