President Donald Trump reacted furiously to the announcement by former Whitehouse employee Miles Taylor that he was the author of an anonymous New York Times op-ed about an internal “resistance” to Trump within the administration, with the president calling for him to be prosecuted and disparaging details of his career despite claiming minutes earlier to have “never heard of” him.
Trump took aim at Taylor during a campaign rally in Goodyear, Ariz., referring to him as a “low-level staffer, a sleazebag, who’s never worked in the White House.” Taylor revealed his identity as “Anonymous” in a blog post on Wednesday afternoon.
Trump again blasted Taylor on Thursday at a rally in Florida, where the president said “He should be prosecuted. Are you listening to me back in Washington? He should be prosecuted — along with the New York Times.”
Meanwhile, CNN host Chris Cuomo on Wednesday night blasted newly-revealed ‘Anonymous’ author Miles Taylor for lying about his true identity during an August interview with Anderson Cooper, asking the network contributor, ‘Why should CNN keep you on the payroll?’
The tense exchange came as part of Taylor’s first interview since he outed himself earlier Wednesday as the unnamed author of a bombshell 2018 New York Times article that chronicled a ‘resistance’ within the Trump administration.
‘You lied to us, Miles,’ Cuomo told the former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff. ‘You were asked in August if you were “anonymous” here on CNN with Anderson Cooper, and you said ‘no.’
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The hubris of miles to compare himself to the founding fathers…
Throw him in jail!
How much you want to be that Cuomo and Taylor practice this interview before going on air. Cuomo look so angry… yea… right!!! FAKE NEWS CNN!!!!!!!!!!!
Prosecuted for what? What law did he break?
the president calling for him to be prosecuted and disparaging details of his career despite claiming minutes earlier to have “never heard of” him.
What is this “despite”? Where is the contradiction. I’m quite sure Trump had never heard of him until that day when his identity was reported. Far from being a White House insider, nobody in the White House had heard of him. But it’s hardly surprising that by the time Trump spoke at the rally he had found out exactly who this joker was and what he had done while in government (not White House) employment.
The bottom line is that the whole story that was hyped so much was a hoax, and the New York Times knew that. It was fake news of the first order, and they deliberately promoted it and fooled people into believing this guy’s lies, because after all he was supposedly a first-hand witness.