Former US Homeland Security official reveals he wrote anonymous op-ed on Trump

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Miles Taylor was chief of staff in the US Department of Homeland Security until 2019.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

WASHINGTON - A former US Department of Homeland Security official on Wednesday revealed he was the author of an anonymous 2018 New York Times op-ed and later book that excoriated President Donald Trump, stepping forward to urge Americans to vote against Trump.

He disclosed his identity on Wednesday in a statement on Medium, an online publishing platform, ahead of next week's presidential election. "With that in mind, he doesn't deserve a second term in office, and we don't deserve to live through it." Taylor, who described himself as part of the"resistance" within the Trump administration in the anonymous editorial, has also publicly criticised Trump.

 

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