Trump Says Former Security Aide Who Endorsed Biden Is ‘Lowlife’

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump called a former senior aide in his administration who publicly endorsed Joe Biden on Monday “a lowlife” and said he had never met him.

Miles Taylor, who was chief of staff to former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, taped an ad for the group Republican Voters Against Trump in which he says Trump “wanted to exploit” the agency “for his own political purposes.”

“He was one of the most unfocused and undisciplined senior executives I’ve ever encountered,” Taylor said in the ad, released online Monday. He said he realized: “The president was ill equipped and wouldn’t become equipped to do his job effectively, and what’s worse, was actively doing damage to our security.”

Trump said during an event to tout construction of his border wall in Yuma, Arizona, that he had never met Taylor -- a slight the president often employs to belittle critics.

“I never met him. I never heard of him before,” Trump said. “These are bad people; these are sick people.”

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said at the same event that he is “very disappointed in Mr. Taylor.” Wolf said Taylor had not expressed concerns about Trump administration policies before the ad was released.

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