Ex-Trump official: Fox host was Trump’s shadow chief of staff

CNN's Anderson Cooper talks with Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security official in the Trump administration, about why he called Fox host Lou Dobbs Trump's "shadow chief of staff."

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  1. Yet half of Americans are still going to vote for him.

    As a foreigner watching, I recommend starting with your education system.

    1. @VICTOR LANGFORD Yes, and still buy into the lies of liberals.

      Right behind the liberal offering of “fair share” chants (that only they can determine what is fair), usually follows the liberals: “what about the children”…
      Their game book/pamphlet is pretty lame.

    2. @Qt Marcus ღ Good reply, these foreigners need to stay sucking on their Marxist government teat and tells us why they now have more Mosques then Post Offices.

    1. @Xela somar No one on earth had the experience to handle a pandemic. Trump shut down the US while Pelosi was in china town saying it was OK to be out with people. I don’t need the government to keep me from catching a cold. You need government to wipe you butt, blow your nose. For decades I’ve avoided people, washed my hands during flu season………

    2. @Xela somar It’s also perception. I dropped my daughter off at Reagan the other day and was going to go into DC a city I worked and partied in for years, but due to cops not doing their jobs to protect people, I didn’t drive in. I doubt I will ever visit DC, NYC, PHIL, CHICAGO again. DC used to get 5 million visitor per year. But with all the criminals running around who wants to go there. Dems are for chaos. The are against law and order and police protection.

    3. @Jeffrey Herring um Trump has 27 charges of child molestation. Biden has zero, just allegations. Trump pays off people

    1. At least bring him in after the election for trumps criminal trial. Every single true American MUST push that trump and his conspirators are tried after this

    2. @Jim Patriot of bless you, you are really grasping at straws… Chief of Staff…. I imagine you have not reached similar dizzying height in your career.

  2. No way this guy is lying: his answers are detailed and precise. Compare this to Trump and his sycophants response.

    1. @Bonnie Simpson “Facts” that can’t be used against him, since none of it is true. And he can say “my generals”, he’s commander and chief.

    2. @Jeremiah S How is none of this true? Just because your dear leader said so? I give up. Bless your heart. If you’re good with the way he treated McCain (who by the way i have nothing in common with politically but who was a true hero, something your sorry maggot could ever live up to) bounties on our military heads which he refuses to even address, pulling out our forces abandoning our allies which btw traumatized the troops all because he had a little hissy fit. I constantly struggle to understand what you people see in this guy. I want to understand so we can all come together but I’ve sadly come to the conclusion that if you still support this loser you’re one of three things. Total moron, complete racist or soulless billionaire. Check your bank account and see who you are. Btw it’s commander IN chief not and. Be well.

    3. @Jeremiah S You’re right. You could totally win and I’m fully aware. No way in hell he’d ever win the popular vote but between gerrymandering, shutting down the post office, electoral college, his Russian boyfriends help, yeah you could win. And it would be the absolute end of everything our country ever did or hoped to stand for. Nighty night racist and chief.

    4. @Bonnie Simpson Biden is set to lose in a landslide, and that’s because regardless of how you feel about Trump, Biden is far worse. Forty years of service, and nothing to show for it.

  3. If he’s telling the truth, and his body language is pretty much screaming that he is… then Donald Trump behaves exactly like I think he does. And, that’s scary as f*ck.

    1. I’m glad someone like him came forward. With some of the others (like Bolton or Cohen) you could reasonably question their character and reliability, but this guy just seems so collected, rational, coherent, and sincerely concerned.

    2. He is trying his darned best to stay calm. The holder of the highest executive office is running the most powerful country. 10+ trillion economy guided only by his mood and personally disorder.

  4. Americans should stop using the expression “The Leader of the Free World”, it is insulting and arrogant.

    1. @Apenzuur It is a lie that Americans keep telling themselves, and others. Its time for it to stop because it is misleading.

    2. @raindr0p Yeah but doesn’t he say that about literally everybody who’s left the White House on bad terms?

  5. I wondered how a guy who looks like he’s just a few years removed from college could rise to leading a 250,000 government agency … and then he starts speaking. Miles Taylor is an extremely impressive person.

