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Opinion by Miles Taylor
August 17, 2020 at 2:05 p.m. EDT
Miles Taylor served at the Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019, including as chief of staff.
After serving for more than two years in the Department of Homeland Securitys leadership during the Trump administration, I can attest that the country is less secure as a direct result of the presidents actions.
Like many Americans, I had hoped that Donald Trump, once in office, would soberly accept the burdens of the presidency foremost among them the duty to keep America safe. But he did not rise to the challenge. Instead, the president has governed by whim, political calculation and self-interest.
I wasnt in a position to judge how his personal deficiencies affected other important matters, such as the environment or energy policy, but when it came to national security, I witnessed the damning results firsthand.
The president has tried to turn DHS, the nations largest law enforcement agency, into a tool used for his political benefit. He insisted on a near-total focus on issues that he said were central to his reelection in particular building a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. Though he was often talked out of bad ideas at the last moment, the president would make obviously partisan requests of DHS, including when he told us to close the California-Mexico border during a March 28, 2019, Oval Office meeting it would be better for him politically, he said, than closing long stretches of the Texas or Arizona border or to dump illegal immigrants in Democratic-leaning sanctuary cities and states to overload their authorities, as he insisted several times.
August 17, 2020 at 2:05 p.m. EDT
Miles Taylor served at the Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019, including as chief of staff.
After serving for more than two years in the Department of Homeland Securitys leadership during the Trump administration, I can attest that the country is less secure as a direct result of the presidents actions.
Like many Americans, I had hoped that Donald Trump, once in office, would soberly accept the burdens of the presidency foremost among them the duty to keep America safe. But he did not rise to the challenge. Instead, the president has governed by whim, political calculation and self-interest.
I wasnt in a position to judge how his personal deficiencies affected other important matters, such as the environment or energy policy, but when it came to national security, I witnessed the damning results firsthand.
The president has tried to turn DHS, the nations largest law enforcement agency, into a tool used for his political benefit. He insisted on a near-total focus on issues that he said were central to his reelection in particular building a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. Though he was often talked out of bad ideas at the last moment, the president would make obviously partisan requests of DHS, including when he told us to close the California-Mexico border during a March 28, 2019, Oval Office meeting it would be better for him politically, he said, than closing long stretches of the Texas or Arizona border or to dump illegal immigrants in Democratic-leaning sanctuary cities and states to overload their authorities, as he insisted several times.
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Trump's Former DHS Chief of Staff, Miles Taylor: Trump actively doing damage to our security (Original Post)
steve2470
Aug 2020
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Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)1. Wow, look at this courageous young man!!!
***MILES TAYLOR***
RESPECT
and
THANK YOU
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)2. There should be a convention line up of
Former staff that now endorse Biden.