Miles Taylor, a former deputy chief of staff in the Department of Homeland Security during the first Trump administration who wrote an op-ed criticizing President Trump, said the president is creating a "modern blacklist."

"I think he wants to create a modern blacklist and have that blacklist ruin people's lives," Taylor responded when asked what he believes Trump's plan is during an interview on MSNBC's "Deadline White House."

"Because it's a lot of effort to go through with trying to pursue and prosecute hundreds of your enemies," he continued. "All you need to do is try to successfully do that to a couple, to send a message, and that's what some of his officials have said."

Taylor wrote an op-ed for the New York Times in 2018 and later a book under the pseudonym “Anonymous” about how

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