Former Trump official accused of betrayal of 8 ways in which he
Former National Security official Miles Taylor says that “he will not shut up” after President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Justice to investigate him for alleged betrayal of an “anonymous” opinion article that he wrote while he was under the first Trump administration.
The former official described his eight -point action plan on social networks earlier this week.
“1. First, I will not shut up,” Taylor wrote on Monday in X, the platform previously known as Twitter. “Without threat, without investigation, no reprisal order will work. I will continue writing, speaking and appearing, not despite the pressure, but that is why.”
Taylor used a pseudonym to destroy the “amorality” of the president in an essay for the New York Times in 2018, in which he described himself as a senior official and part of the “resistance.” Later, Taylor revealed himself as the author of the essay, which led Trump to take extreme measures earlier this year.
The president wrote in a memorandum in April that Taylor’s behavior could have been a “treacherous” violation of the espionage law and ordered the Secretary of National Security to investigate his actions as an employee of the Government.
Taylor, who served as chief of cabinet of former Trump DHS Secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, rejected him at that time and continued to do so on Monday.
“2. I will not apologize to tell the truth,” he wrote. “I will never apologize for the warning about Trump’s attempts to abuse his power, bribe government officials or sabotage their fellow citizens. In fact, I will continue to hold that mirror in his face, proudly, every time I have the opportunity.”
Taylor was significantly included in the “List of random enemies” of Book 2023 “Gangsters of the Government.” Written by Trump’s loyal turned into director of the FBI Kash Patel, he describes a vision to take energetic measures against those considered part of the nebulous “deep state.”
Taylor promulgated his listed resilience plan on Monday by pointing out that the president “is accelerating his revenge campaign” and recognizing that he is “in his list of enemies.” The former attached official said that “he is not afraid” of compensation, and went further.
“In fact, I plan to continue challenging their petulant and applicant tantrums,” Taylor wrote.
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In addition, he promised not to pretend that the vindictive actions of the Trump administration are more than “real authoritarianism, wrapped in the American flag”, to be “vocally in solidarity with others in the list of enemies” and not succumb to the growing legal pressure.
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“Trump’s attendees said he was aimed at ‘sending a message’,” Taylor wrote. “Well, let me send a message in return. I will not be a warning story. I will be a counterexample and I will show how to be attacked by Trump can be used as a way of making others stop against him.”
Taylor also promised to continue organizing politically against Trump, telling his followers that complainants must be defended so that democracy survives and that there is “strength in numbers.”
“I will not fear,” he wrote in his final publication. “Fear is the oxygen that feeds the autocracy. I will not yield.