According to a former Donald Trump administration official, the White House is currently at work making it possible to rescind whistleblower protections if Trump or his inner circle are the ones targeted.
Appearing on MS NOW’s “The Weekend,” ex-DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor explained that what the Trump White House is proposing is “insane.”
After pointing out that he personally witnessed the president making illegal orders during his first term, he claimed the president now wants to handcuff whistleblowers like himself.
“I was there when he said we should shoot pregnant mothers in the legs who were coming in migrant caravans to the border,” he recalled. “He basically wanted us to shoot innocent civilians in the legs. All illegal orders, all things that we refused. This man is a category five hurricane of illegality, and that’s why there needs to be efforts to protect whistleblowers.”
“And so we announced grants to whistleblowers who need legal protection if they come forward, because this administration is trying to silence them,” he explained. “And this week, Jackie [Alemany], they said they were finalizing a rule —.”
“Who’s they?” co-host Eugene Daniels interrupted.
“The White House is finalizing a rule to allow them to fire, punish and potentially prosecute people who expose illegal misconduct,” Taylor replied. “They are literally saying, we can rescind your protections. We can rescind your protections in the senior civil service. If you disclose that the president has broken the law.”
“This is insane,” exclaimed. “We are in total banana republic territory. That’s why groups like Defiance. org need to go out there and protect whistleblowers.”
– YouTube youtu.be
The post ‘This is insane’: Ex-Trump official raises red flag about new threat to whistleblowers appeared first on Raw Story.
