Miles Taylor has revealed that he was anonymous, the author behind a scathing op-ed in The New York Times back in 2018. At the time he wrote, “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.” In a statement today, Taylor wrote:
I witnessed Trump’s inability to do his job over the course of two-and-a-half years. Everyone saw it, though most were hesitant to speak up for fear of reprisals.
So when I left the Administration I wrote A Warning, a character study of the current Commander in Chief and a caution to voters that it wasn’t as bad as it looked inside the Trump Administration — it was worse. While I claim sole authorship of the work, the sentiments expressed within it were widely held among officials at the highest levels of the federal government. In other words, Trump’s own lieutenants were alarmed by his instability.
Mr. Taylor resigned from the Department of Homeland Security in June 2019, and went public with his criticism of Mr. Trump this past summer. He released a video just before the start of the Republican National Convention declaring that the president was unfit for office and endorsed Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee.
There is already backlash about why Taylor stayed anonymous so long and why he went along with some of the controversial policies from the Trump administration.
The New York Times is also receiving criticism.
