Leaker unveils wave of whistleblowers coming to expose Trump’s misconduct

U.S. President Donald Trump watches a match during the UFC 327 event at Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, U.S., April 11, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

On Thursday, a leaker from President Donald Trump’s first administration revealed that more whistleblowers are considering coming forward to expose the “illegal activity" raging in the White House. This is according to Miles Taylor – who served as Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff in Homeland Security and famously leaked administration secrets – who explains that more leaks are soon to come, and provided some advice to those preparing to blow the whistle on Trump.

“I’m addressing this note to the ‘would-be’ whistleblowers inside the second Trump administration who are thinking about coming forward,” writes Taylor. “I know how many of you are out there. You work at DHS, the Justice Department, or the Pentagon. Maybe you left this past year after being pushed out or fired, carrying a banker’s box of trinkets from your desk and a pit in your stomach about what you’d witnessed. You’ve said nothing because the price of speaking out has never felt higher. You don’t want to be attacked or to risk your financial future or even, perhaps, to foreclose the possibility of going back into government.” And there is hard data to back up that fear. As Taylor notes, in 2024, a survey found that roughly three-fourths of federal employees said they could report illegal actions without fear of reprisal. After Trump had been back in office for a year, that number dropped to just 22.5 percent. “In other words,” warns Taylor, “the intimidation from the White House is working.”

He explains that he knows firsthand how frightening it can be, having written an anonymous New York Times piece in 2018 in which he exposed Trump’s misconduct. Then he came forward again as the 2020 election was ramping up to detail more about Trump’s quid pro quo pardons, his desire to shoot migrants at the border, and how he nearly dragged the U.S. into a nuclear war. “Coming forward cost me almost everything,” writes Taylor, as the Trump administration sought to discredit and exact revenge upon him. Based on this experience, he warns current aspiring whistleblowers that there are a few key things he wishes he’d done differently.

“Many of my disclosures never reached the investigative stage, despite in some cases being graver than the disclosures that led to Trump’s first impeachment,” he writes. “To this day, I wish I’d teamed up with a whistleblower organization to package each disclosure as a discrete, formal complaint for the relevant agencies and congressional committees. Believe it or not, formal complaints are harder to ignore than bombshell headlines. They land on the desks of investigators with the right jurisdiction… they create a paper trail… and they tend to become real investigations — which then become media firestorms anyway.”

To that end, Taylor recommends that would-be whistleblowers connect with groups like Whistleblower Aid and the Government Accountability Project, which are staffed with ex-government employees and former whistleblowers who provide free, expert assistance preparing disclosures lawfully and confidentially, and will “sherpa” a leaker through the whole process. Alternatively, Taylor notes that government employees wishing to report illegal activity can also do so via the Democratic Staff of the House Oversight Committee tip line or Senate Democrats’ whistleblower portal, though when doing so, he does advise using a personal rather than government device, and consulting a lawyer.

“I won’t pretend it’s a cakewalk,” Taylor admits to aspiring whistleblowers. “The emotional and professional toll can be great, but I promise it’s not greater than the toll of sitting on evidence of wrongdoing. I’ve watched for years what silence has cost my former colleagues. It’s corroded their consciences, their character, and their careers. I know all too well that witnesses to this administration’s corruption have been berated, threatened, and silenced. But their harassment of you has gone on long enough. Now it’s your turn to stand up, and this time you won’t be standing alone.”

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