![]() ![]() In my view, the department was unprepared for the type of nuclear conflict Trump might foment.”Ĭhris Krebs, then a top DHS official, confirmed to Politico that in 2017, “There was certainly a sense that there was a non-zero chance and therefore we should take the appropriate and reasonable steps of assessing readiness for such an attack.” Meanwhile, in November of that year, Taylor writes, Trump appeared unconcerned about the fact that North Korea had just tested a missile that could have reached the US. I cannot provide the details, but I walked out of those meetings genuinely worried about the safety of the country. homeland, dusted off response plans, and outlined best-case scenarios which nevertheless sounded horrifically grim. “Experts walked through various scenarios of a nuclear strike on the U.S. “We convened every top leader in DHS to discuss the brewing crisis,” he writes in the new book, which is set for release on July 18. The Department of Homeland Security took a step it had never taken before, according to Taylor, who is best known for writing an anonymous op-ed in The New York Times in 2018 describing a “quiet resistance” in the Trump administration “of people choosing to put country first.” “One day, he threatened North Korea ‘with fire, fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before.’ He almost seemed to welcome a nuclear conflict, which terrified us.” Taylor notes following one Situation Room meeting, then defense secretary James Mattis pulled him aside and said, “You all need to prepare like we’re going to war.” Mattis, Taylor write, believed “DHS assume the homeland was in mortal danger.” “In the national security world, anything having to do with nuclear weapons is handled with extreme sensitivity-well planned, carefully scripted-yet we didn’t know what Trump might say at any given moment,” Taylor, who served an adviser to the secretary of homeland security, writes. Politico reports that in a new book out this month, former Trump administration official Miles Taylor reveals that homeland security officials were so concerned about tension with North Korea that “multiple meetings to prepare for a nuclear attack on American soil.” While North Korea has obviously not ever been a friend to the US, according to Taylor, officials were genuinely concerned that, at any moment, Trump might do or say something to provoke the Hermit Kingdom. Oh, and also the fact that during his first time in office, his own officials feared he was going to get America reduce to nuclear waste. Then there’s the fact that he’s an abject racist and a massive bigot a threat to reproductive rights an unapologetic grifter a certified sexual predator a pathological liar and a friend to very bad people. how he reacts when things don’t go his way. Another is that whole January 6 insurrection business, a.k.a. One of them is his reported plan to purge the government of career employees with actual expertise, and replace them with only the most hard-core loyalists. There are countless reasons to worry about the prospect of Donald Trump winning a second term in office. ![]()
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