Miles Taylor (born 1986 or 1987)[1] is an author, commentator, and former American government official who served in the administrations of George W. Bush and Donald Trump.

[12][13][14] While in high school, he served as a page in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C.[15] He received a bachelor of arts degree in international security studies from Indiana University Bloomington, which he attended as a Harry S. Truman Scholar and Herman B.

He later said that he "wanted to focus my entire professional life on making sure a day like that wouldn't happen again, and dedicating my career to, what I thought, was the mission of this country, and that's the advancement of human freedom.

[29] Taylor cited the "train wreck" policy as one of his reasons for quitting the Trump Administration in protest, calling it "one of the most disheartening and disgusting things I've ever experienced in public service.

[34][35] Taylor authored a September 2018 The New York Times op-ed titled, "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration" under the name "Anonymous".

[36] He said that, in April 2019, he had personally witnessed President Trump offer Homeland Security staff federal pardons for any criminal prosecution arising from their actions in stopping illegal immigration to the United States, and it was at that point that Taylor decided to resign from the department.

[37][38] He left DHS in June 2019,[25][28] and anonymously released a follow-up book titled, A Warning (November 2019), which included an account of the instability inside the Trump White House and administration.

[44] Of his decision not to reveal his identity, Taylor said in October 2020: "Issuing my critiques without attribution forced the President to answer them directly on their merits or not at all, rather than creating distractions through petty insults and name-calling.

[46] Around the same time, he also became a senior fellow at the Auburn University McCrary Center for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

[50] Columnist Jennifer Rubin said the op-ed added "detail to what we could have only surmised was the story behind chaotic policy rollouts" and that the advertisement he released "may be the most compelling of the 2020 election cycle".

In the New York Times the day after the 2024 election, Taylor wrote that "Republicans with integrity cannot turn away from the difficult years ahead," urging them to "step forward and serve in the executive branch out of dedication to the principles that hold this country together, however tenuously.

[29] Taylor regularly appears on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, and other news outlets on issues related to national security, technology, and public policy.

[77] Taylor also served as the host and executive producer of iHeart Media's podcast series The Whistleblowers[78] and as a Special Contributor to Americast by BBC News.

[80] Taylor has been a frequent public commentator on AI technology and national security, including highlighting the challenges posed by synthetic media.

[9] In 2024, NBC News reported that Taylor led "war games" on how AI-powered tools might be used to launch new attacks against the United States and ways to leverage the technology against emerging threats.

[81] He subsequently produced a public service announcement on AI deepfakes with actor and comedian Ed Helms, featuring celebrities including Amy Schumer, Michael Douglas, Chris Rock, Laura Dern and Rosario Dawson.

[10][84] In a journal article, he proposed the concept of the "qubit military advantage (QMA)" — described as "the marginal additional processing power one armed force is able to bring to bear against another" via quantum computing — which he predicted would create new geopolitical competition.

[88] In October 2021, Taylor and former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman published an opinion piece in The New York Times announcing that RAM would be supporting "rational" Republicans and moderate Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections, with the goal of steering power away from members of the GOP who are pro-Trump.

[89] Taylor's group subsequently released a statement that they planned to raise "tens of millions" of dollars to defend a designated slate of House and Senate candidates in order to counter Donald Trump's hold on the Republican Party.

[90] In July 2022, Taylor merged his organization—Renew America Movement—with several others to launch a new political party in the United States, alongside former nationally known Democrats, Independents, and Republicans.

"[96] In May 2022, Taylor announced he was leaving the Republican Party over what he claimed was its espousal of "great replacement theory" rhetoric, especially in the wake of the Buffalo shooting.