Brian Anderson

In an exclusive new interview on the MeidasTouch Network, former Trump Department of Homeland Security official Miles Taylor revealed how he had to draft national security memos at a first grade reading level so that Trump could understand them. Speaking of a memo he helped draft to explain to Donald Trump the ramifications of his plan to leave Afghanistan, Taylor noted: "This 50-page memo that we would normally give to any other president to show what his options are, is something Trump literally can't read. The man doesn't read. We've got to boil this down into a one-pager in his voice." Taylor explained how he had to write his memos at a first grade reading level so that Trump could adequately understand them. "And so I had to write this camp decently stupid memo called something like 'Afghanistan How to Put America First and Win' and then bullet by bullet I summed up this highly classified memo into Trump's sort of bombastic language because it was the only way he was going to understand. I mean, I literally said in there, you know, "If we leave Afghanistan too fast, the terrorists will call us losers. But if we want to be seen as winners, we need to make sure the Afghan forces have the strength to push back against these criminals." I mean, it was that dumb. And that's how you had to talk to him."