Ex-Homeland Security Official Outs Himself As ‘Anonymous’ Anti-Trump Author

Former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor, pictured in March 2018, publicly announced that he is behind the scathing anti-Trump op-ed and book published under the pen name “Anonymous.”

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Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, has revealed himself to be “Anonymous,” the author of a New York Times op-ed and book critical of the Trump presidency.

“To be clear, writing those works was not about eminence (they were published without attribution), not about money (I declined a hefty monetary advance and pledged to donate the bulk of the proceeds), and not about crafting a score-settling ‘tell all’ (my focus was on the President himself and his character, not denigrating former colleagues),” Taylor wrote in a Medium post.

“Nevertheless, I made clear I wasn’t afraid to criticize the President under my name.”