    1. Venusva Thank you for vetting. Most people would not take him seriously and would dismiss him as

  6. When a President believes in conspiracy theories, he cannot govern effectively, because he is basing his actions on false data

    1. @John Roper considering the investigation was started on lies.. it’s quite possible these people are lying everyday about trump. These people are stupid. They mock you sheep daily and lie openly to you. When caught they simply move onto the next story. Amazing coopers mommy was CIA wasn’t she?

    2. Kamala Harris ( who’s ancestors were Slave Owners) Pranked Into Accepting Fake Dirt on Trump by Russians Posing as Greta Thunberg.

      Leaked audio of a phone call reveals that Sen. Kamala Harris reportedly was willing to accept dirt on President Donald Trump by infamous Russian pranksters Alexei Stolyarov and Vladimir Kuznetsov.

      The phone call was leaked to The U.S. Sun. The pranking duo, who go by the names “Vovan” and “Lexus,” posed as climate activist Greta Thunberg and her father, Svante Thunberg, and talked to Harris about Trump and the environment.

      The call r took place soon after Harris dropped out of the Democratic presidential primary race in December and begins with an enthusiastic “hello” to a caller she thought was the teenaged Thunberg.

      Go to The Sun US on YouTube to hear call.

    3. @raindr0p you literally only have to google his name to find a photo of both of then together in the oval office.

    4. @Sarah K Almost anyone has more information than Trump. Trump has access to more information, but he won’t read it, and his brain doesn’t retain what he is told unless he agrees with it. Despite having the best information network in the world, Trump is uneducated and stupid. That really shows how bad he is.

    1. @raindr0p Hasn’t Trump denied association with people before, only for it to come out that he was with them in a photo?

    1. He is the epitome of what Trump over country is.

      September 30, 2016 – Jane Doe vs Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. A lawsuit accusing

      Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein of child rape for events that occurred in 1994.

      *Dismissed under claims the plaintiff received death threats*

      – October 11 to 27, 2016 – Tasha Dixon, Mariah Billado, Rachel Crooks, Jessica Leeds,

      Mindy McGillivray, Jennifer Murphy, Natasha Stoynoff, Lisa Boyne, Kristin Anderson, Summer Zervos, Cathy Heller, Karen Virginia, Jessica Drake, Ninni Laaksonen all accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct.

      *Trumps sexual misconduct*

      – November 18, 2016 – One week after Trump’s election, 100 foreign diplomats gathered

      at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. to drink champagne and tour the building.

      *Possible violation of Emoluments Clause of the Constitution*

      – November 18, 2016 – Even though he said he would not settle the case, Donald Trump
      agreed to pay $25 million to settle his Trump University fraud lawsuits. The real estate seminar program was not an accredited university and used misleading marketing tactics to recruit students.

      – January 10, 2017 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Donald Trump approached him about

      leading an investigation into “Vaccine Safety.” The prospect that vaccination can lead to autism has been repeatedly debunked by long-running,peer-reviewed studies. Trump had supported the anti-vaccination theory on stage at the 2015 presidential debates.

      *Fueling anti-vaccers*

      – January 11, 2017 – Donald Trump’s lawyer Sheri Dillon stated that Trump would

      “voluntarily donate all profits from foreign government payments made to his hotel to the United States Treasury.” Two months into his presidency, no evidence existed that Trump had followed through with this promise.

      *Possible violation of Emoluments Clause of the Constitution*

      – January 22, 2017 – Donald Trump refused to release his tax returns. He is the first

      president in over 40 years to withhold his financial information from the American public. Senior counselor Kellyanne Conway explained “People didn’t care. They voted for him.”

      – January 24, 2017 – Donald Trump signed executive memos to advance construction of

      the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, both of which had been blocked by Barack Obama. The Dakota Access inspired fervent protests from Native Americans and environmentalists, who asserted the proposed pipeline would taint drinking water and threaten sacred worshipping grounds.

      *Trump is causing potential environmental catastrophies*

      – January 25, 2017 – After Donald Trump won the presidential election, his Palm Beach

      resort, Mar-a-Lago, doubled its initiation fee to $200,000.

