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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums⭐️⭐️⭐️Former senior Trump administration official endorses Joe Biden⭐️⭐️⭐️
(CNN)Miles Taylor, a former senior Trump administration official, endorsed Joe Biden's presidential campaign on Monday, becoming one of the highest-ranking former Trump administration officials to do so.
Taylor, who served as chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, also accused President Donald Trump of repeatedly using his office for political purposes, including directing officials to cut wildfire relief funding to California because voters there overwhelmingly opposed him in 2016.
Taylor, a longtime Republican and political appointee at DHS from 2017 to 2019, endorsed the former vice president in a video produced by the group Republican Voters Against Trump in which he also made several allegations about Trump's conduct. He also wrote an op-ed published in The Washington Post calling the President "dangerous" for America.
"What we saw week in and week out, for me, after two and a half years in that administration, was terrifying. We would go in to try to talk to him about a pressing national security issue -- cyberattack, terrorism threat -- he wasn't interested in those things. To him, they weren't priorities," Taylor says in the video.
Taylor, who served as chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, also accused President Donald Trump of repeatedly using his office for political purposes, including directing officials to cut wildfire relief funding to California because voters there overwhelmingly opposed him in 2016.
Taylor, a longtime Republican and political appointee at DHS from 2017 to 2019, endorsed the former vice president in a video produced by the group Republican Voters Against Trump in which he also made several allegations about Trump's conduct. He also wrote an op-ed published in The Washington Post calling the President "dangerous" for America.
"What we saw week in and week out, for me, after two and a half years in that administration, was terrifying. We would go in to try to talk to him about a pressing national security issue -- cyberattack, terrorism threat -- he wasn't interested in those things. To him, they weren't priorities," Taylor says in the video.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/politics/miles-taylor-trump-joe-biden-endorse/index.html
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⭐️⭐️⭐️Former senior Trump administration official endorses Joe Biden⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Original Post)
spanone
Aug 2020
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demmiblue
(36,865 posts)1. K&R
tblue37
(65,409 posts)2. K&R for visibility. nt
Laelth
(32,017 posts)3. Good one! k&r for visibility. n/t
-Laelth
demmiblue
(36,865 posts)4. Another kick. n/t
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)5. K & R for visibility - far and wide. RVAT. n/t
OAITW r.2.0
(24,505 posts)6. Hope it runs constantly on Fox News.
That's the place where it would do the most good.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,036 posts)7. Good
NNadir
(33,527 posts)8. I'm sure that anyone who knows him and possesses an iota...
...of decency is appalled.
The problem is that most of the people around him lack decency, and as his niece informed us, he has never displayed a mote of decency himself.