Senior Customs Official Dismissed Over Alleged Ties to Anonymous Critic

According to BlockBeats, a senior customs official was dismissed earlier this week by the White House due to alleged connections with the author of an anonymous opinion piece critical of U.S. President Donald Trump. The article, published in 2018, described internal resistance within the administration during Trump's first term. George E. Bogden, who was appointed this year as the Executive Director of the Office of Trade Relations at Customs and Border Protection, was unexpectedly asked to resign, surprising other officials within the U.S. government. It remains unclear how the government linked Bogden to Miles Taylor, who was a Department of Homeland Security official at the time the anonymous article was written for The New York Times.