{"id":3657,"date":"2026-07-16T22:45:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2026-07-16T22:45:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:45:32","slug":"trump-defector-says-paranoid-president-wanted-to-wiretap-own-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3657","title":{"rendered":"Trump Defector Says Paranoid President Wanted to Wiretap Own Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>President Donald Trump was once so paranoid about leakers and critics that he wanted to wiretap his own staff, a former Homeland Security official revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3655\">Dem Star Eviscerates \u2018Sore Loser\u2019 Trump Ahead of Primetime Speech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Miles Taylor, a Trump 1.0 official turned defector, said he and several other administration officials gathered in a rural Virginia cabin in October 2018 to discuss their plans for dealing with the president\u2014but first deposited all their devices into a Faraday bag, a specialized pouch that blocks electronic signals from going in or out.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump, I was told, had queried a White House staff member about the possibility of wiretapping his own appointees. Us,\u201d Taylor wrote in a Substack post on Thursday. \u201cHe wanted to know if he was being critiqued behind his back and who was leaking bad stories about him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe raised the idea with the aide and, from what I know, was gently waved off\u2014treated as if he\u2019d said it by accident,\u201d Taylor went on. \u201cYet it didn\u2019t take long before rattled advisers began quietly sharing the information with trusted confidants. Beware: the president wants to wiretap us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When reached for comment, a White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson dubbed Taylor \u201ca hack.\u201d Taylor resigned from the first Trump administration after anonymously writing in a 2018 New York Times op-ed that he was part of a \u201cquiet resistance\u201d within the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe always has been and always will be an irrelevant loser who betrayed the American people by disclosing sensitive information through unauthorized methods and he is wholly unqualified to speak about anything related to the President or his administration,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cNo one should believe anything he says.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3653\">Trump Quietly Rolls Out New Truth Social Grift<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taylor made the revelation after CNN reported that White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and FBI Director Kash Patel personally oversaw a crackdown to determine who leaked information about the security deficiencies of a Qatari jet gifted to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Some officials were asked to turn over their phones to investigators on White House grounds, insiders told CNN, after Trump fumed over leaks about the Qatari jet intended to be used as his presidential plane.<\/p>\n<p>A White House official told CNN that \u201cLeaks that jeopardize the safety of the President, his staff, and the traveling press pool are dangerous and a threat to national security. The White House takes these leaks seriously and will do everything legally to ensure the individual or individuals are caught and it does not happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a situation that sounds eerily familiar to Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe careerists have been purged. The loyalists are very firmly in place, though they shouldn\u2019t get too confident that Trump believes they\u2019re true \u2018loyalists.\u2019 He wants them to be watched, and now, they know that they are being watched,\u201d he wrote on his Substack.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIn 2018, we needed a Faraday bag to speak freely in a cabin in rural Virginia, but in 2026, federal employees evidently need lawyers on speed dial because the president\u2019s henchmen might come for their phones at any minute,\u201d he added. \u201cSo it\u2019s clear the paranoia inside Trumpworld hasn\u2019t changed much. What\u2019s obviously changed is that no one is waving the president off anymore. His personal fears have been permitted to become chilling acts of censorship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3651\">MAGA-Curious CBS Boss\u2019 Desperate Charm Offensive Revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump was once so paranoid about leakers and critics that he wanted to wiretap his own staff, a former Homeland Security official revealed. Read more Dem Star Eviscerates \u2018Sore Loser\u2019 Trump Ahead of Primetime Speech Miles Taylor, a Trump 1.0 official turned defector, said he and several other administration officials gathered in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trumpland"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump Defector Says Paranoid President Wanted to Wiretap Own Staff - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3657\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump Defector Says Paranoid President Wanted to Wiretap Own Staff - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Donald Trump was once so paranoid about leakers and critics that he wanted to wiretap his own staff, a former Homeland Security official revealed. 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