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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 · 17m

John Bolton was indicted because Donald Trump wanted him charged with a crime.

THAT is the crime.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 8h

Trump & JD Vance are grooming young men to be little creeps.

The leaked GOP texts read like a digital frat basement dripping with the dance-party sweat of insecurity & cruelty.

By making excuses for these folks, they’re ushering in an age of revenge-porn politics.

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

READ: Are Republicans grooming young men to be creeps?

Leaked GOP text messages reveal how next-gen conservatives are being mentored into little monsters.

www.treason.io

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The Weeknight on MSNBC @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social · 1d

“Splinter inside their consciousness”: Former DHS Chief of Staff @milestaylor.bsky.social slams GOP hypocrisy, saying the party that once opposed government overreach now works to silence dissent and control the narrative.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: GOP leaders equate NO KINGS protesters with “terrorists”

First they called critics “traitors.” Then they called journalists “enemies.” Now they’re calling protesters “terrorists.”

You see the pattern, right?

www.treason.io/p/news-gop-l...

NEWS: GOP leaders equate No Kings protesters with "terrorists"

Any regime that calls dissent “terrorism” deserves to be protested twice as loud.

www.treason.io

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 2d

INCORRECT HEADLINE: Reporters refuse to sign Pentagon’s new press rules

CORRECT HEADLINE: Pentagon launches sweeping effort to censor the news, kicks out major media outlets

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: Trump is inching closer to illegally invoking the Insurrection Act.

If ever there was a moment for America’s governors — especially in Blue States — to hold an emergency summit, it’s now.

The federal government is plotting invasions of their states.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 7d

Here you go. I made it easier to understand what’s happening.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 10d

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 · 13d

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 · 15d

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 · 16d

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 · 17d

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 · 18d

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 · 20d

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 · 21d

“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 · 22d

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 · 22d

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 · 23d

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 · 23d

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 · 23d

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 · 24d

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 · 28d

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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 · 28d

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 · 29d

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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