My interview with Miles Taylor, Trump’s anonymous whistleblower.
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In this Issue:
I interview Miles Taylor, Trump’s former Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, who published an anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times, blowing the whistle on presidential misconduct.
Tim Pagliara, the author of Another Big Lie, talks about banking fraud via Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac.
Miles Taylor infiltrating a wayward Republican Party to return it to sanity
We need a sane Republican Party if we are to have a real debate of ideas. Former Trump Administration Official Miles Taylor is on the mission. He, along with his cohort of sane Republicans, are making an effort to save their party.
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In a frank interview, Miles Taylor made it clear that most folks who worked for Donald Trump knew that he was incompetent. He said many saved us from Trump. There was a breaking point for him. Trump said something he found so offensive that he could take it no more. Taylor went into action. He wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times where he excoriated the president.
I really enjoyed this interview. Taylor displays the necessary intellectual honesty that his party is now devoid of. He seems to have the energy to last out the impending war. His short-term battle is lost, but not the war.
Who is Miles Taylor
Miles Taylor is a public policy leader, bestselling author, and current Senior Fellow at the R St Institute in Washington, DC, where he focuses on emerging technologies and public policy. Previously, Miles was Google’s U.S. Lead for Advanced Technology and Security Strategy, responsible for promoting next-generation cyber defense, digital security, and innovation in areas such as quantum computing and artificial intelligence. He also served as the company’s Head of National Security Policy Engagement.
Before Google, Taylor worked as the former Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He oversaw day-to-day operations of the government’s third-largest department, including nearly 250,000 employees and a $60 billion annual budget. He was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security and managed engagement with the White House, federal agencies, foreign governments, and industry partners. Taylor also served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to Secretary John Kelly, advancing efforts to protect the United States against nation-state adversaries, criminal plots, terrorists, and cyber threats.
In 2018, Taylor published an anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times, blowing the whistle on presidential misconduct. As Anonymous, he later released the book A Warning, a first-hand account of the instability inside President Trump’s White House and administration, which topped The New York Times best-seller list. After resigning, Taylor publicly endorsed Trump’s opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, and helped recruit an unprecedented number of former administration officials to provide truth and transparency to the American public and to oppose the reelection of a president they once served. He revealed himself to be Anonymous in October 2020.
Taylor was previously a top national security aide in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served on the staff of House Homeland Security Committee, House Appropriations Committee, and earlier in his career in the Office of the Speaker of the House. Taylor also worked in the George W. Bush administration in the White House and the Department of Homeland Security.
Taylor is co-founder of the Washington Leadership Academy, a four-year high school in Washington, D.C., named one of America’s top 10 “Super Schools” by the XQ Project. He is also a documentary filmmaker, and in 2017 he produced Democracy’s Messengers, a film about the work of young Americans serving on Capitol Hill, featuring narration from the late ABC News journalist Cokie Roberts.
He is Co-Founder of the Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform (REPAIR), a former CNN contributor; a senior fellow at the McCrary Center for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security; and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Taylor received his M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar and his BA from Indiana University as a Harry S. Truman Scholar and Herman B. Wells Scholar. A proud Hoosier, he is a La Porte High School graduate in La Porte, Indiana, and the Congressional Page School in Washington, D.C.
Tim Pagliara, the author of Another Big Lie, talks about banking fraud via Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac.
Tim Pagliara, author of Another Big Lie: How The Government Stole Billions From The American Dream Of Home Ownership. And Got Caught exposes 2008 collapse myth.
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Tim Pagliara (www.capwealthgroup.com) is ForbesBooks author of Another Big Lie: How The Government Stole Billions From The American Dream Of Home Ownership. And Got Caught! Pagliara is the founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of CapWealth, an independent, SEC-registered investment advisory firm near Nashville, Tenn. Forbes named him as the No. 1 financial advisor in Tennessee in 2020. In 2014, Pagliara founded Investors Unite, an organization representing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders after the U.S. Treasury Department placed the government-sponsored enterprises into conservatorship. In 2018, Pagliara was named Tennessee’s top financial advisor by both Forbes and Barron. He’s appeared in Barron’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisors in six of the past seven years.
To Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s Fate?
‘Scapegoats’ Of The 2007-08 Financial Crisis Still Hold The KeyTo Affordable Mortgages, Author/Wealth Advisor Says
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have long been seen as the backbone of the U.S. mortgage market. They are federally backed home mortgage companies, known as government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), created by the U.S. Congress.
But they were blamed by many critics for the mortgage meltdown and subsequent financial crisis of 2008. Now, over a decade after a takeover by the U.S. Treasury and being placed into conservatorship, the GSEs are still a vital component of America’s access to housing. However, their future is uncertain, even as Fannie Mae executives discuss a way out of conservatorship.
The next chapters of the Fannie and Freddie story are crucial because their future could impact yours, says Tim Pagliara (www.capwealthgroup.com), ForbesBooks author of Another Big Lie: How The Government Stole Billions From The American Dream Of Home Ownership. And Got Caught!
“First, the cost of your mortgage could be going up,” Pagliara says. “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the reason you can get a 30-year, fixed-interest mortgage anywhere in the United States. They are the bedrock of the American middle class, the strongest engines of economic equality this country has ever invented.
“But this isn’t just a story about what happened a decade ago; it’s about what’s going to happen over the next few years in regards to being able to secure mortgages. Fannie and Freddie’s fate will determine whether those doors remain open to you and your loved ones. Now, this has become a war over the future of homeownership in the United States.”
Discussion Questions
What does your book unveil about the 2008 crash? Who was involved?
Why are we still depending on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
Why is their fate so crucial to future homeownership in the U.S.?
What happens to mortgage access if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac get scrapped?
What are you seeing that happened in 2007 that is happening now?
What would it mean if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac remain in government conservatorship for the foreseeable future?
What does your Investors Unite organization hope to achieve?
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