Miles Taylor

Miles Taylor

@milestaylor.bsky.social

Ex nat’l security official. NYT bestselling author. Was “Anonymous” — now encouraging people to take their masks off. Also, aspiring Ghostbuster. Speaking out daily @ www.DEFIANCE.News

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It’s so much worse than you think. Ex-DOJ official Liz Oyer: “The Justice Department has been totally captured by the president.” CORRUPTIONLAND is released tomorrow @ corruptionland.org. Next week, Americans can do something about it.

Jesus was mentioned 1,000 times in the bible. Donald Trump is mentioned 38,000 times in the Epstein Files. He’s more than just a “background character.”

At our press conference with Epstein survivors, Robert De Niro pointed that Trump is a MAIN CHARACTER in the files. And polls show it’ll haunt him all the way to the ballot box.

Donald Trump set another record. There’s NEVER been an election (since polling began in the United States) where voters said “corruption” was their top worry. Until now.

2019: Trump was impeached for withholding Ukraine's aid for a political favor. 2026: Trump may have colluded with Russia to drop Ukraine’s air defenses, all to lower gas prices before a midterm. Both started with a phone call from Trump. Feels like Congress should investigate.

Trump’s ex-chief of staff John Kelly said this to me, six years ago: “I don't know how he’s not in an institution somewhere, whether it’s jail or a nuthouse. He’s a seriously sick guy. I never heard him saying anything that wasn’t a lie.” Trump has only gotten worse since.

John Kelly added: “Nothing would please me more than if he chained himself to the Resolute desk, and they have to go in and cut the chains and carry him away in a straitjacket.” Again, that was 2020. Trump is even more deranged today. My thoughts: inews.co.uk/news/world/t...

inews.co.ukTrump is showing signs of despair. I've personally seen what comes nextMiles Taylor: Billionaires and smear merchants are pitching in to help Donald Trump salvage this election

I spent my career helping to build DHS during the Bush, Obama, and Trump years. We must abolish ICE. It’s lost all public trust. It must be eliminated. We can never again allow an agency to become the president’s “secret police.”

Not-fun fact: Trump decimated the DHS office that protects the U.S. from bio threats, like Russia's plague incident. Hundreds of staff from the "Office of Countering WMD" have been pushed out, fired, or reassigned in Trump 2.0. He's playing roulette with our lives.

Fun fact: the U.S. House can sue a sitting president with a simple majority vote. If the Democrats retake the chamber, they should do more than just "investigate" Trump's corruption. They should sue him in federal court for the illegal ballroom, Qatari jet, and more.

The outlets Trump just banned from the White House… Exposed damning details about his coverup of the Epstein files (CNN) Exposed his use of FBI & Secret Service to spy on critics (MSNOW) Exposed his illegal detention of thousands (Politico) This is full-blown censorship.

The entire White House press pool should protest Trump’s decision to kick out certain reporters by refusing — in solidarity — to leave the building tonight. It’s the People’s house, not his. We have a right to know what’s going on there.

Trump just said he's kicking CNN, MSNOW, and Politico out of the White House. I was there the day he ejected CNN's Jim Acosta in 2018... Trump's staff gloated... then I watched a federal judge body slam the WH and order Jim's pass restored. The First Amendment will prevail.

I cornered GOP Chairman James Comer on Capitol Hill. He told me he's "very concerned" about Trump's son taking wedding money from a Russian oligarch. Even Trump's own congressional leaders can't defend this stuff anymore.

Took this photo yesterday. The man who put up the scaffolding is closing the building because he can’t keep his name on it. I learned in the first administration: Donald Trump is as just petty as he is corrupt.

Just met a three-time Trump voter outside the White House. Successful businessman from Texas. Eying the construction of the ballroom: “I just can’t do it anymore. I just can’t. The corruption. It’s gross.” Trump is losing his base.

We built a sprawling machine to protect Americans after 9/11. I gave most of my life and career to that effort. Today, we have a president who has turned that machine against us.

Trump is threatening to starve poor children if state employees don’t participate in his mass deportation campaign. So if DMV employees, teachers, and nurses don’t become snitches, the kids don’t eat? This is sick shit, even for him. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/02/d...

cnbc.comStates now must report undocumented immigrants to DHS or risk federal funding, DOJ saysThe new DOJ opinion relates to funding states get for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Supplemental Security Income programs.

