Trump Defector Says Paranoid President Wanted to Wiretap Own Staff

President Donald Trump was once so paranoid about leakers and critics that he wanted to wiretap his own staff, a former Homeland Security official revealed.

Miles Taylor, a Trump 1.0 official turned defector, said he and several other administration officials gathered in a rural Virginia cabin in October 2018 to discuss their plans for dealing with the president—but first deposited all their devices into a Faraday bag, a specialized pouch that blocks electronic signals from going in or out.

While at DHS in 2018, Taylor wrote an anonymous New York Times column describing a resistance group within the Trump administration. / The Washington Post / The Washington Post via Getty Im

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