Miles Taylor, who served as Chief of Staff to former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
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“What we saw, week in and week out, and for me, 2 1/2 years in that administration, was horrible,” Taylor said in an ad for the Republican voters’ group against Trump. Taylor follows up that when employees of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tried to discuss issues of national security with Trump, ‘he was not interested in those things. … For him, they were not priorities. ”
Taylor claims that Trump tried to “exploit the Department of Homeland Security for his own political purposes and to fuel his own agenda,” claiming that Trump tried to cut off federal wildlife aid to California because Californians did not support him. He also met with Trump on immigration, claiming that the president ‘wanted’ further than the zero tolerance policy that led to child separation and ‘a conscious policy to rip children from their parents to show those parents that they do not must come to the border in the first place. ”
Trump, Taylor claims, often gave illegal orders to DHS and “did not want us to tell him it was illegal anymore because he knew that … he had ‘magical authorities’.”
“Given what I’ve experienced in the administration, I need to support Joe Biden for president,” Taylor adds.
Taylor published an op-ed in The Washington Post on Monday, condemning the president on similar grounds. The op-ed shakes Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, stating “in his cavalier disregard for the seriousness of the threat, Trump failed to make effective use of the federal crisis response system built close to 9/11. Years of DHS planning for a pandemic threat are largely wasted. ”
The group published the announcement the same day that several Republican figures have been set up to address the virtual Democratic National Convention. Direct speakers Monday night include former Gov. of Ohio, John Kasich, former Gov. of New Jersey, Christine Whitman, former CEO of Hewlett Packard, Meg Whitman and former rep. Susan Molinari (NY).
Critics of the president have also indicated condemnation by former DHS officials of his deployment of federal troops to Portland, Ore. Former directors Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff have both spoken out against the commitment.
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