In a stunning abuse of executive power, President Donald Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum only three months after he took office directing the power of the full weight of the federal government to investigate Miles Taylor for espionage and treason – the first time in U.S. history that a president has invoked investigative powers against a named private citizen. Taylor’s ‘treason’ was speaking out against President Trump’s dangerous and reckless national security posture during the first Trump Administration.
Miles Taylor, who served as Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security during Trump’s first administration, initially blew the whistle in a 2018 anonymous New York Times op-ed where he assured the public that he and others were leading a resistance against the President from within the Trump administration. He later came forward publicly, becoming a prominent internal critic of Trump’s leadership and raising the alarm on the threat he posed to American democracy. Now, Trump is retaliating against him to silence dissent and truth. With the support of Whistleblower Aid’s legal defense fund EndPresidentialRevenge.org, Taylor has filed a constitutional challenge against Trump’s retaliatory Memorandum.
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