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. 

“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.

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:

Film producer, civil rights activist and CEO Michael Skolnik:

The Intercept columnist Shaun King:

Georgetown University, Vanderbilt University law professor and human rights lawyer Arjun Sethi:

Writer Thor Benson:

Attorney and journalism professor Seth Abramson:

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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