Stephen Miller Can Push Racist Crap, but 'The President Has His Back'

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When the Southern Poverty Law Center’s blog Hatewatch revealed on Tuesday that Stephen Miller had pushed racist—and explicitly white-nationalist—content over and over again in 2015 and 2016, President Donald Trump’s senior policy adviser didn’t need any reassurances from his boss or his colleagues that his job was safe. Practically everyone in the building already knew it.

“Stephen is not going anywhere,” a senior White House official said on Tuesday afternoon, shortly after the story started going viral. “The president has his back.”

Since then, six other senior Trump administration officials with knowledge of Miller’s standing with the president and top staffers have all individually told The Daily Beast that the story did not endanger Miller’s position, or change Trump’s favorable view of him. Two of them literally laughed at the mere suggestion that the Hatewatch exposé could have toppled or hobbled the top Trump adviser.

Katie McHugh, a disgraced former Breitbart staffer who provided Hatewatch with the trove of emails, told the blog that Miller had personally flagged for her in July 2015 an American Renaissance “article about crime statistics and race.” American Renaissance is a white-supremacist website beloved by fascists and alt-right adherents. McHugh added, “I responded in the affirmative because I had read it. Many of us [on the far-right] had read it. I remember being struck by the way he called it ‘AmRen,’ the nickname.”

Publicly, the White House has turned to a patently absurd defense of Miller, the president’s White House speechwriter and go-to immigration restrictionist. Several prominent Democrats have denounced Miller or called for his resignation in the wake of the Hatewatch report. On Friday, BuzzFeed reported that Justice Department and Homeland Security officials were trashing the Miller emails as “sickening” proof that the Trump aide is spearheading a racist enterprise and deserves to be ousted from the administration.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-miller-can-push-racist-crap-but-the-president-has-his-back

[Caliman73]

1. This is not surprising.

Trump is a racist. Miller is a racist. Miller hasn't done anything to personally go against Trump and they believe the same things. He isn't going anywhere.

[lame54]

5. Miller kisses Trump's ass on tv...

Imagine how he is in the Whitehouse

There is probably a scheduled hour each day for that purpose

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Just wait until one of them does a hate crime in a state that strongly enforces their hate crimes...

then he can't be pardoned and finally we can nail the assh**e finally and throw him in jail where he so richly deserves to be, being that his racist and bigoted policies got so many families torn apart, so many children thrown into 'prison' camps, or worse. He should be made to suffer what they all suffered. Maybe then, he might treat them like the human beings they are, who are simply searching for a safer home for them and their families.

Where does this hate come from when one talks about the likes of miller?

[RKP5637]

3. Not surprised at all. Stephen Miller is tRump's kind of people. He loves people like this. n/t

[crickets]

4. I despise this man and those who find his potential ouster amusing. Worms. nt