Washington Post does its best to rehab ‘Anonymous’ New York Times author

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It’s tough out there for a “Never Trump” guy who is nowhere near as interesting as he thinks he is.

Miles Taylor, the former Department of Homeland Security staffer who authored an anonymous New York Times op-ed in 2018 claiming he was part of an anti-President Trump resistance inside the White House, has resurfaced as the subject of a Washington Post profile. The article, which reads like a hagiography, is a bizarre mishmash of glowing praise for Taylor, advertisements for his political services (he is more or less unemployed at the moment), and various defenses for his rotten behavior throughout the “anonymous” episode.

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