CNN saying Miles Taylor is Anonymous

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

[sunonmars]

1. Yawn

[Nevilledog]

2. No shit. He's already been out talking for awhile

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Meh!

[EarlG]

4. Well, I hope he wasn't expecting this to be a bombshell

Because... *sound of deflating balloon*

[Nevilledog]

6. This was the worst surprise party ever.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. If true, he's a patriot.

The guy put the country — the People and Constitution— first.

[TeamPooka]

12. Thanks Miles. :)

[Kid Berwyn]

27. Hahahahaha!!!

Glad you didn’t say Kelly Ann!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

37. Just as I suspected: Miles Taylor is really Kellyanne!

I don't think I've ever seen Miles Taylor and Kellyanne together. Like Clark Kent and Superman.

I think QAnon would like to hear this theory!

[Kid Berwyn]

42. What 'Brad' stand for?

Bernard.

Oh, gosh! You George Bernard Shaw, famous author and literary smart guy.

...

Writer responsible for all problems he create.

(Not to be torturing me!)

[WhiskeyGrinder]

26. Taylor shaped the administration's narrative around permanent family separation as "protecting

children." He can fucking rot.

[Kid Berwyn]

29. Thank you for the reminder.

That changes my opinion of the guy. He is a child abuser.

Still wish all in government would resist Drumpf.

[Harker]

7. Can't be named and anonymous simultaneously. n/t

[OnDoutside]

11. The Anti-Trumper formerly known as Anonymous ?

[Harker]

18. There you go. Need a symbol.

I can't believe I heard the name Kellyanne Conway suggested for this "true patriot."

[OnDoutside]

23. Yeah, that was a bit too far alright.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Good deal. Speaking out before election! Except so many

have already voted

[Arazi]

20. He's been speaking out for months already

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. Yes, understand. But maybe he'll say more now that he's uncovered?

George Conway seems to think so.
Sure, it's not as exciting as a big name player, but any bad news on trump can be good if we embrace and don't say it's a nothing burger like trump will say? Just my take.

[FreeState]

9. Hes confirmed it on his twitter (link to his statement)

Link to tweet

Donald Trump is a man without character. It’s why I wrote “A Warning”...and it’s why me & my colleagues have spoken out against him (in our own names) for months. It’s time for everyone to step out of the shadows. My statement:

https://milestaylor.medium.com/a-statement-a13bc5173ee9

[Binkie The Clown]

10. Wow, it turns out somebody whose identity I didn't know is somebody that I still don't know. nt

[lagomorph777]

16. Exactly!

[Crunchy Frog]

30. I've been watching him since he "came out".

He's been in a position to witness things that the rest of us can only imagine.

I've learned quite a few details from him that I definitely wouldn't have known otherwise, including some really terrifying things.

I've found him to be well worth listening to.

[lagomorph777]

13. Who? That's a pretty anonymous name.

[durablend]

14. Who ?!?!?

[PatSeg]

15. Okay, I just got a NYT's alert

Miles Taylor claims he IS anonymous!

[PatSeg]

19. Miles Taylor, a Former Homeland Security Official, Reveals He Was 'Anonymous'

WASHINGTON — Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, was the anonymous author of The New York Times Op-Ed article in 2018 whose description of President Trump as “impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective” roiled Washington and set off a hunt for his identity, Mr. Taylor confirmed Wednesday.

Mr. Taylor was also the anonymous author of “A Warning,” a book he wrote the following year that described the president as an “undisciplined” and “amoral” leader whose abuse of power threatened the foundations of American democracy. He acknowledged that he was the author of both the book and the opinion article in an interview and in a three-page statement he intended to post online.

Mr. Taylor resigned from the Department of Homeland Security in June 2019, and went public with his criticism of Mr. Trump this past summer. He released a video just before the start of the Republican National Convention declaring that the president was unfit for office and endorsed Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/us/politics/miles-taylor-anonymous-trump.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20201028&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta&regi_id=144275770&segment_id=42633&user_id=9300c9e86795a856411ac8bf084cff8b

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. Btw. If WE act like it's no big deal....they will too.

[Amishman]

24. It still eats a day's worth of headlines

and Trump desperately needs favorable press as the gap is staying remarkably steady otherwise

[Laura PourMeADrink]

33. +1. Although his approval inexplicably ticked up today

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. Yeah, he's Anonymous, and I am Spartacus.

I think we'll hear from many Anonymi (what's the plural of Anonymous?) .

[tblue37]

31. Anonymice?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

34. I like it. And, ok, maybe Miles Taylor IS Anonymous. And, I'm not really Spartacus.

But, who's Miles Taylor?

I guess we'll find out in subsequent news articles.

[tblue37]

35. He's been bashing Trump since resigning last from Homeland Security.

[cry baby]

22. At least he finally quit and spoke out.

He could have plugged his article right away, but didn’t.

[stopdiggin]

25. IMO -- this is probably worth a few lines

of newsprint. Lot of people pretending that this was completely public knowledge. Disagree. Maybe not the biggest story of the week (especially this close ..), but it's not exactly a nothing-burger either.

[moondust]

28. I can believe it.

He's been on CNN some since quitting and seems pretty competent.

How much damage did he do when he was there?

[Crunchy Frog]

32. He's been working very closely with the Lincoln Project.

There was at least one streaming conference they did where he went into some really hair raising details about things that he'd witnessed.

He strikes me as an upstanding guy.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

38. Taylor shaped the administration's narrative around permanent family separation as "protecting

children." In the "anonymous" op-ed, he wrote:

Don’t get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more. But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.

Which I'm sure is something the Lincoln Project can get behind! He can fucking rot.

[Crunchy Frog]

39. Okay. I'm stressed and don't need the aggravation

that some posters bring to the board, so I'm making generous use of the Ignore function.

See you on the other side.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

40. Sorry to add to your stress, and I hope you find some peace.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

44. You are very right,!

[superpatriotman]

41. I appreciate this quote:

"...there is no better screen test for truth than to see it audition next to delusion."

[Laura PourMeADrink]

43. Hope you caught him on Cuomo. Cuomo was a dick to him but

He was tremendously articulate and 100% believable and responsible.

Amazing how Cuomo reads the tea leaves of progressive viewpoints and reacts vs. thinking what is right vs. wrong from his heart.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

45. I heard a radio interview of him weeks ago...

... and the stuff he shared about Trump managed to shock me somewhat. (Or maybe it was a podcast?)

Trump wanted cost estimates to put a channel of water along the length of a wall across the Mexican border, and to fill it with alligators and snakes!

It instantly reminded me of an old Pink Panther cartoon, with a large shark living in the moat around a castle. Maybe Trump saw that years ago too, but HE thought that sort of thing really happened?