The former chief of staff at the Homeland Security Department took up an advertisement for a political group opposing President Trump, calling the Trump presidency “terrible.” Miles Taylor, who left DHS in 2019, claims that the president wanted to use the agency “for his own political purposes and to thank his own agenda.”
“What we saw week in and week out and for me after two and a half years in that administration was horrible,” Taylor said in a video posted on Twitter Monday by Republican voters against Trump. “We would go in to talk to them about an urgent national security, cyber-attack, threat of terrorism. He was not interested in those things for him. They were not priorities.”
Taylor said in the video that he heard Mr. Trump tell the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut funding to help California because it was destroyed by fires.
“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,” Taylor said. He also criticized Mr Trump’s policy towards families crossing the southern border in the US, saying the president “would have a conscious policy of ripening children from their parents to show those parents that they are in ‘ the first should not come to the border. “
“A lot of the time, the things he wanted to do were not only impossible, but in many cases illegal. He did not want us to tell her it was illegal anymore, because he knew there were , and these were his words, he knew he had magical authorities, “Taylor continued. He called Mr Trump “unfocused” and “undisciplined.”
“I came fully convinced, based on first-hand experience, that the president was ill-equipped and would not be equipped to do his job effectively. And what was worse was to actively damage our security,” he said.
Taylor then said he would support Joe Biden for president, despite their political differences, because “I’m sure Joe Biden will protect the country and I’m sure he will not make the same mistakes as this.”
A White House spokesman responded to Taylor’s allegations in a statement, saying Taylor was “another creature of the DC Swamp.”
“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 bail him out,” he said. Deere in a statement.
Taylor also wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post published on Monday, in which he stated his opposition to the president’s re-election and his support for Biden.
“Like many Americans, I had hoped that Donald Trump, once in office, would soberly accept the actions of the presidency – especially among them the duty to keep America safe. But he did not meet the challenge. Instead, the president ruled by whim, political calculation and self-interest, “Taylor wrote.
He also cited more examples of alleged wrongdoing by the president, such as when he told administration officials to close the border in California-Mexico during an Oval Office meeting on March 28, 2019, as the policy improved for him would be if Arizona were to close as Texas borders. Taylor also said Mr. Trump was concerned with the construction of the wall on the southern border, including its color and what material it would be constructed from.
Taylor criticized Mr Trump’s foreign policy, claiming that the president “has also harmed the country in countless ways that do not directly affect national security, but by stifling hatred and division make Americans deeply less secure.” He also slammed the president for his response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“The president’s bungled response to the coronavirus pandemic is the ultimate example. In his cavalier disregard for the seriousness of the threat, Trump failed to make effective use of the federal crisis response system that worked closely after 9 / “Years of DHS planning for a pandemic threat have been largely devastated. Meanwhile, more than 165,000 Americans have died.”
Taylor’s op-ed and the ad by Republican voters against Trump come as the Democratic National Convention begins Monday its first event day. Mr. Trump is, too campaign events in Minnesota and Wisconsin on Monday.
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