Anonymous ... Turned Out to Be a Guy Who Was Pretty Anonymous "Anonymous," the unnamed Trump administration official who claimed in an infamous New York Times op-ed that he was secretly trying to "Thwart" Trump's policies, turned out to be ... Miles Taylor, a former policy adviser and deputy chief of staff to Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielson, and eventually chief of staff in the department, although not until after the op-ed was published.
You seemed like the most incongruous figure in the Trump administration, but from all available evidence, you served professionally and with dignity.
The New York Times op-ed editors' decision to keep Taylor anonymous, and describing him, not all that accurately, as "a senior official in the Trump administration," deliberately created a misleading impression that the author was a much more prominent, much more influential figure than he was.
"People like me should have done more; looking back, I wish I had laid my body on the train tracks and said, 'we can't implement this.'" Taylor signed on to help the Trump administration, told the New York Times he was secretly trying to stop the Trump administration, and then helped enact one of its most controversial policies.
Now major media institutions try to persuade the public that Trump is a racist, ignorant, power-hungry monster.
Why did Americans think Donald Trump was a fascinating, shrewd, decisive, larger-than-life leader when he descended that escalator in 2015? Because the media and most of America's economic and political elites treated him as if he was one for about three decades before he ran for president.
Putting a narrative over truth in order to "Get Trump" ... is ironically, how you get Trump.
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/anonymous-falls-flat/
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