‘Anonymous’ Gets Dropped by Secret Service After Spreading January 6th Claim – Opinion

Maggie Haberman of The New York Times dropped a “scoop” on Friday that captured the mainstream media’s imagination. The report centered on a “warning,” supposedly from January 5th, 2021, that Donald Trump was going to “turn” on Mike Pence, putting the latter’s life in danger the next day.

Haberman also claimed via her sources that the danger was grave enough that it was reported to the Secret Service by Pence’s staff.

The day before a mob of President Donald J. Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff called Mr. Pence’s lead Secret Service agent to his West Wing office.

Marc Short, the chief of staff had an address for Tim Giebels, the agent: President Trump was about to publicly attack the vice president and it could pose a security threat to Mr. Pence.

When I first saw this, my reaction was “who cares?” It’s currently June 2022. Anyone outside of the Beltway isn’t aware that January 6th has become a distant memory. Speaking to the issue of Trump turning on Pence, that was hardly a secret in the days leading up to the Capitol breach, and it’s not really noteworthy now — given the crises currently plaguing the country. Haberman’s report does nothing to move the ball forward on January 6th, simply serving as another moment for the press to go “wow,” instead of focusing on Joe Biden’s failures.

Regardless, the news led Never-Trump voice “Anonymous,” now revealed to be former no-name, former-Trump official Miles Taylor, to take to Twitter to express his horror.

Miles Taylor, who spent years anonymously claiming to be a big shot within the Trump administration, did not, in fact, “oversee the Secret Service.” He was a chief of staff within the Department of Homeland Security. He was an organizer and advisor, but he did not have any impact on the Secret Service. Chains of Command are actually possible, but Taylor was not part of them.

However, Taylor got dropped kicked by Secret Service Communications Director. This was a very happy turn of events.

Anthony Guglielmi was appointed to his role in March of 2022 by Biden, which means there’s no reason to suspect he’s lying in order to cover for Trump. Rather, it seems like Haberman’s report was simply false or lacked serious context. If this supposed serious threat to Pence was not actually shared with Secret Service, then it wasn’t a real threat. It is plausible that credible danger exists, and that Secret Service didn’t know of it.

Taylor, ever the consummate grifter, latching onto something so fantastical because it fit his preferred narrative wasn’t surprising. Gugliemi baptized Taylor in public and pointedly stated that Taylor or Haberman were not being understood by the Secret Service. Take this as a lesson: These wild anti-Trump news stories should not be taken lightly. The truth is often far more interesting than it seems.

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