Miles Taylor, the former Trump administration official who publicly endorsed the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden
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“At the end of the day, the man with his finger on the nuclear trigger is a man whose mind is not at work on a daily basis,” Taylor said in an interview on CNN. “That’s alarming, and that’s not the opinion of just a handful of people in the administration.”
Taylor, who served in the Homeland Security (DHS) department between 2017 and 2019, added that more people would speak out in opposition to Trump in the coming weeks.
“What they’ll tell you is that this was a widespread sentiment in the administration,” Taylor said. “And I can tell you that today in the administration you spoke to friends who sent me messages saying, ‘Thank you for speaking out,’ that there are many people very close to the President who feel this way about him, about his leadership and about a wish he has no second term in office. “
“At the end of the day, the man with his finger on the nuclear trigger is a man whose mind is not at work on a daily basis. … I can be one person who speaks. You will see more people in the coming weeks, ”former Trump official Miles Taylor says of the president pic.twitter.com/T303hztMLp
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On Monday, the group of Republican voters against Trump released an ad in which Taylor called the Trump presidency “terrible” and said he felt compelled to vote for Biden this November “seeing what I experienced in the administration.” Among other things, Taylor claimed that Trump was trying to exploit DHS for his own “political purposes and to thank his own agenda.”
He claimed that Trump was trying to cut federal wildlife aid to California because the state did not support him and that his policy of child separation at the southern border was part of an effort to stop people from ‘going’ to the border in the first place ‘.
The former DHS official, who once served as chief of staff to former secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
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In a tweet from early Tuesday morning, Trump branded Taylor a “dissatisfied employee,” saying he had never heard from him.
“He left & is on the open arms Fake News circuit,” tweeted Trump. “Said to be a real ‘stiff’. They will take everyone up against us!”
Speaking on CNN, Taylor dismissed Trump’s remarks, saying that “every time Donald Trump finds out that someone does not share his views or opposes him, he really, really quickly finds a way to say, ‘I know you person not. ‘ “
He later added that many joined the administration and believed that Trump could do an effective job in the White House only to be deeply disappointed by his performance.
“I think at this point it’s time for us to put country over party, and I hope other Republicans do the same,” he said.
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