An anonymous Trump administration official, who penned a 2018 New York Times opinion article to criticize President Donald Trump, has identified himself.

The said anonymous critic was the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, Miles Taylor.

Taylor said that "we do not owe the President our silence."

"We owe him and the American people the truth," Taylor noted in a BBC News report.

The controversial column was entitled "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration." It was published in The New York Times on Sept. 5, 2018. The said column caused an outrage in the White House and led to a frantic investigation, trying to find the author.

Trump earlier encouraged the Justice Department to investigate and called the anonymous author "gutless." Taylor also wrote a book about working with the Trump administration. The book was entitled "The Warning," with an author name as "Anonymous."

Taylor said the decision to go public was not easy, and he understands why some people consider it questionable to accuse a president of such serious charges under the cover of anonymity. But he said that he would stand with his straightforward reasoning.

"Issuing my critiques without attribution forced the president to answer them directly on their merits or not at all, rather than creating distractions through petty insults and name-calling. I wanted the attention to be on the arguments themselves," Taylor, who is now a CNN contributor, said in a report.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany lashed out on Taylor, adding that he is a former low-level staffer. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, on the other hand, said the revelation was a monumental embarrassment.

"I've seen more exciting reveals in Scooby-Doo episodes," Meadows noted in a report.

In the 2018 article, Taylor said that he was part of a secret "resistance" trying to undermine the president.

The New York Times released a statement saying that they are incredibly proud to have published this piece, adding that it provides important value to the public's understanding of what is going on in the Trump administration. 

Trump Wants Taylor Prosecuted

Meanwhile, Trump said that Taylor should be prosecuted. Trump told this in front of a crowd during his second Wednesday rally in one of the swing states, which is Arizona.

Trump called Taylor, a sleazebag, who has never worked in the White House. Trump did not refer to Taylor by his real name during his tirades against the former DHS officer.

Taylor was DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's deputy chief of staff when the anonymous article was published. He was promoted to chief of staff months later.

After leaving the Trump administration service in 2019, he endorsed Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden in August and co-founded a Republican group that opposes Trump.

Taylor said that he is a Republican and wanted the president to succeed. But he said, often in times of crisis, Trump has proven that he is a man without character and his personal defects have resulted in leadership failures significantly. 

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