Next time he’ll get ‘er done: Donald Trump wanted to “tap the phones” of White House aides who he suspected of leaking information, according to bombshell claims made by a former Trump administration official. Miles Taylor, who served as the Department of Homeland Security’s chief of staff under Mr Trump, has claimed in his new book Blowback that the then-president floated the idea “to pursue leakers by tapping phones” at some point in 2018. The idea was quickly shut down by then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly who warned Mr Trump he would be breaking the law. Mr Kelly “quickly nixed the suggestion, knowing it would be illegal,” Mr Taylor writes in the book excerpt, obtained by Axios. I suspect that Chief of Staff Kash Patel won;t be quite so squeamish.