There were reports this morning that former Republican turned radical socialist Democrat John Kasich had said that a prominent Republican would be coming out today against Trump to endorse Biden. Well as with all things John Kasich, it’s a big letdown:
NEW: Testimonial ad from Trump's Former DHS Chief of Staff @MilesTaylorUSA, declaring his support for Joe Biden and describing Trump's presidency as "terrifying" and "actively doing damage to our security."
WATCH & go to https://t.co/Nz2NiSCquN for more. pic.twitter.com/iChqOdIIew
— Republican Voters Against Trump (@RVAT2020) August 17, 2020
They make him sound so prominent, but seriously, have you ever heard of Miles Taylor? No, I’m not talking about the Miles Taylor that you go to church with or the one that lives down the road from you. I’m talking about this guy that nobody has ever noticed, the one who also works for Google. Yeah that’s interesting isn’t it?
Steve Krakauer explains how this media sausage is made to make the most out of hitting Trump:
How your media sausage is made:
The same NeverTrump GOP team behind Lincoln Project runs RVAT, and today they got current Google employee and previously unknown Trump staffer to go public with video endorsement of Biden. But that’s just the beginning… 1/ https://t.co/4tfjyG1e01
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) August 17, 2020
Never Trumper. Check.
Note: Krakauer came back and corrected the above tweet, saying that these are actually two separate groups of Never Trumpers that did in fact work together on this huge, earth shattering, landscape changing roll out of Miles Taylor saying Trump is terrifying or something.
Next the staffer (named Miles Taylor) got a Washington Post op-ed to announce the news. This ensures his endorsement of Biden will go wide, and the op-ed (likely written by the political operatives behind RVAT) appears to give more credibiliity to him. 2/https://t.co/w9Gbw3oJBs
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) August 17, 2020
Washington Post article. Check.
But it has to appear even more credible and authentic, so in connection with the WaPo op-ed and the RVAT video, a triple-bylined CNN story on the staffer drops at the exact same time too (featuring Jake Tapper), with a promise to break more news on TV. 3/https://t.co/valQ2PhhNl
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) August 17, 2020
Fake News CNN article. Check.
What do you really have? A previously unknown DHS staff member who is currently a Google employee teams up with the Lincoln Project PR squad to kick up a “Trump administration official endorses Biden” on DNC Day 1 – and the media plays along with the game… 4/
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) August 17, 2020
Yep, it’s just one big fat coordinated lump of nothingburger that the media will put as many toppings on to try and dress it up like a real burger.
And lastly, just for kicks and giggles, Krakauer notes that Democrats don’t really like Miles Taylor all that much…
Here’s a Miles Taylor post-script not in the CNN report – BuzzFeed reported that he “helped sell Trump’s family separation policy” despite Google denying his involvement in it. https://t.co/5dCnnGgKg9
And House Dems condemned his hiring in November.https://t.co/18jjSPj5mQ
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) August 17, 2020
UPDATE: I should note that the Twitter account for nobody MilesTaylorUSA is brand new, started just for this. Very suspicious….