The former Department of Homeland Security staffer who recently endorsed Joe Biden has shared a picture of him with President Donald Trump after Trump denied knowing who he was.
Trump dismissed former DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor, the highest-ranking former Trump official to endorse his opponent, as a “disgruntled employee” who he had never heard of in a tweet on Tuesday.
“Alas, I’ll take the bait,” Taylor wrote in a tweet. “Haven’t forgotten you though! I guess the only way to prove it is to tell some stories. Maybe until the election. What do you think?”
Taylor included a picture of him standing next to a seated Trump in the Oval Office, both of them smiling and giving a “thumbs up” to the camera.
The White House told The Hill in a statement that "the president takes thousands of photos with individuals he does not know so [Trump's] tweet should not be that surprising."
The Hill notes that Trump typically claims to not know administration officials who criticize him, as he did several times with witnesses in his impeachment trial.
Taylor wrote in a recent opinion piece for The Washington Post that “It is more than a little ironic that Trump is campaigning for a second term as a law-and-order president. His first term has been dangerously chaotic. Four more years of this are unthinkable.”
He went on to accuse Trump of withholding federal wildfire aid for California because of his lack of support in the state, and of having "a deliberate policy of ripping children away from their parents to show those parents that they shouldn’t come to the border in the first place."
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