On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump will deliver a prime-time address in which he’s expected to push his thoroughly debunked 2020 election denial lies. According to one former Trump official, however, Trump’s claims are not only nonsense, but his national address will backfire when the president comes off as a “sore loser.”
This is according to security expert Miles Taylor, who served under President George W. Bush then in the Department of Homeland Security during Trump’s first term, famously leaking about the latter administration in an anonymously written New York Times piece entitled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.” Taylor appeared on MSNOW Thursday morning to provide his thoughts on Trump’s pending address.
According to Taylor, the address will likely serve up “bad leftovers” of Trump’s typical election conspiracy theories, like that China interfered in the 2020 election.
“Here's the thing,” said Taylor. “They did. We already know about that. We also know that the Iranians tried to interfere, and the Russians tried to interfere. We know that because the American intelligence community, five years ago, declassified a report that said, here are all the foreign threat actors that tried to muck around in the 2020 election. What was really important is that the intelligence community said none of them managed to access sensitive systems. They didn't change votes. They may have tried to muck around. They may have used social media....
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