The Leftist conspiracy theory machine was alive and well as Miles Taylor, founder of the anti-Trump organization Defiance and former DHS Chief of Staff appeared on MS NOW’s The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle and peddled the same old election security conspiracies that the Democrats and anti-Trumpers have been screaming about for years now, much to Ruhle’s excitement. In response to Ruhle’s question about how concerned he was about election security this year, Taylor threw up his hands as he passionately declared that his concern was “Off the charts”: RUHLE: How concerned are you? I'm not going to say 'are you,' how concerned on a one to 10? TAYLOR: Off the charts! Off the charts concerned because Donald Trump has already shown us this year his willingness in Fulton County, where Ali was just pointing to it on the board, his willingness to go in and seize ballots. This was the great fear that folks had in 2020. Donald Trump himself said in January that he regrets not sending the National Guard in to seize ballots, when it looked like he was going to lose.  Taylor’s concern stemmed from his baseless belief that Trump had shown “his willingness to go in and seize ballots” in the 2026 midterms because of an investigation into Fulton County, Georgia, years after the 2020 election. In an interview with the New York Times, Trump said that some of his advisors in his first term asked him to launch an investigation on the potential hacking of digital voting machines. Glaring through both his glasses and the camera, Taylor also criticized “the whole election security architecture” as “woefully inadequate” to stop a domestic threat since it was set up to stop foreign actors. Of course, he mentioned the debunked ‘Russian collusion’ conspiracy theory before suggesting the President was “the person attacking our elections.”     Taylor then sought to appropriate “FAFO,” rebranding it as the “Fight Against Federal Overreach,” which he launched from his website defiance.org. Taylor’s so-called Fight Against Federal Overreach effort entailed local prosecutors threatening to sue ICE officers carrying out lawful deportations in the same vicinity as polling places: One of the things that we announced today at defiance.org is an effort that we launched called Fight Against Federal Overreach. FAFO. These are local prosecutors across America who announced this morning, if Donald Trump does things like send ICE agents to the polls to intimidate voters, those local prosecutors are going to sue them. They're going to charge them. They're going to put them in jail if they engage in illegal voter intimidation. We're talking about big city District Attorneys around this country who are saying, ‘no, no, no, no, no, we read the Constitution also. You can't do this.’ This claim was perhaps the most insane conspiracy theory of the many that Taylor pushed during his MS NOW appearance, and was specifically meant to intimidate ICE officers and stop them from doing their jobs. Of course, ICE does not take part in any kind of “illegal voter intimidation.” Their job is to arrest illegal alien criminals and remove them from our streets. Obviously, only American citizens are permitted to vote in our elections. American citizens need not worry about being detained by ICE, unless they are actively obstructing the ICE officers from doing their duty. As Taylor’s severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome reared its ugly head on The 11th Hour, Stephanie Ruhle touted, “Miles, you’re so fired up!” The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: MS NOW's The 11th Hour May 19, 2026 11:18:24 p.m. Eastern (…) STEPHANIE RUHLE: Miles, I would argue the most important part of elections is that they're free and fair. Today, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was pressed on why a DOJ Election Security Task Force was disbanded. Are you concerned about election security this year? MILES TAYLOR: Yeah, deeply concerned. I mean- RUHLE: Or, I should say, how concerned are you? I'm not going to say 'are you,' how concerned on a one to 10? TAYLOR: Off the charts! Off the charts concerned because Donald Trump has already shown us this year his willingness in Fulton County, where Ali was just pointing to it on the board, his willingness to go in and seize ballots. This was the great fear that folks had in 2020. Donald Trump himself said in January that he regrets not sending the National Guard in to seize ballots, when it looked like he was going to lose. A man who admits that is admitting he's willing to commit a crime. So I'm very worried about that.  But here's the thing, that Election Security Task Force that was set up when I was in the first Trump Administration, the whole election security architecture we set up was focused on protecting America against foreign adversaries meddling in our elections, like the Russians in 2016. And to our dismay, that structure we had set up was woefully inadequate, if the person attacking our elections was the president of the United States himself.  Now, I will say, Stephanie, though, that there's not a lack of opposition to what's happening with Donald Trump. In fact, one of the things that we announced today at defiance.org is an effort that we launched called Fight Against Federal Overreach. FAFO. These are local prosecutors across America who announced this morning, if Donald Trump does things like send ICE agents to the polls to intimidate voters, those local prosecutors are going to sue them. They're going to charge them. They're going to put them in jail if they engage in illegal voter intimidation. We're talking about big city District Attorneys around this country who are saying, ‘no, no, no, no, no, we read the Constitution also. You can't do this.’ So folks are stepping up against these things. They're preparing for what the Trump Administration might try to do. RUHLE: Hmm. I thought FAFO stood for something else. I guess I was wrong. Miles, you are so fired up, I’m going to have you - I’m going to ask you to stick around.