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May 5, 2025

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EndPresidentialRevenge.org, is a platform to raise legal defense funds supporting whistleblowers and their lawyers to hold the Trump administration accountable for whistleblower retaliation and intimidation. 

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 2025 – A new legal defense fund will support Miles Taylor, a former Trump-appointed senior official at the Department of Homeland Security turned prominent dissident, in response to the Trump administration’s unprecedented and unconstitutional retaliation campaign against whistleblowers and the lawyers who represent them. The platform EndPresidentialRevenge.org will be used to back Taylor and others who have been targeted for speaking out. 

• The White House is issuing on-going executive orders tasking the executive branch to target individuals and organizations based on President Trump’s personal animus. Whether the target is a whistleblower, like Miles Taylor, or a subject matter expert whose findings annoy him, like Chris Krebs, or Mark Zaid, legal experts have denounced this move as both meritless and an egregious abuse of executive authority because it breaks down the once-sacrosanct barrier between politics and law enforcement.

On April 9, the White House issued an Executive Order explicitly targeting Taylor for investigation for a litany of alleged serious crimes including espionage and treason.

Whistleblower Aid will be lending its own legal expertise, as well as legal defense fund support, to a powerhouse team of defense attorneys who plan not only to represent Taylor but to set a vital precedent ensuring that future government whistleblowers, critical to the health of our democracy under any administration, do not face the same risk of targeted retaliation. Given the continuous issuance of targeted executive orders, the fund anticipates supporting other targets of the president’s ire serving not only as illegal retaliation but as aggressive intimidation silencing future whistleblowers. Taylor’s legal team includes Lowell & Associates, Hecker Fink, and Mark S. Zaid, PC, as well as the support of Whistleblower Aid, State Democracy Defenders Fund, and other nationally known civil society organizations.

“In America, you shouldn’t fear prosecution for criticizing the president,” Miles Taylor said today. “This isn’t about politics. You don’t have to agree with me about Donald Trump’s character or fitness for office. This is about whether Americans think it’s okay for a president — of any political party — to criminalize criticism.” 

Taylor first blew the whistle on Trump during his first term by penning an anonymous op-ed in The New York Times raising significant concerns about his erratic behavior. He later went public, writing and speaking openly about the grave risks to democracy and to national security if Trump were to return to office for a second term, including sounding the alarm about likely presidential revenge.

Even before last month’s Executive Order, Taylor faced significant threats to his security and financial well-being. This, though, is the first time in U.S. history that a president has invoked investigative powers against named private citizens.

In response, more than 200 former government officials and leaders from both major political parties signed a united letter condemning the president’s abuse of executive authority in seeking retribution against perceived enemies like Taylor and Krebs.

“These retaliatory actions are taken straight from the playbook of the worst autocracies around the world as they silence dissenting voices,” said Whistleblower Aid CEO Libby Liu. “If left unchecked, this abuse of power becomes punishment by proclamation further enforcing the administration’s reign of fear and intimidation. Not only will we be supporting Miles every step of the way, we will support others who find themselves facing similar threats.”

“Whistleblower Aid was created to hold the powerful accountable —and, now that the president is weaponizing the power of his office against his fellow citizens, we intend to do just that. Retaliation has no place in the democratic process.”

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Whistleblower Aid provides pro bono legal, advocacy, and communications support to government and private sector whistleblowers acting in the public interest. The organization’s lawyers have represented some of the most consequential national security and Big Tech whistleblowers in history, including the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, the anonymous intelligence community whistleblower whose disclosures led to the first impeachment of President Trump, and others.

Whistleblower Aid is a 501(c)(3) organization.