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Miles Taylor

@milestaylor.bsky.social

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Ex nat’l security official. NYT bestselling author. Was “Anonymous” — now encouraging people to take their masks off. Also, aspiring Ghostbuster. Speaking out daily @ treason.substack.com

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · Jun 3

Hannah & I are stunned by the outpouring of support.

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Thank you @wbaidlaw.bsky.social @markzaidesq.bsky.social @normeisen.bsky.social & many others for who’ve helped us fight back. Forever grateful.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 22h

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: The Pentagon is considering sending the elite military unit that invaded Iraq & Afghanistan into U.S. cities.

The 82nd Airborne Division.

Wake up, people. This not about petty theft and street crime.

www.treason.io/p/what-are-t...

What are they hiding? asks Pentagon reporter Barbara Starr

PLUS -- Trump's invasion of Illinois is (another) seminal moment.

www.treason.io

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 4d

A year ago, both Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly and his top military advisor Mark Milley warned America that Trump was a “fascist.”

As Milley said:

“He is the most dangerous person ever…he's a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country.”

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 6d

NEWS: Donald Trump made it easier to add Americans to the terrorist watchlist — including his enemies.

Amidst all the drama in DC, this is getting overlooked. But it might be the most Orwellian thing he’s done yet.

www.treason.io/p/must-read-...

MUST READ: The president made it easier to add you to the terrorist watchlist.

I helped lead counterterrorism in the first Trump administration. You need to know what just happened.

www.treason.io

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 7d

Trump told military leaders today that US cities would become “training grounds.”

Do you understand it yet, America? This IS the talk of a dictator.

I’m not afraid to say that word. I’m afraid that my former party is going along with it.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 8d

Trump once offered to pardon us if we broke the law for him.

Now he’s investigating some of us for calling out his law-breaking.

If that doesn’t show you his priorities, then I don’t know what does.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 9d

Trump’s DOJ says James Comey allowed leaks to the press about an FBI investigation. So they charged him.

Now THEY are leaking details to the press about their own investigation… into James Comey.

You can’t make this up.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 11d

James Comey got indicted. But the real criminal conduct happened in the White House.

Donald Trump appears to be clinically addicted to impeachable offenses.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 12d

“The only moments in our lives that count for anything are those when we do the right thing — when we don’t have to look down at the table but can raise our heads and look each other in the eye. Nothing else matters.” —Russian dissident Alexei Navalny

www.treason.io/p/read-why-a...

READ: Why are you staring at the table?

A dead Russian dissident has words for all of us, on the eve of Trump charging his critics with crimes.

www.treason.io

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 13d

MSNBC: ex-FBI Dir. James Comey expected to be charged with a crime by Trump administration, per reporting from @DilanianMSNBC and @CarolLeonnig.

This is a huge deal. Trump demanded DOJ charge Comey with something to get revenge. Now they are.

The rule of law is dead.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 13d

CHATTER: Last night on Fox, Sen. Lindsey Graham teased the idea (again) of Trump running for a third term.

You’re a fool if you believe “It’s just a joke!”

Trump wants to remain in power. And he will try. Time to start talking about that.

www.treason.io/p/news-trump...

NEWS: Trump “third term” chatter grows. Take it seriously.

The president’s allies continue to tease that he’ll be on the ballot in 2028.

www.treason.io

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 14d

The gutting of DOJ’s anti-corruption office would make Richard Nixon proud. No need for such an office when you know all of your enemies are already guilty — and all of your allies are innocent. www.notus.org/courts/doj-p...

The Justice Department Had 36 Lawyers Fighting Corruption Full-Time. Under Trump, It’s Down to Two.

The Public Integrity Section is the latest casualty in the administration’s attacks on Nixon-era good-government reforms.

www.notus.org

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 14d

NEWS: DOJ had 36 lawyers focused on investigating corrupt public officials. Under Trump, they’ve slashed it down to just TWO lawyers.

I’m not surprised that Trump would shut down an office with a name like “Public Integrity Section.”

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 15d

BREAKING: Trump signs executive order designating antifa as a “domestic terrorist org.”

Not good. I was part of convos like this in Trump 1.0. He’ll use this as the justification to go after “Dems” as “terrorists.”

Here’s what happens next:

www.treason.io/p/read-trump...

READ: Trump wants to label Dems as “terrorists.” Here’s what happens next.

After helping lead DHS under Trump, I know how dark this can get.

www.treason.io

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 15d

This weekend, the president directed DOJ to accelerate the persecution of his critics. I’m on his enemies list, but I’m unfazed. Whatever happens, I have the same plan. And I can sum it up for you in one word: defiance.

www.treason.io/p/read-trump...

READ: Trump is coming after me. I have a one-word plan.

As the president ramps up pressure on DOJ to persecute his enemies, I have advice for others in the crosshairs.

www.treason.io

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 19d

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CANCELLED: Trump revives cancel culture to cancel guy who called him a canceller.

PLUS — Here’s what the other late-night comedy hosts should do about it.

open.substack.com

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 19d

Trump decried “cancel culture.” Now he’s using his power to enforce it.

He said he was a “peacemaker.” Now he uses a “War Dept” against Americans.

He railed against the “deep state.” Now he’s building one, full of loyalists.

Honestly, the hypocrisy is impressive.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 20d

I’ve met a lot of foreign visitors this year. Their comments worry me. From fear their phones will be seized at airports, to midnight deportations, to secret surveillance, they talk about us like the Soviet Union. We should listen.

www.treason.io/p/read-this-...

READ: “This country isn’t the same,” say foreign visitors.

Friends and allies see America’s rapid decline. Will we?

www.treason.io

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 21d

Trump crossed a red line. He announced plans to designate U.S. groups as terrorist organizations. I know what he’s really trying to do.

www.treason.io/p/read-trump...

READ: Trump wants to label Dems as “terrorists.” Here’s what happens next.

After helping lead DHS under Trump, I know how dark this can get.

www.treason.io

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 22d

BREAKING: Trump says the US military killed 3 people in another deadly strike against "narcoterrorists" in international waters, per CNN

Dope smugglers are criminals. But you arrest them. You don’t blow them up. We’re entering war-crime territory here.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 22d

NEWS: After the silencing of a top conservative, Trump & the GOP geared up over the wknd for a crackdown on liberal voices, vowing lifetime internet bans, firings, and even travel blacklists.

The irony is scary. The implications are scarier.

www.treason.io/p/news-civil...

NEWS: Civil war? No. But the censorship war has begun.

Trump allies wield power to shut down Charlie Kirk critics.

www.treason.io

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 25d

Democracy around the world has also weakened, with most countries declining in their performance while freedom of the press suffered its most far-reaching fall in a half century, according to the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 25d

NEWS: Press freedom worldwide has hit a 50-year low because of government crackdowns on news orgs, political violence, and the surge of social-media-fueled disinformation, according to a new report.

Here at home, the First Amendment is also in mortal danger.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 26d

We owe it to the memory of the 9/11 fallen to confront a bitter truth. The great threat to freedom is no longer from foreign terrorists but from fellow Americans hellbent on silencing neighbors, whether through political coercion or acts of political violence.

www.treason.io/p/read-the-r...

READ: The ritual of remembrance is different this year. Here's why.

A quarter-century after 9/11, the threat is coming from within.

www.treason.io

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 28d

BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Trump temporarily withhold $4 billion in Congressionally-approved foreign aid.

This is pretty bad.

White House will see this as permission slip to ignore Congress & spend money however Trump wants.

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