还记得两年前在《纽约时报》上匿名撰文抨击特朗普的白宫“内鬼”吗？

外界猜测了两年多，如今终于有了答案。

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当地时间28日，美国前国土安全部办公厅主任迈尔斯·泰勒（Miles Taylor）正式发表声明承认，自己就是2018年在《纽约时报》上匿名撰文批评特朗普“没有是非观念、心胸狭隘、领导无能”的白宫官员。

泰勒同时承认是《一个警告》（A Warning）一书的匿名作者，他曾在书中将特朗普描述为一个“无纪律、无道德”的领导人。

“我们面临一个重大抉择，因为我们关于特朗普（是否连任）的决定会影响到我们的未来”，在美国大选即将到来的当下，泰勒在声明中这样写道。

尽管身为一名共和党人，但泰勒已于8月公开表示支持民主党总统候选人拜登。

A former U.S. Department of Homeland Security official on Wednesday revealed he was the author of an anonymous 2018 New York Times op-ed and later book that excoriated U.S. President Donald Trump, stepping forward to urge Americans to vote against Trump.

Miles Taylor, chief of staff in the department until 2019, set tongues wagging in Washington with the editorial that called Trump amoral, petty and ineffective. He disclosed his identity on Wednesday in a statement on Medium, an online publishing platform, ahead of next week's presidential election.

"We alone must determine whether his behavior warrants continuance in office, and we face a momentous decision, as our choice about Trump's future will affect our future for years to come," wrote Taylor, a Republican who endorsed Trump's election opponent, Democrat Joe Biden.

特朗普：低级雇员、卑鄙小人

在泰勒公布身份后，特朗普随即发布推特回应称“从没听说过他”，并在28日亚利桑那州的一场集会上贬低泰勒是一名“低级雇员”，一个“卑鄙小人”。

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally at Phoenix Goodyear Airport in Goodyear, Arizona, U.S., October 28, 2020. /Reuters

Trump responded on Wednesday evening, saying, "Anonymous was a nobody, a disgruntled employee who was quickly removed from his job a long time ago."

"A sleazebag who never worked in the White House," Trump said on the campaign trail in Arizona.

“匿名者”曾引起怎样的轰动？

2018年9月，一位特朗普政府高级官员以“匿名者”的身份在《纽约时报》上刊载文章《我是特朗普政府中的一名抵抗者》，对特朗普进行了一系列猛烈抨击，引发外界对作者身份长达两年的猜测。

文章发表后，特朗普震怒，斥责这篇文章是“叛国的”，并要求报社“交出”文章作者。特朗普还敦促当时的总检察长杰夫·塞申斯（Jeff Sessions）彻查此事，令其在白宫进行了为期数月的调查。

2019年，“匿名者”再次归来，出版了书籍《一个警告》。这本书通过日常会议细节呈现了特朗普在内部国家管理，以及对外政策方针上的决策过程，书中称特朗普的执政风格就像“一个身处空中交通管制塔的12岁孩子，对着政府政策按钮随意乱按，对偏离航线的飞机漠不关心”。

自曝身份后，泰勒在推特上发文称，“特朗普是一个没有品格的人，这就是我写《一个警告》的原因，也是我和我的同事数月以来用假名反对他的原因。现在，是时候让大家走出阴影了。”

泰勒曾于2017年至2019年就职于美国国土安全部，据其自述，他是共和党党员，这也是他最初加入特朗普政府任职的原因，“作为一名共和党党员，我希望看到一位共和党总统能够成功。”

然而，在特朗普政府工作两年后，泰勒显然改变了他的观点——

“我目睹了太多次特朗普在危机中展现的无能，他的个人缺陷导致了他在领导上的失败，而现在他的失败需要美国人用生命来买单。”

The identity of "Anonymous" had been a favorite guessing game in Washington since an opinion column appeared in The New York Times two years ago from a "senior official" who claimed to be a member of the "resistance" within the Trump administration.

In the column, Anonymous said that "many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump's more misguided impulses."

The op-ed and book that followed it, called "A Warning," caused brief flurries of attention, although they were overshadowed by a series of books written by well-known former Trump associates, both pro and con, who identified themselves as the authors of their work. Many had suspected Taylor was the anonymous op-ed's author for months.

为何选择现在公开身份？

据美媒分析，泰勒选择在美国大选临近的时间点公开身份，是希望能在最后节点吸引选民支持拜登。不过，《时代周刊》撰文指出，共和党内的反对声音最终能有多大的效应与影响力，目前还是未知数。

据“美国选举计划”网站统计，截至28日，美国2020年大选提前投票人数已超过7516.2万人。