Former Trump DHS Secretary Nielsen’s Chief of Staff Miles Taylor:
Miles Taylor, a former senior Trump administration official, endorsed Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on Monday, becoming one of the highest-ranking former Trump administration officials to do so. …
“Given what I have experienced in the administration, I have to support Joe Biden for president and even though I am not a Democrat, even though I disagree on key issues, I’m confident that Joe Biden will protect the country and I’m confident that he won’t make the same mistakes as this President.”
In the video, Taylor accuses Trump of directing FEMA to withhold disaster funding to California following devastating wildfires in that state because voters in that state had not voted for him for President.
“He told us to stop giving money to people whose houses had burned down from a wildfire because he was so rageful that people in the state of California didn’t support him and that politically it wasn’t a base for him,” Taylor says in the video. [CNN/Politics]
Meanwhile, far-right pundit Erick Erickson, in mail to unsubscribers on his mail list, teases for more money today:
Tomorrow, for everyone, I’ll explain what is really going on with the post office and why it is nothing to fret over. This is just a conspiracy theory loved by members of the media, so they’re treating it differently than QAnon even though it is no less nuts. If you get this, you’ll get that tomorrow. For the rest, you’ve got to click the subscribe button.
Nothing to fret over. Those weekly magazines of mine that aren’t showing up? Don’t sweat it. Meanwhile, someone with an inside view of the Administration is sounding all the alarm bells.
Erickson, for all of his claims that he’s not an apologist for the Administration, well, he is. And a bad one.
We’ve already seen a few high officials discrediting Trump, but I’m not sure I remember any of them explicitly endorsing Biden for President. Kudos to Mr. Taylor for – finally – getting up the gumption to do it. It’s the sort of thing a Responsible Republican should do.
And if this was strategically timed, all the more kudos.
