Miles Taylor on Resisting Donald Trump

Well, the first point would be um he is entirely indifferent to the rule of law. Uh genuinely. Uh Donald Trump does not care. He does not care about the United States Constitution, he does not care about the law. Uh he only cares to the extent that uh he continues to maintain support from his base.

Beyond that, he's indifferent to the law. And I've seen that time and time again over many years. And now the good fight. with Yasha Monk. My guest today is Miles Taylor, also known to the world as Anonymous.

Taylor was, among other positions, the chief of staff of the Department of Homeland Security during the first Trump administration, and in 2018 he published an op-ed in the New York Times under the name Anonymous, called, I am part of a resistance inside the Trump administration. We talked about the way in which the Trump administration is seeking revenge on its perceived political enemies by cancelling the security clearance and cancelling the security details, going after law firms and universities, and what that means for threats to democracy in the second Trump administration. We talked about why People like Taylor, who had from the beginning been privately skeptical of Trump, decided to go into the first Trump administration and the way that he thought about when he should disagree with the president privately or when he should defy orders that he regarded as illegal.

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