Thread by @YossiGestetner

Hahaha. And DC was certain that (or acted as if) Anonymous was a senior admin official like an Ambassador or cabinet secretary. They asked for comment from all cabinet members!

This, as @Cernovich says, was another hoax.

What a joke.

https://twitter.com/dsupervilleap/status/1321537473076482050

I doubt highly that the New York Times would have given to a chief of staff of one of the many departments within the US government the elevation and attention it has given to Anonymous. This was full on fake news hoax. People thought it’s a cabinet member or close Trump advisor.

🚨 @MilesTaylorUSA was not Chief of Staff of Homeland when the op-ed ran in Sep 2018 as first noted by @jonathanvswan. Even if he were COS, it’s not a “senior admin official” which people/media took to be a cabinet mnember or WH advisor.

The Anonymous op ed was relevant only because it was Anonymous with the suggestion that it’s a cabinet member or POTUS advisor. This isn’t a side show. This is the story; this is the hoax that the NYT pulped on the public.

Had he written his name it would have been irrelevant.

Note the dates.

NOTE THE DATES.

NOTE THE DATES!

No. “Former Homeland Security Chief of Staff @MilesTaylorUSA” did NOT write the op-ed. This falsely suggests that he was COS at the time. He was not.

You may as well write “former diaper pooper wrote the anonymous op-ed.”

The mere fact that the NYT permitted someone to run an op-ed without a name was used as proof that this must be some very high ranking official. See @CillizzaCNN at the time.

@MilesTaylorUSA was not even COS at the time!

H/T @EddieZipperer