Posted on 08/17/2020 9:01:30 PM PDT by Signalman
I assumed the Biden endorsement would be someone more of the caliber of Omarosa Manigault.
Who knew DJT would hire morons?
Dumb faggot Nothing more
It’s a female......
Among other things he is angry he lost his job when Nielsen was replaced.
I am not surprised but I couldn't find any info on his lifestyle. Do you have a link ?
This is HUGH!! Trump has had it now. No way to overcome this.
Neilsen’s a Gen Kelly intimate and plant.
This tool is nothing more than Nielsen wannabe kiss up.
The Deep Swamp was deeper than we thought.
Put him under OATH and see what he has to say...he better be able to prove his comments...
smh yep...POLITICS IS DIRTY BUSINESS...
Who?
Their president Carl Gershman got an award from the Atlantic Council. Board includes Victoria Nuland, Tim Kaine, Karen Bass, etc. alongside a few token Republicans like Andy Card, Ben Sasse, Mel Martinez. . .a poor man's CFR: National Endowment for Democracy: Board of Directors
How dare a President use his office for political purposes. LOL.
Please allow me a WGAF reaction. Thank you.
Yeah ... a “Senior” official no one has ever heard of ... try “Career Deep State Leech” who managed to attach himself to the new administration ... til he was “found out” ...
17 Aug: Heavy: Miles Taylor: Former DHS Official Endorses Biden, Calls Trump White House ‘Terrifying’
by Eric Hawkins
Taylor is currently on leave from a cybersecurity position at GOOGLE...
https://heavy.com/news/2020/08/miles-taylor/
LOL. thou must only employ Democrats!
20 Nov 2019: CNBC: House Democrats slam Google CEO for hiring ex-Trump administration official who worked on immigration issues
by Lauren Feiner, Jennifer Elias
Democratic congressional leaders from the Hispanic, Black and Asian Pacific American caucuses scolded Google CEO Sundar Pichai for the recent hiring of a former Trump administration official who had supported the Muslim ban.
In a letter dated Nov. 19, the lawmakers expressed concern over Google’s hiring of Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff for Kirstjen Nielsen, the former secretary of Homeland Security. Taylor joined Google recently to work on government affairs and national security issues.
“We are deeply troubled with Google’s decision to hire someone from the Trump Administration that has defended the very same cruel DHS policies Google senior leadership has previously denounced,” the letter said. It was signed by Joaquin Castro, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, as well as Karen Bass, head of the Congressional Black Caucus, and Judy Chu, chair of the Asian Pacific American Caucus...
The letter comes as Google faces increased scrutiny by lawmakers, regulators and among its own employees for business practices, government contracts and controversial decisions made by leadership. In August, more than 1,000 Google employees signed a petition, demanding Google abandon bids or potential bids with U.S. Customs and Border Protection contract.
Employees also expressed concern about Taylor at recent all-hands meetings, where executives defended his hiring and downplayed his involvement in DHS policies.
In response to a request for comment, a Google spokesperson pointed to comments made a few weeks ago by Karan Bhatia, vice president for government affairs, explaining that Taylor’s expertise is in counterterrorism and national security, and that he will not be involved in immigration issues.
The letter from House leaders berated Pichai and Google co-founder Sergey Brin, citing reports from The Washington Post and Buzzfeed about Taylor’s role in the Trump administration.
“This recent company hire appears to contradict Google’s own moral and ethical values and completely disregards the concerns expressed by many of your employees and customers that value immigrants and human rights,” the letter said...
Google is not alone among tech companies in employing former conservative administration officials. Facebook hired former George W. Bush aide Joel Kaplan in 2011, which The Wall Street Journal reported was part of a larger effort to bring more diverse viewpoints into its executive ranks...
House members wrote in the letter to Pichai that, “We find it alarming when companies choose to reward and hire individuals that have played active roles in implementing cruel policies that target and hurt the communities we represent and Google is no exception.”...
Several Democratic lawmakers wrote to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos last year, expressing concern about reports that the company was promoting its facial recognition technology to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/20/house-leaders-slam-google-for-hiring-miles-taylor-who-worked-for-trump.html
“Senior”? Is the guy old or something?
Here’s Taylor’s Washington Post hitpiece to go with his Biden endorsement. I looked for substantial criticisms and found nothing difficult to refute. It boils down to Taylor and Nielsen didn’t like Trump’s management style or immigration policy because he didn’t agree with their priorities and didn’t delegate decision-making to them. Taylor also swallows the Russiagate hoax uncritically and sides with Bolton’s foreign policy.
President Trump in the Oval Office on July 20.
President Trump in the Oval Office on July 20. (Leah Millis/Reuters)
Opinion by Miles Taylor
August 17, 2020 at 2:05 PM 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 Security’s leadership during the Trump administration, I can attest that the country is less secure as a direct result of the president’s actions.
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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 wasn’t 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 nation’s 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 on several times.
Trump’s indiscipline was also a constant source of frustration. One day in February 2019, when congressional leaders were waiting for an answer from the White House on a pending deal to avoid a second government shutdown, the president demanded a DHS phone briefing to discuss the color of the wall. He was particularly interested in the merits of using spray paint and how the steel structure should be coated. Episodes like this occurred almost weekly.
The decision-making process was itself broken: Trump would abruptly endorse policy proposals with little or no consideration, by him or his advisers, of possible knock-on effects. That was the case in 2018 when then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced, at the White House’s urging, a “zero tolerance” policy to prosecute anyone who crossed the border illegally. The agencies involved were unprepared to implement the policy, causing a disastrous backlog of detentions that ultimately left migrant parents and their children separated.
Incredibly, after this ill-conceived operation was rightly halted, in the following months the president repeatedly exhorted DHS officials to restart it and to implement a more deliberate policy of pulling migrant families apart en masse, so that adults would be deterred from coming to the border for fear of losing their children. The president was visibly furious on multiple occasions when my boss, then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, refused.
Top DHS officials were regularly diverted from dealing with genuine security threats by the chore of responding to these inappropriate and often absurd executive requests, at all hours of the day and night. One morning it might be a demand to shut off congressionally appropriated funds to a foreign ally that had angered him, and that evening it might be a request to sharpen the spikes atop the border wall so they’d be more damaging to human flesh (“How much would that cost us?”). Meanwhile, Trump showed vanishingly little interest in subjects of vital national security interest, including cybersecurity, domestic terrorism and malicious foreign interference in U.S. affairs.
How can you run a huge organization under those conditions? You can’t. At DHS, daily management of its 250,000 employees suffered because of these frequent follies, putting the safety of Americans at risk.
The president has similarly undermined U.S. security abroad. His own former national security adviser John Bolton made the case so convincingly with his recent book and public accounts that there is little to add, other than to say that Bolton got it right. Because the commander in chief has diminished America’s influence overseas, today the nation has fewer friends and stronger enemies than when Trump took office.
Trump has also damaged the country in countless ways that don’t directly involve national security but, by stoking hatred and division, make Americans profoundly less safe.
The president’s bungled response to the coronavirus pandemic is the ultimate example. In his cavalier disregard for the seriousness of the threat, Trump failed to make effective use of the federal crisis response system painstakingly built after 9/11. Years of DHS planning for a pandemic threat have been largely wasted. Meanwhile, more than 165,000 Americans have died.
It is more than a little ironic that Trump is campaigning for a second term as a law-and-order president. His first term has been dangerously chaotic. Four more years of this are unthinkable.
He’s so prominent you have never heard of him.
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