Author of anti-White House article reveals identity

File photo of Miles Taylor and then Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen.Tim Godbee / AP

There were statements and more statements from members of the Trump Administration denying that they were the authors of an anonymous article published in September 2018 in

There was speculation that

President Trump's

, Mike Pence, had plotted against his boss.

It was even fantasized that the betrayal came from the president's own wife, Melania Trump, who ended up speaking out on the explosive article to urge the official in question to "publicly defend his words."

"To the author of the opinion piece I say: 'You are not protecting this country, you are sabotaging it with your cowardly actions," the first lady said then.

The identity of the anonymous signer, a high-ranking US government official, was known only to the editorial team of the New York newspaper.

Until this Wednesday, when Miles Taylor, former chief of staff of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS, acronym in English), confirmed in a statement posted on the network that he was the author of the controversial text, in which he assured that a large group of officials working for Trump were struggling to contain and thwart the president's impulses that they considered most damaging.

Anonymous already has a name and it was not the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo;

not the Defense, Jim Mattis;

nor the National Director of Intelligence, Dan Coats;

neither did John Kelly, Chief of Staff.

It's simply Miles Taylor.

Entitled

the article described a conspiracy of "unsung heroes in and around the White House."

"Many of the high-ranking officials work from within to thwart parts of their agenda and their worst inclinations," the text explained.

“The root of the problem is the amorality of the president.

Anyone who works with him knows that he is not anchored to any discernible basic principle that guides his decision-making, "read the letter, which came to define the president as" impetuous, conflictive, petty and ineffective. "

The newspaper defended the decision to publish the anonymous article, which it recognized was something "unusual."

He claimed that he did so "at the request of the author," which he defined as "a high-ranking official in the Trump administration."

Hundreds of people fell into that category, from secretaries with portfolios and senior officials in the West Wing to press officers.

Trump reacted with fury to the publication of the article, which came a day after excerpts from

, the book by journalist Bob Woodward, were published, in which a similar portrait was drawn with statements and actions attributed to senior officials identified by name and surname. of an ineffective and even dangerous president for national and world security.

“It may be just a small comfort in this chaotic age, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room.

We fully realize what is happening and we try to do the right thing even when Donald Trump does not want to, ”Taylor wrote in his column, published on September 5, 2018, signed anonymously.

Until then, the year and a half of Trump's presidency had been so errant that, according to the anonymous, there were those who at the time considered the possibility of invoking the 25th amendment to the Constitution, the one that opens the door to the removal of the president for health mentally, although, the article said, the idea was scrapped to avoid a constitutional crisis.

So they decided to continue in the Administration until this "one way or another" ended.

This Wednesday there is less than a week left for the elections that at the moment end four years of the Trump era, although with the possibility of revalidation.

"The greatest concern is not what Trump has done to his presidency, but what as a nation we have allowed him," he said, without clarifying the distribution of responsibilities.

Following the publication of the article, Trump lashed out at

writing that if the "cowardly" author exists, the newspaper should "hand him over to the government for national security reasons."

Privately, as

reported at the time

, his explosion was one of "volcanic" rage.

Subsequently, the president tweeted: "BETRAYAL?" That was his feeling.

After the White House opened an internal investigation to try to find the author of the editorial, Trump even went so far as to ask the Justice Department to take action in the scandal.

Taylor resigned from the Department of Homeland Security in June 2019 and this past summer has been highly critical of Trump, releasing a video just before the Republican Convention in which he declared that the president was unfit to serve.

Taylor supported Democrat Joe Biden.

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