Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff for the Department of Homeland Security, who endorsed Joe Biden last week is out with a new video for Republican Voters Against Trump that alleges Donald Trump offered to pardon staff who would carry out his immigration policy. Taylor says:
“It was April 2019, we were down at the border, the president said to the senior leadership of the Dept of Homeland Security, behind the scenes, we should not let anyone else into the United States. Even though he had been told on repeated occasions that the way he wanted to do it was illegal, his response was to say, ‘Do it. If you get in trouble, I’ll pardon you.’”
It was made clear to the president that it was against the law for us to simply deny anyone entry across the southern border including people who were fleeing violence, persecution, danger. Under the law, they had the right to come in to try to seek refuge in the United States. He said, ‘I don’t care.’ His exact words were, ‘The bins are full.”
The president offered to pardon U.S. government officials for breaking the law to implement his immigration policy. That was the moment I decided I was going to have to quit the Trump administration.”
New Ad: Miles Taylor reveals that Trump offered pardons to DHS staff in exchange for implementing his illegal immigration policies at the border.
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— Republican Voters Against Trump (@AccountableGOP) August 25, 2020
AXIOS reports, “Trump denied that he offered pardons to immigration officials when the allegations were first reported by the Washington Post and New York Times in August 2019.”