Ex-Trump official says president is getting 'kicked' in courts

President Donald Trump is trying to create a climate of fear in America, but his former Homeland Security chief of staff told MS NOW that the courts are punishing him for his effort.

“Just think about this — our friend Kyle Cheney over at Politico, I think as of earlier this month, documented that there had been 10,000 cases judges had thrown out of people illegally put in immigration custody,” Miles Taylor told Nicole Wallace on MS NOW. “That's just one type of case — 10,000 thrown out. There's a 9-to-1 loss ratio when the government gets challenged on illegal detention. That is breathtaking. And that's just immigration.”

He added, “Then you look at the big constitutional suits against this administration — big separation-of-powers issues, big violations of law. There are hundreds of those cases, I think north of 700 in the courts, and the administration has been losing those 2-to-1 in the lower courts. They are on a crime spree across this administration. The numbers show it. And you can't believe the administration when they say, ‘Well, that's liberal activist judges’ — 72 percent of the time, Republican-appointed judges are ruling against them. They're getting their b—— kicked in the courts because they're breaking the law.”

Taylor, who served in Trump's first term in the Department of Homeland Security, added that, while these might seem like failures for the administration, they are not once you realize that their goal is intimidation.

“Here's the thing, Nicole — they kind of don't care if they win these cases, because their goal is just to scare people about getting sued,” Taylor explained. He then pivoted from breaking down the culture of fear’s impact on immigration policy to the culture of fear’s impact on the economy.

“If you need evidence of that, Andrew Ross Sorkin the other day at CNBC noted that CEOs are refusing to even talk about how Trump is tanking the economy,” Taylor pointed out. “Think about the fact that he's ruining these companies, putting them in danger from high inflation, but no CEO is willing to speak up about it. Why? Because they privately tell Andrew Ross Sorkin that they're scared of being attacked by the president. So the fear campaign is working to a certain extent — it's making folks afraid to go up against Trump, because even if these lawsuits won't be won, they're just worried about having to be sued in the first place.”

He concluded, “That's why the Trump administration is doing this.”

Earlier this month, Taylor also argued that Trump’s policy of instilling fear has turned the Republican-controlled Congress into a rubber stamp for the president, even though GOP lawmakers by and large personally dislike the president.

"So, you want to know why people self-censor?” Taylor wrote for The iPaper. “It is situations like mine. Trump and his acolytes realize they don’t need to arrest everyone, they just need to make enough public examples that everyone else decides speaking up isn’t worth the cost."

He added, "I’ve been texting with some of those elected GOP leaders over the past few weeks, urging them to follow suit, to speak out. I know they’re appalled by Trump. When he was threatening genocide, they said so – to me, in private messages. But not one of them has spoken out publicly. In some ways, I understand why, because I’ve seen what speaking out costs. But what they don’t get is that their silence is making it worse for them, not better. Intimidation is a vicious cycle. As soon as you cower, the current grows stronger. The ones doing the intimidation face less resistance, realize their tactics are working, and double down. Unfortunately, the numbers have proven this to be the case in America."

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