Former Trump Insider Drops Bombshell, Republicans Are Done But Too Cowardly to Say It
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Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan
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🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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We are joined by former Trump official Miles Taylor to discuss what getting him out of office will look like.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Trump's illegal war in Iran is dragging on with absolutely no end in sight. |
| 0:11.2 | And Pete Hague Seth, who was wholly unqualified, a Fox News narcissist, went to Capitol Hill |
| 0:16.2 | for a second day and made very clear who he thinks the real enemy is. |
| 0:21.9 | This is breathtaking. Play the clip. |
| 0:24.1 | Adversary we face at this point are the reckless naysayers and defeatist words of congressional |
| 0:31.2 | Democrats and some Republicans. Defeatists from the cheap seats who two months in seek to undermine the incredible efforts that have |
| 0:40.6 | been undertaken and the historic nature of taking on a 47-year threat with the courage no other |
| 0:46.9 | president has had. |
| 0:49.4 | Okay. |
| 0:50.3 | To unpack this, joining me today is Miles Taylor. |
| 0:53.9 | He is the founder of defiance.org and former DHS chief of staff under Trump 1.0, who quit during the first administration in protest. |
| 1:04.5 | He is the author of New York Times number one bestseller, a warning about the dangers of a second Trump turn. Miles. How are you? |
| 1:14.4 | I'm great. Fantastic to be with you. What do you make of Pete Hagseth grandstanding and lying and saying |
| 1:22.4 | that the real enemy are Democrats and some Republicans. |
| 1:28.3 | When you see Pete Hegseth talk, you know how bad he's lying by how passionate he gets, |
| 1:35.3 | right? |
| 1:36.3 | The guy only tells the truth when it's like close to a whisper and there's very little gesticulation. |
| 1:41.3 | That's when he's telling the truth. |
| 1:42.3 | This was one of those moments where he was clearly lying through his teeth about the extraordinary gains of this war and the defeatism of the adversaries. I mean, that rhetoric, Jennifer, legitimately belongs in a 20th century autocracy. It feels so weird in this moment to see people talk in those terms |
| 2:03.3 | when they know it's not true. This isn't any victory for anyone. And forget what you say about it |
| 2:08.3 | or what I have to say about it. The American people now, according to polling yesterday, say this is |
| 2:13.0 | the least popular war since Vietnam and more unpopular than Vietnam. Okay, that just happened yesterday, |
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