Former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor said on MSNBC that he expects to be targeted by the federal government in the wake of the FBI raid on John Bolton’s home.
Taylor, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump who served at the Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019, made the remarks Saturday during an appearance on MSNBC’s The Weekend. Host Jonathan Capehart asked whether he feared being targeted after learning of the search involving the former national security adviser.
“When you heard the news, what did you think and how concerned are you that you could be next, your home could be next?” Capehart asked.
“Yeah, we expect it. I mean, really, we expect it. And that’s what is so surreal about this is we can all hear as we’re talking about this, be so certain of the president’s revenge campaign to know potentially who that next target might be or one of those next targets. I mean when my wife and I woke up and saw the news, she basically said to me, ‘it’s coming,’” Taylor said.
He went on to say he has expected retribution from Trump for years.
“Folks don’t have to play the violin for John Bolton or Miles Taylor. Maybe they don’t like either of us. That’s fine, because it’s not about us. It’s about the criminal justice system that all Americans expect to be able to treat them fairly. It’s a president of the United States weaponizing the tools of his office to reshape our society. And he’s doing that. He’s making sure the scales of justice tip in his favor,” he said, adding, “There’s no telling where this could go next.”
Taylor didn’t mention, nor did the far-left host, Capehart, bring up, the targeting of Trump by the Biden administration and several Democratic prosecutors during his four years out of the White House. In fact, Trump became the first president to ever be raided by the FBI, which happened under Biden’s watch.
The FBI raided former national security adviser Bolton’s Maryland home this week, though he was neither arrested nor charged. Agents were seen removing boxes from the residence, and Vice President JD Vance later said the investigation is connected in part to classified documents.
Bolton, a longtime critic of President Donald Trump, has frequently clashed with him on foreign policy. He has recently criticized Trump’s efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, a point some Trump critics have linked to the timing of the raid.
Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, discussed the FBI raid earlier in the day of Bolton.
Jordan said the raid was part of broader accountability measures targeting figures accused of undermining President Donald Trump’s administration.
He cited former FBI Director James Comey, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former CIA Director John Brennan among those under scrutiny.
“I don’t know how this went down today, but you’re right,” Jordan told Hannity. “The press wasn’t there. There wasn’t all this, you know, the big scene that it was three years ago this month when they raided President Trump’s home.”
“I think the big takeaway though is think about what we’ve learned in the last four weeks because of the good work of the attorney general, of Director Patel, of ODNI Director Tulsi Gabbard, think about what we’ve learned,” he continued.
“We learned that Jim Comey and his chief of staff were leaking classified information. We learned that a whistleblower has come forward and said Adam Schiff was leaking classified information,” Jordan said.
“We learned from [DNI] Tulsi Gabbard that there’s another whistleblower who said that they changed the intelligence community assessment. They changed the report to say something different back before President Trump even took office, between Election Day 2016 and Inauguration Day.”