President Trump on Wednesday signed a pair of memorandums directing the Department of Justice to investigate two individuals who served in his first administration and pushed back against Trump.
Trump signed a memo targeting Miles Taylor, who served as a deputy chief of staff in the Department of Homeland Security during the first Trump administration. Taylor wrote a New York Times op-ed, and later a book, under the pseudonym “Anonymous” about how some officials were working to thwart Trump’s impulses.
White House staff secretary Will Scharf said the memo would strip any active security clearance for Taylor and would direct the Justice Department “to investigate his activities to see what else might come up in that context given his egregious behavior during your previous administration.”
Trump told reporters he had “no idea” who Taylor was, and compared him to a “traitor.”
“I think we have to do something about it. You can’t have that happen,” Trump said. “If that happens to other presidents, it wouldn’t be sustainable for other presidents. I seem to be able to sustain. But if that happened to other presidents, it’s just unfair.”
In addition to Taylor, Trump signed a memo going after Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Krebs in 2020 pushed back against Trump’s claims that the election had been fraudulent and was adamant that the nation’s elections were not compromised.
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Author: Faith Novak
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