#milestaylor — Public Fediverse posts
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> In 2018, we needed a Faraday bag to speak freely in a cabin in rural Virginia, but in 2026, federal employees evidently need lawyers on speed dial because the president’s henchmen might come for their phones at any minute.
#milestaylor #substack #defianceorg #wiretaps
#uspol #uspolitics #trump
#faradaybagshttps://open.substack.com/pub/defiance/p/let-me-tell-you-about-the-time-donald
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> A captured EAC could conceivably start to do the dirty work right away, under the direction of loyalists the White House plans to parachute into the commission. What’s more, they could rewrite state-specific instructions on the voter forms to create registration traps and onerous requirements, confusing instructions, translation issues, and on and on. ...
Trump may think he found a Trojan horse. What he actually found is a trap of his own making. Every action he tries to take to abuse the EAC will be met with resistance and tie him up in litigation as the clock ticks to November. The president’s corruption may be brazen, but it’s also sloppy and short-sighted. And we’re going to keep fighting it in the courts, in the states, and in the open, where schemes like this one go to die.
#milestaylor #defianceorg
#substack #trump #uspol #eac #electionassurancecommission
#uspolitics #votingrights #uselections #midterms2026
#TrumpvSlaughter #scotus
#supremecourtus #saveamericaact
#VoteByMail #votersuppression
#proofofcitizenshiphttps://open.substack.com/pub/defiance/p/trump-thinks-he-found-a-trojan-horse
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CN Autoritarian TakeOver
Inspiring #MilesTaylor
"Drawing on his experience inside government and living the consequences of speaking openly, he says that real threat to #US #democracy isn't the politicians or hard-liners : it's the two-thirds of people who don’t speak up."
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> While there’s only so much we can individually do to check Trump’s foreign policy follies after the midterms, there’s a whole lot our allies can do. From London, Paris, and Berlin to Kyiv and Taipei, we must send a message to our friends that they need to batten down the hatches. At best, they should prepare to sustain the free world without us. At worst, they must prepare to protect it from us.
America’s democratic friends need to stand up to the bully, especially when Trump tries to coerce them into his self-enrichment machine. They should deepen their relationships with others democracies that still have the courage to defend free minds, free markets, and free people. And they should reassess ways to keep to keep the West’s autocratic adversaries from seizing the initiative while Trump swoons over their ability to carry out societal repression and tries to mimic it.
-- Miles Taylor, May 22, 2023
https://open.substack.com/pub/defiance/p/trump-is-likely-to-lose-the-midterms
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#trump #uspol #midtermelections
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🚨 FAFO, BITCHES ⚖️
> Today, a coalition of locally elected district attorneys and prosecutors from across the United States have officially put the Trump administration on notice: any federal agent who shows up at a polling place in violation of state or federal law will be investigated and prosecuted under the laws of the jurisdiction in which they act. And they will be jailed, if needed.
The announcement, made by the Project for the Fight Against Federal Overreach — “FAFO” — was first reported by Politico and comes a week after President Trump refused to rule out deploying ICE officers to polling locations during the November elections.
-- Miles Taylor, May 19, 2026
https://open.substack.com/pub/defiance/p/local-prosecutors-warn-trump-if-you
#midtermelections #midterms2026
#midtermelections2026
#votingrights #voting2026
#voting #ICE #votingpolls
#FAFO #novemberelections
#novemberrevolution #trump #NovemberMidterms #politico #novemberreckoning #defianceorg
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"To be clear, health officials are saying the hantavirus that spread on the Hondius cruise ship is not the next pandemic. But something will be. And if it comes during the Trump presidency, the federal government that meets the crisis will be less experienced, less honest, more loyal to one man, and more openly willing to use suffering as a tool of political coercion than at any point in American history. We’ve seen this president mismanage a pandemic, and he learned all the wrong lessons."
-- Miles Taylor
https://open.substack.com/pub/defiance/p/the-next-pandemic-is-coming-here
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When is Free Speech a Crime?
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#MilesTaylor #trump #ice #immigrants
Miles Taylor is a national security expert and he worked in the first Trump administration , he knows what he is talking about.
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"It's a lot easier to cut a deal with a #Autocrat than it is with a #Democrat." Whistle-blower #MilesTaylor on why Trump has SUCH an infatuation on making deals with #Autocratic countries as opposed to #Democratic countries, his business would've been in shambles after his first administration.