      – February 1, 2017 In a rollback of an Obama-era protection, Donald Trump’s White

      House withdrew the Mercury Effluent Rule, which regulated the safe use and disposal of mercury in American dental offices. The Natural Resource Defense Council estimated the repeal would discharge five tons of the neurotoxic substance into water supplies each year. Even trace amounts of mercury can harm brain function and damage the human nervous system, particularly in pregnant women and infants.

      *Trump is causing potential environmental catastrophes*

      – February 1, 2017 – Trump and House Republicans rolled back an Obama-era regulation

      that required oil companies to provide purchasing information when buying minerals from foreign governments. Concerned that oil companies would purchase oil from corrupt and violent foreign administrations, the SEC had originally said Obama’s regulation would “combat government corruption through transparency and accountability.” The repeal had long been on the oil lobby’s wish list, and will save oil industry giants about half a billion dollars per year in compliance costs.

      *Trump is causing potential environmental catastrophies*

      – February 7, 2017 – In another rollback of Obama-era policies, the House voted to

      eliminate two regulations on American education: the Teacher-Preparation Rule, which ensured new teachers would enter classrooms fully qualified to teach; in addition to the School Accountability Act, which evaluated the quality of service American schools provided to their students and distributed funds accordingly. Civil rights advocates have explained that the latter rule was vital to providing education budget for low-income schools, and its removal could thereby harm funding for poorer areas of the country.

      *abandoning help for low income schools*

      – February 14, 2017 – The House Ways and Means Committee rejected a Democratic

      proposal requesting Donald Trump release his tax returns Under federal tax law, the chairman of the committee can request tax information from the treasury. Chairman of the committee, Republican Kevin Brady, declined to exercise that power in Trump’s case, citing invasion of taxpayers’ privacy rights.

      – February 16, 2017 – Staff at the United States Department of Agriculture were given

      a list of “blacklisted” terms which the agency would no longer use in their scientific research. The memo instructed scientists to replace “climate change” with “weather extremes,” and “reduce greenhouse gases” with “build soil organic matter, increase nutrient use efficiency.” Explaining the decision in an email, the Deputy Chief of Programs wrote, “It has become clear one of the previous administration’s priority is not consistent with that of the incoming administration. Namely, that priority is climate change. Please visit with your staff and make them aware of this shift in perspective within the executive branch.”

      *Climate change denials*

    2. – February 16, 2017 – Using the Congressional Review Act, Donald Trump repealed the

      so-called “stream protection rule,” which kept coal companies from dumping mining debris into rivers. Barack Obama first implemented the regulation after a growing body of evidence suggested the debris could contain toxic materials, such as selenium, mercury, and arsenic. Trump’s repeal has been on the wish list for the coal industry since the rule’s publication in December of 2016.

      *Trump gives benefits to coal companies while destroying the environment*

      – February 19, 2017 – The Trump administration asked the Council of Economic Advisers

      to predict a 3.5% surge in economic production over the next decade. Compared to the 1.8% projected by the Federal Reserve, this calculation could be dangerously optimistic. “The risk,” explained the president of the Committee Responsible for Federal Budget, “is that rosy economic scenarios allow us to borrow trillions of additional dollars in the next couple of years, doing real damage.”

      – February 20, 2017 – Donald Trump signed an executive order that instructed the

      Bureau of Land Management to lift a moratorium on new coal mining leases for federal land. A full 40 percent of the coal mined in America comes from federal property. In one such state-owned region, the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana, private companies produced coal that accounts for 10 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The Obama administration introduced the original moratorium on new mining leases to curb the environmental consequences of coal. Without renewal, the current leases would have allowed mining to continue as is for another 20 years; now, with Trump’s decision to permit renewed leases, that timeframe may extend much further into the future.

      *Trump gives benefits to coal companies while destroying the environment*

      – February 22, 2017 – The Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C. received an

      estimated $40,000-$60,000 for hosting an event held by the Embassy of Kuwait.

      *Possible violation of Emoluments Clause of the Constitution*

      – February 26, 2017 – The Trump Organization claimed it had made good on its promise

      to donate all profits earned from foreign governments to the U.S. Treasury. However, it provided no evidence of how much it donated or how that amount
      was calculated. Since his company has accepted payments from foreign governments,

      *Possible violation of Emoluments Clause of the Constitution*

      – February 27, 2017 – In his first budget proposal, Donald Trump boosted defense and

      security spending by $54 billion. He proposed slashing the budget for non-defense spending in areas like education, science, poverty programs, and environmental protection by almost the same amount.

