Former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor has become one of President Donald Trump's targets after spending the better part of five years speaking out. Now he's taking another big step. Taylor announced on MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace that he was founding his own club of anti-Tru...
  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    The ominous comment (I guess):

    Taylor said that he will never forget a meeting that he had with Stephen Miller not long before he left the administration.

    “We’re in his little, tiny second-floor, West Wing office and he points to a drawer and he said, ‘You know what’s in there, Miles?’ And I said, ‘What’s in there?’ He said, 'There’s a stack of executive orders that I’m going to issue in the second Trump administration. I’m going to issue, by the way,” Taylor recalled, pointing to Miller bragging he was the one in charge. “You read into that what you want.”

    But more importantly:

    He began by recalling Trump attacking him personally in April, and that he was flooded with many well-intentioned people who warned him to stay quiet and lie low. Taylor considered another option and started the pro-democracy coalition Defiance.org.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 days ago

      I think it’s very clearly ominous because STEPHEN MILLER is saying “I’M going to issue these orders”

      There’s no guessing, it’s patently obvious.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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        2 days ago

        I honestly don’t know what the power dynamics exactly are in this admin. It could be he’s just bragging, threatening, posturing. Maybe he just wrote them and thinks it’s a done deal when he puts them in front of Donny. Maybe Trump gives his willing executioners a lot of power, a lot of leeway. Or at least let’s them think so.

        But yeah, it is clear that Trump does not have ALL the power.