‘What we saw was scary’: Former senior Trump official Miles Taylor supports Joe Biden in devastating video

A former Trump administration official has signed Joe Biden in a damn video produced by a Republican group against the president.

“What we saw week in and week out, and for me, after two and a half years in that administration, was terrible,” Miles Taylor said in a video of Republican voters against Trump. “We would go in and talk to him about an urgent national security issue – cyberattack, terrorist threat – he was not interested in those things. For him, they were not priorities.”

Mr. Taylor, who had served as chief of staff of the Homeland Security department under former secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, is one of the top officials of the former administration to distinguish the president’s rival.

“Given what I’ve experienced in the administration, I need 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 “I trust he is not making the same mistakes as this president,” he said in the video.

The president wanted to “restart” a practice of separating children from their families on the U.S.-Mexico border after ending it in 2018, despite a growing humanitarian crisis forcing thousands of children into federal custody while their migrant families became prosecuted, Mr. Taylor claimed.

“He wanted to go further and 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,” Mr Taylor said in the video. “He did not want us to tell him it was illegal anymore because he knew there were, and these were his words. He knew he had ‘magical authorities’.”

Mr. Taylor also wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post, published on Monday, that reflects the accusations and illustrates a president who has “ruled by whim, political calculation and self-interest”.

Agencies involved in the initial “zero tolerance” border decision “were not prepared to enforce the policy, resulting in a catastrophic backlog of detentions that separated migrants and their children separately,” Mr Taylor wrote.

In the column, he claims that the president sought to “dump” people entering the US without legal permission in “democratic-leaning sanctuaries and states to overload their authorities because he insulted several times”.

The “president’s indiscipline was also a constant source of frustration,” he asserted, referring to a February 2019 meeting to prevent a possible government shutdown in which Mr. Trump held a phone call with DHS. discuss the color of the wall “.

“He was particularly interested in the merits of using spray paint and how the steel structure should be covered,” Mr Taylor said. “Episodes like this happened almost weekly.”

The president’s campaign did not return immediately The independenthis request for comment.

Mr. Taylor also claimed that the president had directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to “cut the money and no longer provide individual assistance” to people in California following deadly wildfires in the state.

“He told us to stop giving money to people whose houses were burned in 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,” he said. Mr Taylor said.

The president wanted to “exploit the DHS” for his own political purposes in order to fuel his own agenda, “Mr Taylor said, claiming that officials who continue to serve in the administration have warned him that a second term – if the president re-elected – would be “no-hold-barred” and “shock-and-awe”.

Mr. Taylor is among several high-profile officials from previous administrations who have publicly ousted the president, including former national security chief John Bolton.

Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as director of communications for the White House, also signed Mr Biden as president.