President Joe Biden could lose next year’s election and Donald Trump could return to the Oval Office, said Miles Taylor, the former Chief of Staff to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. Taylor called himself a member of the “resistance” inside the Trump administration.
“There’s been a number of polls that show the ex-president beating Joe Biden by several points. It would be hubris to say, ‘Oh, no, we would beat him again a second time.’ Actually, I don’t think that. If the election was held today, I think Donald Trump would defeat Joe Biden, and that really concerns me,” Taylor told The Guardian.
He first came to light in 2018 with an op-ed in The New York Times under the name “Anonymous” detailing efforts to derail Trump policies and keep Trump’s alleged frequent erratic behavior from becoming policy.
Trump Russia Stance Alarmed D.C. Insiders
Taylor noted in the 2018 op-ed titled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration” that members of the Trump cabinet went to great lengths to keep Trump’s directives from being implemented. Taylor alleged that Trump ran a “two-track presidency.”
“In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations,” Taylor wrote in 2018. “On Russia, for instance, the president was reluctant to expel so many of Mr. Putin’s spies as punishment for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. He complained for weeks about senior staff members letting him get boxed into further confrontation with Russia, and he expressed frustration that the United States continued to impose sanctions on the country for its malign behavior. But his national security team knew better — such actions had to be taken, to hold Moscow accountable.”
Taylor continued: “This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state.”
He noted that the leaders of Executive Branch agencies worked to thwart Trump’s directives and that the former president allegedly would “veer off topic and off the rails” and engage in impulsive decisions that were not always thought through and “have to be walked back.”
Taylor outed himself in October 2020 after two years of speculation.
Taylor Worries That Donald Trump Could Go Rogue
Taylor told The Guardian he worries that the former president would be able to do whatever he would want to do in a second administration and would be uninhibited. Reports suggest that Trump wants to exercise tighter control over the Executive Branch agencies in a second term.
“The aides that guarded that book were concerned about the president reading it, or MAGA allies around him getting ahold of it, because especially towards the end of the administration, they witnessed the president’s proclivity to abuse his authorities for political purposes, and especially as he started to signal that the 2020 election might be stolen or he could be cheated, those same people were concerned about Trump realising he had even more extraordinary powers than he knew and that he might potentially use those to cement a coup,” Taylor told The Guardian.
He claims that Trump election attorney Christina Bobb almost ended up in possession of a highly classified “break glass” document that discussed the president’s emergency powers that Taylor called the “Doomsday Book.”
Bobb allegedly lied to the FBI about a search of Mar-a-Lago that she didn’t conduct and legally certified she had.
“I worked with every person I knew to make sure that Christina Bobb didn’t get assigned to the National Security Council,” an anonymous source with alleged knowledge of the situation, told Taylor, according to the book. Taylor’s source claimed “that the woman was dangerously unqualified. Career officials believed that Bobb was the type of ideologue who might misuse the sensitive NSC perch.”
“We were a hair’s width away from her taking the role.”
John Rossomando is a defense and counterterrorism analyst and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting.
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