Stephen Miller

5 Ways Stephen Miller Grew Up To Be Trump’s Inauguration Speechwriter

... High School. Daniel J. Solomon December 27, 2016. No habla Espanol por favor. He took special issue with the school’s multicultural outreach, bemoaning the Spanish language announcements and the school festivals celebrating minorities’ food and culture. Miller wrote articles describing the Spanish announcements as “a crutch … preventing Spanish speakers from standing on their own” and took his case to the school board, where he showed up in a suit and tie arguing against special treatment for immigrants. Latino students heard Miller lecture them on how they would be better served improving their English than creating clubs based on ethnicity. Gun rights got Miller hooked on right wing politics. Miller grew up in a Jewish Democratic house and turned to conservatism, and then extreme conservatism, almost by chance. He began reading Guns and Ammo magazine where he found interest in the writings of Wayne La Pierre, leader of the National Rifle Association. “The conservative ideas were like nothing he had ever ...

From Sessions' Aide To Trump's Inner Circle

... 2010. "It would add millions of newly authorized workers at a time when Americans are struggling with high unemployment and recession.". Besides being a conduit between the senator and the media, Miller also played a role on policy matters; he was instrumental in helping Sessions derail the Gang of Eight immigration reform bill in 2014 that would have given illegals a pathway to citizenship. Miller helped put together a briefing book for Republicans filled with talking points and data to bolster their case. "We had been working on the ideas in it for months, and Stephen put it in the handbook in a very quick time in a very cogent fashion," Sessions told Politico. "It was very timely and it impacted the outcome of the vote.". Boyd said Miller's involvement on policy was unusual for a communications staffer. "It is rare, ...

Scarborough Singles Out Trump Aide Stephen Miller For 'power Trip

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How A Liberal Santa Monica High School Produced A Top Trump Advisor And Speechwriter

... and Sean Spicer, incoming White House press secretary, at Trump Tower in New York. Drew Angerer/Getty Images. Stephen Miller, senior policy advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, and Sean Spicer, incoming White House press secretary, at Trump Tower in New York. Stephen Miller, senior policy advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, and Sean Spicer, incoming White House press secretary, at Trump Tower in New York. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images). Those days were a dress rehearsal for his time at Duke, where he backed lacrosse players in a racially charged rape case that was eventually dropped, and then in the Trump campaign, where he helped shaped policies, including its stance on illegal immigration. In a 2002 letter to the editor of a Santa Monica news website, Miller bemoaned “the rampant political correctness” at Samohi, including condom giveaways and Spanish-language announcements ...

Trump Ban Fast Start Was For National Security

... coming from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen, involved the Department of Homeland Security's determination that it would not apply to people holding green cards, which allows them lawful permanent residence, reports CNN. The White House though, with an inner circle led by Miller and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, overruled DHS overnight, saying that the decision to allow entry would be allowed on a case-by-case basis. "One hundred and seventy people applied for green card waivers overseas," said Miller. "Be clear, these are people who already have green cards, not people applying for new green cards. That policy has been consistent from the beginning.". Miller blamed the media for showing confusion, but "the reality is that internally we have honored every request for admission for individuals who have green cards from overseas.". There were 109 people already traveling when Trump's order was issued, said Miller, and it was important to roll out the new rules quickly. "If you announce in five days or ten days these countries will become travel restricted ...

Trump's Immigration Fiasco Might Be More Premeditated Than We Think

... this, the smart money is usually on incompetence, not malice. But this looks more like deliberate malice to me. Bannon wanted turmoil and condemnation. He wanted this executive order to get as much publicity as possible. He wanted the ACLU involved. He thinks this will be a PR win. Liberals think the same thing. All the protests, the court judgments, the press coverage: this is something that will make middle America understand just what Trump is really all about. And once they figure it out, they'll turn on him. In other words, both sides think that maximum exposure is good for them. Liberals think middle America will be appalled at Trump's callousness. Bannon thinks middle America will be appalled that lefties and the elite media are taking the side of terrorists. After a week of skirmishes, this is finally a hill that both sides are willing to die for. Who's going ...

Travel Ban Is The Clearest Sign Yet Of Trump Advisors' Intent To Reshape The Country

... Week” on Sunday that Trump is simply trying to “streamline” decision-making and cut bureaucracy. “He's got a tremendous understanding of the world and the geopolitical landscape that we have now,” Spicer said of Bannon, noting that he is a former naval officer and adding that it’s only right for the president’s top strategist to “come in and talk about what the strategy is going forward.”. Bannon’s and Miller’s increasing power potentially portends a new era of political calculus being applied to decisions on how to deploy American spies and soldiers overseas. Former President George W. Bush kept his powerful strategist Karl Rove out of the Situation Room, where National Security Council meetings are usually held, Joshua Bolten, a White House chief of staff under Bush, said at a conference in September at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas. “The signal he wanted to send to the rest of his administration, the signal he wanted to send to the public, and ...

What Is Stephen Miller’s Job, Anyway

... man, who during the campaign enjoyed warming up crowds for the boss. He grins at the podium, he savors the crowd’s reactions, even if they periodically boo him for not turning the stage over to Trump fast enough. “All the anger right underneath the surface just waiting to come through, about what I don’t know,” says a former staffer with the Republican leadership on the Hill. “I’ve seen the videos of him getting the crowd fired up. People that knew him when he was on the Hill, I don’t know how to describe the reactions people had to the videos of him. Maybe creeped out a little bit? Like, what’s going to happen when this guy gets the power?” He pauses as a thought dawns on him. “Oh my God,” he says. “He’s going to find out that I spoke with you and I’m going to end up in a camp somewhere.”. It’s not so funny any more, is it. In any event, nobody has yet explained what a near-adolescent speechwriter and policy adviser was doing during the first week of the Trump presidency essentially firing off instructions to U. S. diplomatic and customs officials around the world and touching the lives of thousands of real-live people. ...

White House Divided On Protecting Dreamers

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Fallout Over Immigration Order Reveals White House, Gop Rifts

... defense, worried many in the national security community. Also concerning was language suggesting that the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff could only attend certain Principals Committee meetings. But Spicer told reporters Monday that Trump was revising the directive to also include the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. And he insisted that the DNI and Joint Chiefs chairman would be included in any Principals Committee meeting they wish to attend. The confusion out of the White House about the president's intentions left some of the government's most decorated officials scrambling to assert their relevance. Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, took the unusual step of issuing a statement to emphasize that he will "fully participate" in giving the president military advice. "I remain honored and humbled to represent the extraordinary men and women of the ...