Does Stephen Miller Speak for Trump? Or Vice Versa?
Stephen Millers corner office in the West Wing of the White House is utterly barrenno pictures on the walls, no books on the shelves, no indication even of who inhabited the space a month earlier, before the Obama administration cleared out. Couldnt tell you, Trumps intense and polarizing 31-year-old senior policy adviser says with a shrug. Miller isnt being unfriendly. Rather, his spartan surroundings and indifference to small talk are byproducts of a life pared of every detail that doesnt advance the singular glory of Donald J. Trump. Concerned that Trump wasnt accruing the praise Miller felt was merited, he wanted to set the record straight. Donald Trump has fundamentally realigned American politics, he says, stabbing a finger on his desk. Its time the media acknowledge this and give him the credit he deserves.
Thats not, to put it mildly, the story preoccupying the media right now. Over the last few weeks, Trumps White House has exploded in chaos and infightinga situation Miller exacerbated by helping to mastermind the sudden and much-criticized rollout of Trumps Jan. 27 executive order banning refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries, which federal judges swiftly blocked. In fact, it was no accident that the order was sprung without warning on a Friday afternoon. Trumps chief strategist Steve Bannon arranged the timing in the expectation that opponents, freed from work on the weekend, would stage huge protestsdrawing maximum attention and galvanizing Trump supporters as the president followed through on a controversial campaign promise, says a senior administration official.
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