Miles Taylor, CNN’s favorite mid-management White House bureaucrat, is back with hot new gossip on Donald Trump. The “Anonymous” author of the scathing 2018 New York Times op-ed about the former president is releasing his second book next month that promises to be both his juiciest work yet and an action novel — yep, you heard that right. Cockburn readily admits that Taylor is not a reliable source nor is he a real-life spy, but heck, the book will be too entertaining to pass up.
Among the most shocking bombshells in Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump is the former president’s allegedly sexist behavior toward female staff, including lewd comments made about his eldest daughter. “Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,” Taylor wrote in a preview obtained by Newsweek.
According to Taylor, there are many fearless female leaders in the Trump administration who have yet to come forward about the former president’s sexism. Taylor said his former boss and secretary of homeland security Kirstjen Nielsen was even called “sweetie” and “honey” by Trump. He also critiqued her makeup. The horror!
Cockburn isn’t telling the American people not to believe Taylor’s latest embellishments, only to take them with a grain of salt. After all, the book does double as a supposedly semi-autobiographical spy-thriller. It opens with a flashback — a Tom Cruise-style car chase through Asheville, North Carolina in which our intrepid hero, fresh off revealing himself as the author of the Times op-ed, weaves through traffic to avoid a hitman, an angry Trump supporter or maybe just a figment of his paranoid imagination. “Without the mask of anonymity, I felt exposed and, for the first time ever, hunted,” Taylor writes.
As if that wasn’t enough, Taylor recounts how he traded his quaffed hair and charming smile for a baseball cap and shades. A loaded pistol became his companion as he moved nearly a dozen times between private homes and hotels.
Cockburn’s review: high-octane, nail-biting and brimming with hyperbole. Huge if true — but does that seem likely?
