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WALKAWAY: With blistering criticism, Trump's former Homeland Security chief of staff endorses Biden
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Miles Taylor, the former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff under President Trump, has endorsed Joe Biden for president.
"What we saw week in and week out, and for me after two and a half years in that administration, was terrifying. We would go in to try to talk to him about a pressing national security issue: A cyberattack, terrorism threat. He wasn't interested in those things," Taylor said.
"The president wanted to exploit the Department of Homeland Security for his own political purposes and to fuel his own agenda."
"A lot of times the things he wanted to do not only were impossible but in many cases illegal. He didn't want us to tell him it was illegal anymore because he knew, and these were his words, he knew that he had "magical authorities." He was one of the most unfocused and undisciplined senior executives I've ever encountered."
"I came away completely convinced based on firsthand experience that the president was ill-equipped, wouldn't become equipped to do his job effectively and what's worse, was actively doing damage to our security."
The bottom line: "Even though I'm not a Democrat, even though I disagree on key issues, I'm confident that Joe Biden will protect the country, and I'm confident he won't make the same mistakes as this president," Taylor said.
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