Former Trump aide says president offered pardons to officials to break laws

“It was April of 2019. We were down at the border, and the president said to the senior leadership of the Homeland Security Department behind the scenes we should not let anyone else into the United States,” Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at DHS, said. “Even though he’d been told on repeated occasions that the way he wanted to do it was illegal, his response was to say, do it. If you get in trouble, I’ll pardon you.”

Taylor said the president told the staff, “the bins are full.”

“The president offered to pardon U.S. government officials for breaking the law to implement his immigration policy,” Taylor said in the new ad.