Miles Taylor: Anonymous No More

Impolitic with John Heilemann

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News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

John is joined by former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor to discuss the recent executive order by Donald Trump directing federal law enforcement agencies to investigate Taylor (for unnamed and unknown crimes) and his fledgling efforts to fight back. Taylor—who rose to prominence during Trump's first term with a New York Times op-ed and No. 1 bestselling book, written under the pen name Anonymous, that detailed a “quiet resistance” within the administration—describes the financial, professional, emotional impacts of being declared “guilty of treason” by Trump for no specified reason aside from having publicly criticized him; the legal countermeasures Taylor plans to undertake; and the wider political implications of his case. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.7	featuring lively, in-depth conversations with the people who cruise the corridors of power in America,
1:17.5	sculpting, shaping the ebb and flow of our politics and culture.
1:22.3	The start of Donald Trump's first term in office, it would have been difficult to conceive
1:25.8	a more unlikely resistance hero than
1:28.2	Miles Taylor, a squeaky, clean, baby-faced, buttoned down young Republican on the rise,
1:33.3	who by the age of 30 had interned in the offices of Dick Cheney and Michael Chertoff during the Bush
1:37.9	administration, worked as a House staffer on the Homeland Security Committee writing speeches
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