      *Trumps boosts military and takes money out of education, science, poverty and

      environmental programs*

      – March 3, 2017 – The Trump administration proposed significant budget cuts to the

      National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Among the largest funding reductions were for the NOAA’s programs monitoring climate change’s progression. The biggest single budget cut was made to NOAA’s satellite division, which reports on the speed of
      climate change’s progression. The satellite program had drawn Republican criticism

      after publishing a study in Science magazine that contradicted a favorite argument of climate change deniers and concluded the pace of climate change was neither “pausing” nor slowing down. In Trump’s proposed budget, this satellite program would lose almost 40 percent of its funding.

      *Climate change denials and anti climate change legislation*

      – March 4, 2017 – In March of 2017, President Donald Trump engaged in a Twitter-based

      squabble with Arnold Schwarzenegger over ratings of “The Apprentice,” the television show—on which Trump was still listed as a producer. Trump tweeted, “Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t voluntarily leaving the Apprentice, he was fired by his bad (pathetic) ratings, not by me. Sad end to great show.” Schwarzenegger responded to Trump’s insult with a video on Twitter chiding Trump for defunding inner-city school programs. “When you take away after school programs for children and meals on wheels for the poor people,” said Schwarzenegger, “that’s not what you call ‘making America great again’.” Schwarzenegger then invited Trump to tour a middle with him to see the benefits of the after-school programs the president planned to eliminate. Trump did not respond.

      – March 10, 2017 – Donald Trump abruptly ordered 46 Obama-era prosecutors to tender

      their resignations. Among the dismissed prosecutors was Preet Bharara, an attorney renowned for his work uprooting government corruption. Bharara served as the U.S. attorney in New York City and, at the time of his removal, had jurisdiction over Trump Tower in New York. When he was fired, Bharara was reportedly building a case against Rupert Murdoch and Fox News executives for a variety of indiscretions related to violations of privacy.

      To say that Trump is for the country is just madness. Trump is for Trump and this is only in the first 3 months of his presidency. This has literally gone on for 4 years.

    3. What does the good-man means with “WAS”, Martha?
      He CERTAINLY meant to say Fox News is still The Don’s falsehoods-preaching Propaganda Base just as the Russian state’s “news” media is for Putin, and just as Leni Riefenstein was for Adolph.

      “Was” his fine, now outspoken butt. Burt even openly “was” is legal seen pretty worst enough for Fix News, just FYI #BLM. 😁😷😘😍

      Godless Best,
      A.E.
      Projectheureka LLC

  7. “”Why did you not attend John Lewis’ memorial?””John Lewis didn’t come to my inauguration.”

    1. So what was Obama’s excuse for not attending Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s memorial service?

    2. lincbond442 Barack and Michelle Obama went to the Supreme Court to pay their respects to Scalia while the justice was in repose in the Great Hall. Did Trump do something similar to a champion of civil rights? Nope.

  8. This is not some disgruntled ex-employee and doesn’t appear to have a personal grudge to settle. Here’s what Taylor himself said about why him and why now:
    “If I had come out and talked about Donald Trump a year ago, when I left the administration, he’s a master of distraction. He would have buried it within a day, and it wouldn’t have mattered to voters. But, right now, American voters are reviewing the president’s resume…so, I think there’s no more important time for me or other ex-Trump officials to come out and actually talk about what the experience was inside the administration and what kind of man sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.”

    1. What does the good-man means with “WAS”, Martha?
      He CERTAINLY meant to say Fox News is still The Don’s falsehoods-preaching Propaganda Base just as the Russian state’s “news” media is for Putin, and just as Leni Riefenstein was for Adolph.

      “Was” his fine, now outspoken butt. Burt even openly “was” is legal seen pretty worst enough for Fix News, just FYI #BLM. 😁😷😘😍

      Godless Best,
      A.E.
      Projectheureka LLC

  9. Very insightful interview into what goes on behind the scenes. Every American should listen to this interview. Thank you both!

  10. Well good luck, those who want him for another 4 years. When that happens, the problem isn’t Trump – it’s the Americans themselves.

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