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President Donald Trump’s “anti-fraud” project led by Vice President J.D. Vance is nothing more than a “ruse” for a pretext to lock up his political foes, former Trump administration staffer Miles Taylor warned.<\/p>\n

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Taylor, who previously served in the Department of Homeland Security and is the author of the “anonymous” resistance op-ed, laid out the <\/span>scheme on his “Defiance” Substack on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The scheme is much more obvious when you consider the latest target of the administration’s anti-fraud crusade, Taylor wrote: a food truck in Santa Ana, California.<\/p>\n

“Of all the suspects DOJ could go after, why spend valuable federal prosecutorial and investigative resources on a food truck? Why not leave that to the local authorities?” wrote Taylor.<\/p>\n

But it all makes sense, he continued, when you realize the evidence was gathered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement \u2014 “an agency already on a quest to validate Donald Trump\u2019s claim that immigrants are stealing from Americans \u2014 and its agents evidently decided to focus finite resources on a tiny business in an immigrant heavy community outside of Los Angeles\u2026 in a state the White House has begun targeting aggressively\u2026 where DOJ also appears to have its governor, Gavin Newsom, under investigation.”<\/p>\n

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It’s all an attempt to gin up a narrative, said Taylor \u2014 and when you view the huge federal surge of agents into Minnesota earlier this year, it all makes even more sense, he added.<\/p>\n

“Late last year, welfare fraud was used as the thinly veiled pretext for the Trump administration to launch a massive immigration crackdown (and political shakedown) in a state led by Democrat Tim Walz, who challenged Trump for the White House in 2024,” Taylor wrote. “Thousands of ICE and CBP agents flooded into Minnesota to address a problem that \u2014 if the reasons were genuine \u2014 should have required not more than a few dozen accountants. It certainly didn\u2019t need gun-toting agents.” Ultimately, two people lost their lives and national outrage forced the operation to draw down.<\/p>\n

The good news, concluded Taylor, is that Trump and Vance have put themselves in a bind, because they can’t destroy the evidence of their scheme. That’s because in order for the criminal charges they want to bring to stick, “there must be evidence, discovery, and a chain of custody. The records must exist somewhere, or the cases go away,” wrote Taylor.<\/p>\n

And in a future administration, he said, “when investigators finally follow that paper trail, it will lead … back to the White House \u2014 and to proof of the deliberate weaponization of the American government against its own citizens. That\u2019s when the real fraud trials will begin.”<\/p>\n

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