What is Miles Taylor's net worth? Inside Homeland Security ex-staffer's career as he calls Trump 'con artist'
Donald Trump's former staff member Miles Taylor has alleged that the former ex-president is a 'cruel con artist' after an investigation revealed Trump might have intentionally deceived his donors. During an MSNBC interview, Taylor claimed Trump is a ‘cruel con artist that wants to destroy people’. The whole thing seemed especially tragic to him after it was revealed that among the duped donors was a cancer patient who couldn't pay rent or utilities anymore, having their entire life's funds depleted by this trick.
"That was especially devastating," said Taylor, who explained his mother is a hospice nurse, thus giving him an idea of ‘how difficult life is for people at end of life’. He added: "And to raid someone of their money at the end of their life has got to add onto that hardship for the whole family." The former Trump administration official's resume comes with a list of important roles like Chief of Staff to former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Acting Secretary Chad Wolf and a stint at Google. These roles have considerably contributed to his net worth of an estimated $2 million, according to the website factbuddy.com.
Forever a con artist, the ex-POTUS would rather pickpocket his supporters than shake their hands. pic.twitter.com/CFU9STV0Lk
— Miles Taylor (@MilesTaylorUSA) April 4, 2021
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Miles Taylor's career
Taylor served in Trump administration's Homeland Security team from 2017 to 2019. He was later hired by Google in 2019 as the Head of National Security with him managing government affairs and public policies. He took a leave of absence from Google to join the Joe Biden campaign and soon made headlines in August 2020 when he first publicly denounced Trump. His denouncement came in the form of an ad campaign for the then-candidate and current POTUS, Biden, first, and then as part of an Op-ed written for The New York Times, under the alias 'Anonymous'.
Taylor also co-founded the group the Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform - an anti-Trump group. When asked during a PBS interview why he waited almost a year after leaving the Trump administration to speak out against the ex-POTUS, he said: "If I had come out and talked about Donald Trump a year ago, when I left the administration, he's a master of distraction."
Taylor added: "He would have buried it within a day, and it wouldn't have mattered to voters. But, right now, American voters are reviewing the president's resume...so, I think there's no more important time for me or other ex-Trump officials to come out and actually talk about what the experience was inside the administration and what kind of man sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office."
Trump duped donors
Taylor's allegations against Trump's alleged 'con' comes after the New York Times revealed that Trump's re-election campaign ahead of November 2020 had to refund more than $122 million to its donors after they had been unwittingly signed up to recur their donations to the campaign.
Buried in a disclaimer's fine print was the box donors were supposed to check to opt-out of funding the campaign, but it went unnoticed by many. The trick came into light when donors, who had signed off for a one-off donation, found money being deducted from their accounts every week. "This man is a grifter, he’s a con artist and he’s cruel. We have to look back at this period and learn a lesson and see the total damage done by bad rhetoric coming from our nation’s leaders, and how much of an effect it can have on our country and our own civility as Americans," Taylor said.