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Earlier this month, #Trump issued 2 #ExecutiveOrders revoking the #security clearances of #ChrisKrebs, who led #CISA under during Trump’s first term & rebutted his claims that the 2020 election had been rigged & stolen, & #MilesTaylor, who once served as chief of staff at the #DHS. Taylor anonymously wrote a NYT opinion essay in 2018 accusing Trump of rampant “amorality” & telling of an internal government “resistance.”
#RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #Autocracy #FirstAmendment #law
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“It brings to mind the abuses of power that characterize #authoritarian nations, not the #UnitedStates. No matter one’s party or #politics, every American should reject the notion that the awesome #power of the presidency can be used to pursue individual vendettas. Behavior of this kind is more to be expected from a royal despot than the elected leader of a constitutional republic. This is the path of #autocracy, not #democracy.”
#RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #ChrisKrebs #MilesTaylor #Trump
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A number of prominent #Republicans, including several fmr members of the first #Trump admini, have signed an open letter decrying him for using his #power to punish 2 fmr admin officials who criticized him, likening his actions to those of a “royal despot.”
“For a president to personally & publicly direct the levers of the federal government against publicly named citizens for political reasons sets a new & perilous precedent in our republic,” the group wrote.
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THIS IS DICTATOR SHIT!
#Dotard47's admin are demanding that Cabinet members and staffers wear a gold pin with Trump's face on it
#DictatorBehaviour #FascistUSA
And Trump goes after critics like former Trump official #MilesTaylor
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That same day, #Trump also signed a memo targeting #MilesTaylor, a fmr US ofcl who wrote an opinion column & book critical of Trump under the pen name “Anonymous.”
In the Oval Office last week, Trump called #ChrisKrebs a “wiseguy” & mocked an appearance he had seen from Krebs on TV.
“He came out right after the election, which was a rigged election, a badly rigged election…this guy Krebs was saying, ‘Oh, the election was great, it was great,’” Trump said.
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…The other allegation #Trump makes against #MilesTaylor is that his anonymous writings “stoked dissension.” Trump said that amounted to “manufacturing sensationalist reports on the existence of a supposed ‘resistance’ within the Federal Government that ‘vowed’ to undermine & render ineffective a sitting President.”
But the idea that there was some secretive group of govt ofcls working to undermine Trump & check his impulses was also promoted by…Trump himself. -
…#Trump’s memo on #MilesTaylor is similarly hyperbolic. It accuses him of conduct that “could properly be characterized as treasonous & as possibly violating the Espionage Act.”
That alleged conduct? Trump claims Taylor’s 2019 book, which he also wrote anonymously, “illegally published classified conversations” & “is full of falsehoods & fabricated stories.”
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#Trump crosses the Rubicon on ordering investigations of foes
Trump is now expressly ordering investigations of his foes — even criminal ones. That’s something Trump’s AG, #PamBondi, downplayed as a possibility at her confirmation hearing. (When asked what role the White House would play in investigation & prosecution decisions, Bondi responded: “It is the Department of Justice’s decision.”)
#law #AbuseOfPower #MilesTaylor #ChrisKrebs #RevengePolitics
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#Trump intensified his efforts to punish his critics by signing a pair of memos directing #DOJ to investigate 2 ofcls from his first admin & stripping them of any security clearances they may have.
Trump’s targeting of #MilesTaylor, a fmr DHS ofcl in Trump’s first term, & #ChrisKrebs, a fmr top #cybersecurity ofcl, came as the Republican president has sought to [ab]use the powers of the presidency to retaliate against his adversaries…
#RevengePolitics #law #AbuseOfPower
https://apnews.com/article/trump-retaliation-miles-taylor-chris-krebs-efb1416926df9d1086fa21349a18f90b -
#MilesTaylor #ChrisKrebs #DOJ #authoritarianism #extremism
*WATCH(9min)Complete insanity! An executive order??? POTUS commanding the DOJ to investigate individuals by name? An executive order??? 🤦♂️😱
‘Insane authoritarian stuff’: Trump directs Justice Department to investigate political enemies
"'Sarah Longwell, Publisher for The Bulwark joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to Donald Trump signing an executive order meant to target political ..."
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#Trump new #ExecutiveOrder targets former #CISA director #ChrisKrebs & #MilesTaylor aka #Anonymous
Orders #DOJ to investigate
Accuses them of “treason”
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Former #TrumpAdministration official calls #Trump "incandescently stupid" --
"This fifty-page memo that we would normally give to any other president about what his options are is something Trump literally can't read. The man doesn't read. We've gotta boil this down into a one-pager in his voice," #MilesTaylor said. https://www.rawstory.com/incandescently-stupid-ex-dhs-official-says-trump-needed-highly-classified-memos-dumbed-down/