The Supreme Court's decision to let Trump build his ballroom is worse than you think. They've opened the door to new kinds of presidential lawbreaking. Trump's own lawyers say he can bulldoze the Statue of Liberty if he wants. We have a high court of cowards.

NEW — The GOP is making their midterm convention entirely about Trump, calling it “Trump-a-palooza.” So we’re parking all 3.5 million Epstein files outside of the event so folks don’t forget who he really is. They want confetti. We’re bringing the paper.

To prosecute Trump, Democrats should make Pete Buttigieg the next Speaker of the House. Nothing in the Constitution requires the Speaker to be an elected member of Congress. If Democrats take back control, they should bring a bulldog into the job.

Trump is re-labeling whole swaths of the U.S. border “defense areas” so that the military can take over. When I was at DHS, our lawyers would’ve called this “stupid” and “illegal” and “dystopian.” Because it is.

“While the military is generally prohibited from enforcing laws on domestic soil under the longstanding Posse Comitatus Act, the zones have allowed soldiers to detain migrants accused of entering the national defense areas.” www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

cbsnews.comJustice Department expands military's power to detain migrants accused of trespassingThe Justice Department issued a legal opinion giving the U.S. military broader powers to detain migrants near certain areas along the southern border.

NEW: Files reveal DHS opened a “terror” probe to spy on Minnesotans protesting ICE, per NYT. What did such suspected “terrorists” do? Some banged pots and pans at hotels where ICE agents slept. The free-speech crackdown has reached peak absurdity. www.defiance.news/p/activists-...

defiance.newsActivists used pots and pans to protest ICE. They were investigated for terrorism.The Trump administration reportedly spied on left-leaning groups during immigration protests in Minnesota.

Trump might send ballot-snatchers into these 13 states. Each refused to hand over their voter rolls AND each is a battleground that could decide Congress. They should be ready to stop him.

Donald Trump wants 'fighting communism' to be the GOP's midterms theme. The man is seizing the central bank, nationalizing industry, and printing money with his face on it. I worked for him. The guy IS the communist threat.

Todd Blanche is about to have a bad week. If he loses Thursday’s vote, the humiliation will be historic. If he wins, it’s worse… the job he wants — “yes-man” to a law-breaking Trump — could one day land him in prison. More here: bit.ly/4yNvmOZ

By threatening the midterms, surveys show Trump has inspired unprecedented energy among Democrats. It’s also sent a message to MAGA voters: “You can skip the polls.” Great work, Mr. President. You're beating yourself... again. www.defiance.news/p/data-shows...

defiance.newsData shows Trump is inspiring Democrats to vote — and Republicans to stay home.The president's voter suppression campaign is poised to backfire by mobilizing the political opposition, while depressing MAGA voter turnout.

In the first term, it was humiliating to see foreign leaders play Trump like a fiddle (using flattery). But the bigger problem was taunts. He was so easily provoked. Iran watched & learned. Now they're goading Trump into a forever war… to our peril. bit.ly/4fpVfeH

Trump has gutted the FBI’s election protection task force, DHS election teams, ODNI cells, and the EAC. If he’s so concerned about the security of our elections… …why is he systematically dismantling the tools to protect them? 🤔

WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt: what's revealed tonight "will shock you if you have an honest eye listening to the president." Yes, and if your ears watch closely, you'll be doubly stunned.

When I was in first administration, Trump wanted to “wiretap” White House aides because people were talking behind his back. Now they’re actually seizing the phones of White House staff. The dictator is getting nervous, folks.

In 2020, Trump manufactured the Big Lie, but he could never find the actual "thief" who stole the election. So this Thursday, he's going to invent one. Get ready for the "Bigger Lie" (which will make him look even more desperate than before). www.defiance.news/p/i-helped-o...

defiance.newsI helped oversee election security for Trump. He's about to swap the "Big Lie" for a Bigger Lie.The president will reportedly begin releasing cherry-picked intelligence from 2020 to make it look like a foreign country helped Joe Biden win. The claims are categorically false.

Trump ordered the FBI to find out who leaked the truth about his Qatari jet. Within 24 hours, his own leak investigation leaked. You can’t write a better metaphor for this administration. Too corrupt to hide it & too incompetent to cover it up. www.defiance.news/p/trump-open...

defiance.newsTrump opened an investigation into reporters. Then his own "leak" probe leaked.Try as he might, Donald Trump's unprecedented attacks on the First Amendment are being met with unprecedented pushback.