Opinion: At Homeland Security, I saw firsthand how dangerous Trump is for America
President Trump in the Oval Office on July 20. Miles Taylor served at the Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019, including as chief of staff.
I wasn’t in a position to judge how his personal deficiencies affected other important matters, such as the environment or energy policy, but when it came to national security, I witnessed the damning results firsthand.The president has tried to turn DHS, the nation’s largest law enforcement agency, into a tool used for his political benefit. He insisted on a near-total focus on issues that he said were central to his reelection — in particular building a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.
The decision-making process was itself broken: Trump would abruptly endorse policy proposals with little or no consideration, by him or his advisers, of possible knock-on effects. That was the case in 2018 when then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, at the White House’s urging, a “zero tolerance” policy to prosecute anyone who crossed the border illegally.
How can you run a huge organization under those conditions? You can’t. At DHS, daily management of itsThe president has similarly undermined U.S. security abroad. His own former national security adviser John Bolton made the case so convincingly with his recent book and public accounts that there is little to add, other than to say that Bolton got it right.
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