National "Public" Radio specializes in softball interviews for Democrats. But sometimes they'll also make room for bitter ex-Republicans like "Anonymous" Miles Taylor, who's made a pile of money being the unnamed gossip trying to take Trump down from his post within the Department of Homeland Security in Trump's first term.
On Monday's Morning Edition, co-host Leila Fadel cued up the Taylor spiel on Trump's new chief of staff Stephen Miller. Danger, Will Robinson! He screeched Stephen Miller is very "dangerous" and foresaw a "corruption spree" under Trump.
FADEL: So when Stephen Miller was elevated to White House chief of staff, you posted online that the decision is, quote, "among the most dangerous personnel decisions in the history of our republic." You worked with Miller for two years. What about that time makes you issue this warning?
TAYLOR: Well, Stephen has about as an expansive view of federal power you could imagine. Now, let me foot-stomp the loyalty piece. He is unflinchingly loyal to Donald Trump. But the problem there is that, in my observation over 2 1/2 years, the president had an inclination toward illegality, to be generous. If you are unfailingly loyal to someone like that, it means you're going to search for ways to advance ideas that might be deemed illegal or unconstitutional.
Taylor claimed President Trump, in a fit of anger in the Oval Office, wanted to "get rid of the judges -- an obviously absurd thing to say in our constitutional system," and Miller didn't object. Usually, liberals just talk about packing the Supreme Court when they don't like the judges.
Next, Fadel set up Taylor to promote his new documentary and forecast a "corruption spree" as Trump's tenure runs out:
FADEL: Were you surprised by the promotion, given that the president has also said immigration crackdowns maybe went too far, and he's the architect of that?
TAYLOR: You know, I wasn't. Just a week before the election, we had just finished and put out this documentary called "Corruptionland." And as part of it, we studied a hundred allegations of corruption in Trump's Washington. If you go look at the map - people can see the data for free at corruptionland.org, and they can stream the documentary. But we've got all hundred on that map, and it totals $377 billion in corruption.
When I looked at that map, to me, a lot of those dots had their genesis if not in Stephen's ideas, then in Stephen's execution on behalf of the president. To me, it made a lot of sense that he would choose Stephen. He's the type of person you expect to be with the leader in the bunker until the very, very end. And Trump sees what Stephen has done for him in putting those dots on that map. And so expect more of that. I mean, frankly, I expect a corruption spree in Washington.
The closest an NPR listener came to a conservative viewpoint in this segment was Fadel asking Taylor to demolish the Trump spin on his schtick:
FADEL: When we reached out to the White House about your appearance today, a spokeswoman wrote that you're a leaker with Trump Derangement Syndrome. What do you say to that?
TAYLOR: Well, look, I mean, at the end of the day, what I would say is anyone who's unwilling to tell the truth about this administration, I think, is probably a danger. There's one single expectation of every government employee in the United States of America, and that's you uphold the law. And if you're asked to break the law, you should go tell the country about it.
That's especially rich, considering that the Left in this country has been celebrating law-breaking illegal immigrants, and NPR's "domestic extremism correspondent" does sympathetic "ride-alongs" with anti-ICE extremists.
