Big Tech-Funded Think Tank Hires 'Anonymous' Author Who Pretended To Be Senior Trump Aide
The author of an anonymous 2018 New York Times op-ed identified as a senior Trump White House official claiming to be an undercover agent of “The Resistance” landed a new role since his departure from a mid-level role at the Pentagon: senior fellow at the Big Tech-funded libertarian think tank R Street Institute.
Taylor, 34, wrote under the hidden penname “anonymous” to smear President Donald Trump while serving as a mid-tier bureaucrat in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), publishing both an op-ed in the Times and a book in 2019 to raise hysteria over the Republican president’s competence in office. While Taylor served as a mere policy adviser in DHS, the Times granted Taylor the generous label of anonymity with the title “senior administration official” leading to rampant speculation the author might have been anyone from White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to even Melania Trump.
Taylor …