Top WH Aide Stephen Miller Becomes Focus as ‘White Supremacist’ Who’s Blocking Trump Over Immigration on Shutdown Deal
‘A Fascist and a White Supremacist’
Stephen Miller is now the focus of many as the Trump federal government shutdown enters its third day. Miller is President Donald Trump’s senior advisor for policy and is credited with writing many of the president’s speeches, while pushing him ever more to the right.Â
“Every time we have a proposal it is only yanked back by staff members. As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating immigration, we’re going nowhere,” GOP Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters Sunday.
Senator Graham: “As long as Steven Miller is in charge of negotiating immigration we are going no where. He’s been an outlier for years.†pic.twitter.com/6aR42Jeiu7
— Alan He (@alanhe) January 21, 2018
The 32-year old White House aide has reportedly been behind the disintegration of every deal Trump is supposedly agreeing to with Senate Democrats and Republicans. Why? Miller is a hard-line anti-immigration ideologue.
Miller’s background and beliefs have long been the subject of concern, especially among the left. He allegedly has ties to Richard Spencer, the white supremacist who reportedly coined the rebranding of the racist hate ideology into the “alt-right” movement. And he served as then-senator Jeff Sessions’ communications director.
“As an aide on Capitol Hill, he was a behind-the-scenes architect of the successful effort to kill comprehensive immigration reform in 2014,” Politico wrote in a lengthy 2016 profile of Miller.
Monday morning, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough was all over Miller, repeatedly egging on Trump for being overruled by a “32-year old staffer.”
“A 32-year-old aide has shut down the government!†Scarborough at one point said.
“Leaders across the world are seeing how weak an how pathetic this President can be as a leader,” Scarborough railed, clearly egging on Trump for being overruled by Miller. (Video above, at about the 3:20 mark.)
What Scarborough failed to discuss was what others have been saying about Miller: that he’s a white supremacist.
Who’s calling Miller a white supremacist?
Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard law school:
Stephen Miller is a fascist and a white supremacist. Glad @LindseyGrahamSC is candid about finding Miller intolerable. https://t.co/ypYqiiYuTm
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 21, 2018
Film producer, civil rights activist and CEOÂ Michael Skolnik:
Stephen Miller is a white supremacist. The fact that we pay his salary is a stain on our democracy. All members of Congress should refuse to negotiate with him in the room. https://t.co/uAACQQh3aj
— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) January 21, 2018
The Intercept columnist Shaun King:
Here’s the truth about this government shutdown, from a Republican.
White House staff members, particularly resident white supremacist Stephen Miller, are keeping a deal from getting done. https://t.co/aK676JWFbI
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) January 21, 2018
Georgetown University, Vanderbilt University law professor and human rights lawyer Arjun Sethi:
Lindsey Graham just now: “As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating immigration, we’re going nowhere. He’s been an outlier for years.â€
Miller is an avowed Islamophobe & white supremacist. There is no negotiating with people like him. #TrumpShutdown
— Arjun Sethi (@arjunsethi81) January 22, 2018
Writer Thor Benson:
Stephen Miller is a 32-year-old white supremacist who works for Trump and thinks he’s part of a superior race. Bruno Mars is also 32. pic.twitter.com/yA3NRaxnob
— Thor Benson (@thor_benson) January 22, 2018
Attorney and journalism professor Seth Abramson:
What happened between 10AM, when Trump told Sen. Graham he’d compromise on immigration, and noon, when he raged about “shithole” countries? Simple: he talked to a white supremacist by the name of Stephen Miller.
And what came out of that talk was a *racist* immigration policy.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 16, 2018
It’s certainly not the first time the charge has been made. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has called Miller a white supremacist, and Senator Sherrod Brown said Miller certainly “seems to be” a white supremacist.
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