Former DHS Official Says Trump Suppressed Terrorism Warnings to Defend White Supremacists

Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at Homeland Security, spoke to MSNBC Thursday, warning that he had witnessed the president’s suppression of warnings of terrorism while serving in Donald Trump’s administration.

A Department of Homeland Security bulletin was sent on Wednesday warning of a possible attack by anti-government extremists.

“So Miles, let me make a racist president for dummies here,” said host Nicolle Wallace. “The FBI director, the Department of Homeland Security, is gathering enough information to testify before Congress that the greatest threat from the homeland comes from white supremacists. It sounds like people reporting directly to President Trump either resisted or knew they would face opposition in the White House when they took their warnings to the President. I want you to tell me if you saw what you heard firsthand and if you can explain how far it has gone. Did you make it to John Bolton or John Kelly or the Oval Office? Or were the department-level warnings killed? “

Taylor revealed that such warnings went as far as the Oval Office while he was with the DHS.

The person we didn’t want to talk about was Donald Trump himself, ”revealed Taylor. “The conclusions are obvious. The president of these people who intended to commit violence against their fellow Americans were potential supporters in his eyes. That’s why, after Charlottesville turned the other way, both sides had good people. That’s why we saw him after the El Paso massacre. That is why we saw him ignore those warnings in the run-up to the Capitol uprising. “

Taylor said he had problems with the bulletin not having to be published two weeks ago, but rather that it should have been published two years ago when the DHS ordered a report on domestic terrorism in the US

“Why did the DHS leadership rely on this report and this assessment after we left? Why didn’t they talk about how serious this threat was? “Asked Taylor. “We knew it then. We were very concerned and said we need to let state and local law enforcement and the American public know how bad this is going to be. “

He went on to say that the threat of domestic terrorism was so serious that it was on a par with the last terrorist attack on the United States.

“This is one of the most serious terrorist threats we have seen since September 11th in 20 years. It happens on our own soil, ”said Taylor. “These are people who have been radicalized by our own president. They recruit, select targets, carry out training and planning prior to the operation and network across national borders. In some cases international. This is no different from the rise of ISIS and this kind of networking and coordination that resulted in organic terrorist attacks emerging around the world and domestic terror going viral in our country. That is the concern of counter-terrorism officials in the United States today, and these ignored warnings in the Trump administration have put us at risk today. “

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