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Washington (CNN) The anonymous senior Trump administration official who wrote a 2018 New York Times op-ed and a subsequent book critical of President Donald Trump is Miles Taylor, he revealed in a statement to CNN on Wednesday.
He had previously denied that he was "Anonymous." Asked in August by CNN's Anderson Cooper if he had written the op-ed and book, Taylor said, "I wear a mask for two things, Anderson: Halloweens and pandemics. So no." Taylor's statement answers one of the biggest mysteries of Trump's presidency.
A year later, Taylor released the anonymously authored book titled, "A Warning," which included new details critical of the President from inside the Trump administration.
Washington (CNN) The anonymous senior Trump administration official who wrote a 2018 New York Times op-ed and a subsequent book critical of President Donald Trump is Miles Taylor, he revealed in a statement to CNN on Wednesday.
He wrote that members of Trump's team considered sabotaging him to prompt Trump to resign, and that many administration officials kept their own letters of resignation in their desks or on their laptops. Taylor was Nielsen's deputy chief of staff when the anonymous op-ed was published, and he was promoted to chief of staff several months later.
Taylor's statement answers one of the biggest mysteries of Trump's presidency. Trump responded furiously to the op-ed when it was written in 2018, and urged then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate the matter. There was an internal hunt at the White House to uncover the identity of the author, and it spawned months ...
Taylor said that he wanted to force Trump to respond to the charges he was leveling without the ability to attack the messenger specifically. Trump called the op-ed treasonous. Read Miles Taylor's statement on being the 'Anonymous' op-ed writer.
The anonymous author is identified only as a "senior official in the Trump administration." But what exactly does that mean?
Op-ed is technically an abbreviation of "opposite" and "editorial" because such columns traditionally appear opposite the editorial page in a newspaper. But in general, op-ed is shorthand for opinion columns, commentaries or other authored features.
The term refers to a star in the night sky that provides guidance, such as the North Star. The distinctive word appears near the end of the Times' op-ed in discussing the moral leadership of the late Sen. John McCain.
The "deep state" is a political phrase that President Trump and his allies have used to describe what they see as an entrenched government bureaucracy that is quietly but actively working to undermine the president.
The 25th Amendment lays out rules surrounding presidential succession in case of a president's death or disability. The amendment was adopted in 1967 in the wake of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The anonymous author wrote the 25th Amendment was ultimately not invoked because "no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis."