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This guy is everything that is wrong with Trump as they are both extremely narcissistic and driven on impulses without pause or clarity or balanced thinking.. He seems to be the architect of all these terrible policies and actions. Any chance Trump gets rid of him. He needs to go.
How Stephen Miller Stokes Trump’s Boundary-Pushing Impulses
Trump needs to listen to these guys and remove Miller entirely from the immigration push. Let them do what they want. Enforce strategic, targeted illegals that are criminals. No way anyone would have a problem with this.
Yeah. NOTHING shady about that..
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/...trump-2448e779
How Stephen Miller Stokes Trump’s Boundary-Pushing Impulses
Moments after federal officers fatally shot Alex Pretti, his body still lying facedown on an icy Minneapolis street, Customs and Border Protection officials texted Stephen Miller, the White House aide and presidential confidant who framed the government’s response.
While White House communication and policy aides tried to sort out what they knew, what they should say and who would brief President Trump, Miller jumped ahead. Three hours after the shooting, Miller told the world via X that the slain VA nurse was a “domestic terrorist” who had “tried to assassinate federal law enforcement,” a description that set off one of the Trump administration’s biggest political crises of the president’s second term.
None of the language Miller used had been approved or reviewed, said administration officials familiar with the matter. Miller, who shared a photo of the handgun found on Pretti’s hip with White House officials, told colleagues his comments were based on early information.
Not long after Miller’s tweet, Trump posted the photo of the gun on his own social-media post, saying the weapon was loaded and ready to go. “What is that all about?” Trump wrote.
Video footage soon contradicted Miller’s portrayal of Pretti and marked a rare setback for the singularly powerful White House adviser who has shaped many of the president’s most incendiary impulses. Miller has been an architect in almost every boundary-pushing effort in Trump’s second term, according to White House officials familiar with the matter, including immigration sweeps in U.S. cities and the deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean.
While White House communication and policy aides tried to sort out what they knew, what they should say and who would brief President Trump, Miller jumped ahead. Three hours after the shooting, Miller told the world via X that the slain VA nurse was a “domestic terrorist” who had “tried to assassinate federal law enforcement,” a description that set off one of the Trump administration’s biggest political crises of the president’s second term.
None of the language Miller used had been approved or reviewed, said administration officials familiar with the matter. Miller, who shared a photo of the handgun found on Pretti’s hip with White House officials, told colleagues his comments were based on early information.
Not long after Miller’s tweet, Trump posted the photo of the gun on his own social-media post, saying the weapon was loaded and ready to go. “What is that all about?” Trump wrote.
Video footage soon contradicted Miller’s portrayal of Pretti and marked a rare setback for the singularly powerful White House adviser who has shaped many of the president’s most incendiary impulses. Miller has been an architect in almost every boundary-pushing effort in Trump’s second term, according to White House officials familiar with the matter, including immigration sweeps in U.S. cities and the deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean.
Miller was influential in Trump’s first term, but his power has expanded in the second one. He personally drafted or edited every executive order the president signed, and faced little opposition from administration officials to his work to reshape immigration policy. Miller helped come up with the idea to blow up drug boats, officials said, and to deport migrants to a prison in El Salvador using the wartime Alien Enemies Act, an action now under court challenge.
In recent weeks, more Republicans have openly questioned Trump’s immigration strategy and its chief architect. North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis said Trump should fire Miller and Noem, citing their characterization of Pretti as a terrorist. “That is amateur hour at its worst,” he said, adding, “Stephen Miller never fails to live up to my expectations of incompetence.”
Cracks have appeared even in the Oval Office. The president, aware of polls showing that much of his immigration agenda isn’t popular, has told advisers he wasn’t comfortable with how far Miller has gone on some fronts, according to people who have spoken with Trump. The president has said that business officials are calling and complaining to him about longtime workers being thrown out of the country.
After Miller described Pretti as a terrorist and would-be assassin in the hours following the Jan. 24 shooting, Leavitt said at a news briefing that she spoke only for the president, who hadn’t made any such claims. Miller told colleagues he was frustrated by the coverage of the whole episode.
Cracks have appeared even in the Oval Office. The president, aware of polls showing that much of his immigration agenda isn’t popular, has told advisers he wasn’t comfortable with how far Miller has gone on some fronts, according to people who have spoken with Trump. The president has said that business officials are calling and complaining to him about longtime workers being thrown out of the country.
After Miller described Pretti as a terrorist and would-be assassin in the hours following the Jan. 24 shooting, Leavitt said at a news briefing that she spoke only for the president, who hadn’t made any such claims. Miller told colleagues he was frustrated by the coverage of the whole episode.
Early in Trump’s second term, Miller told federal agents in a meeting at the headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that the president was disappointed in their numbers. Miller urged the agents to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens,” without bothering with targeted lists, according to people familiar with the meeting.
Miller’s comments marked the start of a more aggressive enforcement campaign focused on progressive, Democratic Party-led cities. Since the shift, masked and heavily armed federal agents have detained some U.S. citizens and people with legal status in broad immigration sweeps, and, in Minneapolis and elsewhere, drawn street protests and violent confrontations.
While leading daily homeland security-related calls with administration officials, Miller, who frequently stressed the first-year goal of one million deportations, pushed officials to ramp up their numbers according to people familiar with the calls. He demanded 3,000 arrests a day—a number deemed unrealistic by many federal agents—and came up with the idea of offering recruitment bonuses as high as $50,000 for thousands of new ICE agents.
Miller pushed for sweeps at Home Depot and other spots where day workers gather, though Trump has at times been asked to temper raids at businesses. Following immigration arrests in September by federal agents at a Hyundai Motor factory in Georgia, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp called the president and asked for the release of 300 South Korean workers, according to administration officials. The president publicly said he opposed the raid and told Kemp privately that he didn’t know it was happening. He told aides repeatedly that he didn’t want any more sweeps at factories or farms, the officials said.
Miller’s comments marked the start of a more aggressive enforcement campaign focused on progressive, Democratic Party-led cities. Since the shift, masked and heavily armed federal agents have detained some U.S. citizens and people with legal status in broad immigration sweeps, and, in Minneapolis and elsewhere, drawn street protests and violent confrontations.
While leading daily homeland security-related calls with administration officials, Miller, who frequently stressed the first-year goal of one million deportations, pushed officials to ramp up their numbers according to people familiar with the calls. He demanded 3,000 arrests a day—a number deemed unrealistic by many federal agents—and came up with the idea of offering recruitment bonuses as high as $50,000 for thousands of new ICE agents.
Miller pushed for sweeps at Home Depot and other spots where day workers gather, though Trump has at times been asked to temper raids at businesses. Following immigration arrests in September by federal agents at a Hyundai Motor factory in Georgia, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp called the president and asked for the release of 300 South Korean workers, according to administration officials. The president publicly said he opposed the raid and told Kemp privately that he didn’t know it was happening. He told aides repeatedly that he didn’t want any more sweeps at factories or farms, the officials said.
The administration’s immigration push is split between the sweeping measures in line with Miller’s view, and the belief of Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar and Todd Lyons, the ICE director—that agents should target immigrants with criminal histories or final deportation orders.
Miller is known for working longer hours than most anyone at the White House. His office is on the second floor of the West Wing, but he usually floats around the first floor, including the Oval Office. He often speaks in sentences that can seem to stretch for minutes, asking rhetorical questions designed to persuade colleagues to see matters his way. Miller rarely leaves a written trail of his orders, using Signal, an encrypted voice and text-messaging app, to communicate.
Unlike most of his colleagues, Miller has Secret Service protection. He moved his family to a military base after protests outside his Arlington, Va., home. He asked officials at the FBI and Justice Department to investigate protesters, including people who posted his home address online, according to administration officials.
Unlike most of his colleagues, Miller has Secret Service protection. He moved his family to a military base after protests outside his Arlington, Va., home. He asked officials at the FBI and Justice Department to investigate protesters, including people who posted his home address online, according to administration officials.
More recently, Miller has broadened his portfolio beyond immigration to national security. In early January, he boasted on CNN that the U.S. could pursue Trump’s ambitions to control the Arctic with an invasion. “Nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,” Miller said in the TV interview. Other White House officials said they were amazed at the comments, which weren’t authorized by Trump.
In another TV appearance, Miller talked about Venezuela, prompting Trump to ask aides why Miller was speaking. “He doesn’t do foreign policy,” Trump said, according to a senior administration official.
In another TV appearance, Miller talked about Venezuela, prompting Trump to ask aides why Miller was speaking. “He doesn’t do foreign policy,” Trump said, according to a senior administration official.
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