Moira Warburton
August 17, 2020 / 5:30 PM
A former high-ranking Trump administration official said on Monday the
United States is “less secure” under the Republican president as he
endorsed Democratic challenger Joe Biden for November’s election.
Miles Taylor, who served at the Department of Homeland Security between 2017 and 2019, including as chief of staff, said he “witnessed the damning results firsthand” of what he called President Donald Trump’s “personal deficiencies.”
“I can attest that the country is less secure as a direct result of the president’s actions,” Taylor wrote in an op-ed published in the Washington Post on the day the Democrats kick off a four-day virtual convention to nominate Biden.
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Trump’s “inappropriate and often absurd executive requests” meant DHS staffers were regularly taken away from dealing with genuine security concerns, Taylor said in his op-ed.
“One morning it might be a demand to shut off congressionally appropriated funds to a foreign ally that had angered him, and that evening it might be a request to sharpen the spikes atop the border wall so they’d be more damaging to human flesh,” Taylor wrote.
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