Trump's fraud claims are garbage — and 'I helped dig it': Whistleblower

President Donald Trump is preparing to release classified intelligence documents he claims will reveal “irregularities” in American elections address during the election he lost in 2020. But Trump’s former intelligence analyst Miles Taylor says it’s all going to be bunk. And Taylor should know — he helped scoop it.

“I know what’s in that well of information [Trump’s] drawing from, because I helped dig it. During Donald Trump’s first term, I worked on election protection at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), helping to stand up the administration’s response to historic Russian interference in 2016. We built an entire, government-wide response system — intelligence analysts, cyber defenders, and law enforcement agents — who were full-time focused on stopping any such attack from happening again,” Taylor said on his Defiance website. “And I can tell you now, before Trump says a single word, he’s full of s——.”

“Pardon my language. But I’m virtually certain that whatever he presents on Thursday, it will be twice-warmed leftovers of information, cherry-picked and recast to tell a story our intelligence agencies never told because it was never true,” added Taylor. “

What actually happened in 2020 when it came to foreign interference, said Taylor was that America’s adversaries did try to meddle in U.S. elections during Trump’s first term and his his re-election. This included Russia, Iran, and China. Taylor says “we knew it, we tracked it, and the U.S. government declassified much of that information years ago.” But Trump’s agencies were unanimous on the crucial point that none of that tampering changed votes in either 2018 or 2020.

Trump’s own cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs called the 2020 election the “most secure in American history,” putting him in the way of Trump’s Big Lie that someone stole victory from Trump. For that, Taylor said Trump fired him by tweet.

“Trump never wanted election security,” said Taylor. “He wanted selective election security.”

In 2018, ahead of the midterms, Taylor and his co-workers briefed Trump on the fact that multiple countries were planned to interfere, but Trump was only uninterested in exposing any country that wanted to interfere in ways that would help Democrats, specifically China.

“And wouldn’t you know it — that September, Trump stood before the UN General Assembly and delivered sweeping warnings about Chinese interference. Yet he said next to nothing about Russia, the country that had actually run a sophisticated operation to help him in 2016 and was gearing up to do it again,” said Taylor. “We were gobsmacked. So were Members of Congress briefed on the same intelligence. … Inside the national security community, the conclusion was as obvious as it was appalling. Trump welcomed foreign interference when it helped him and opposed it when the threat actors seemed eager to hurt his chances.”

So when Trump resurrects old news about Chinese meddling Thursday and “inflates them into proof” that 2020 was stolen from him, Taylor said remember that he’s only recycling intelligence he cherry-picked for political convenience eight years ago.

“If this evidence were real, Trump himself had the power to declassify all of it before leaving office in January 2021,” said Taylor. “He didn’t … because it doesn’t say what he’ll claim it says … and proof doesn’t exist.”

Meanwhile, Taylor said Trump has installed loyalists over the DNI, DOJ, and FBI, and his crew is mounting a “whole-of-government campaign to sow doubt about the vote that it fears it will lose.”