‘You Lied To Us’: Chris Cuomo Presses Miles Taylor After He Reveals He Was ‘Anonymous’

CNN’s Chris Cuomo is pressing former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief of staff 👤Miles Taylor for previously telling reporters he was not “anonymous” when asked.

Taylor, who penned a 2018 op-ed in The New York Times anonymously, revealed on Wednesday his identity, as IJR reported. He was the chief of staff at the DHS until 2019.

During an interview on CNN Wednesday evening, Cuomo flatly said to Taylor, “You lied to us,” adding that he was asked during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper in August if he was “anonymous” to which, at the time, he said he was not.

“Why should CNN keep you on the payroll after lying like that?” Cuomo asked. Taylor responded, saying in defense that when he anonymously published his book “A Warning” he noted that “if asked, I would strenuously deny I was the author.”

He continued, “And here’s the reason because the things I said in that book were ideas I wanted 👤Donald Trump to challenge on their merits. We have seen over the course of four years that 👤Donald Trump’s preference is to find personal attacks and distractions to pull people away from criticisms of his record.”

“I wrote that work anonymously to deprive him of that opportunity and to force him to answer questions on their merits…The end result is, the president couldn’t.”