The stoning of Stephen Miller, now running the Trump White House
When Donald Trump made the stunning announcement that Stephen Miller is his new chief of staff –preempting the New York Times by a few minutes–I literally said: "Watch for a barrage of negative Miller stories in the next couple of days." I was wrong.
Key points
- He said Trump is "the most transformative political leader" in our history and has "single-handedly saved America from those who would destroy it." A day after the election, Miller led a call about pushing forward with mass deportations and, the Times reports….
- Trump." Miller also unleashed the military, "pitting masked, heavily armed immigration agents against residents of cities like Minneapolis and Chicago." Fact-check: True.
- My purpose here is not to either defend or criticize Miller, who has been one of Trump’s most powerful aides since the first term.
Trump’s second term." The conservative Federalist cited a past Miller comment on mass deportations: "At every turn illegal aliens have always been treated better than Americans." And then there are the Democrats.
Additional details
- I cannot remember this kind of all-out artillery attack, seconds after a top White House appointment was announced.
- The demonic Trump conjured an American hell." Miller hasn’t exactly stayed silent.
- refugee programs; the widespread pressure campaign against American universities; extrajudicial boat strikes that have killed hundreds; and purges of officials deemed insufficiently loyal to Mr.
- Miller is, without question, one of the hardest of hardliners.
- "Those include separation of migrant families at the border; the 2017 Muslim travel ban, directing the government to stifle critics of Mr.
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