(Washington D.C.) - A former La Porte High School Valedictorian is making national headlines this evening after The Washington Post published an Opinion Editorital writien by the La Porte native entitled  "At Homeland Security, I saw firsthand how dangerous Trump is for America". 

 

Miles Taylor, a 2006 La Porte High School graduate and former Chief of Staff to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen (2017 - 2019) under the Trump Administration, wrote the editorial accusing the President of often using his office for political gain and detailing his experiences working under President Trump during his time at the Homeland Securty.   

 

Taylor stated in the piece, "I can attest that the country is less secure as a direct result of the president’s actions" and continued with detailed accounts of how the Presidents actions diverted the agency's attention from National Security. 

 

As a young lad in La Porte, Miles was a volunteer Grant Writing Assistant at the LaPorte Hospital Foundation and was a part-time reporter and board operator at 96.7 The Eagle.  Taylor left to  recieve his B.A. degree in International Security Studies at Indiana University as a Harry S. Truman Scholar and Herman B. Wells Scholar.  He then earned his M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar. 

 

According to his biography, Miles has worked on the House Appropriations Committee, he served as the youngest presidential appointee in the George W. Bush Administration focusing on foreign policy and national security and has worked at the White House, Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security, and been active with "think tanks". 

 

After the editorial was published in The Washington Post this afternoon, Taylor publically endorsed Joe Biden for President, becoming one of the highest ranking former officials of the Trump Administration to make such an endorsement.

 

The link to The Washington Post Opinion Editiorial is here.