Stephen Miller Helped Draft Trump's Unhinged Letter, Reports Say

[riversedge]

Source: dailybeast-Reuters


Updated Dec. 18, 2019 6:33AM ET REUTERS

White House lawyers were largely cut out of the drafting of President Trump’s bonkers letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday, according to reports. The New York Times says Trump received help over the past few days from his top policy adviser Stephen Miller, and the process was led by the director of the Office of Legislative Affairs Eric Ueland. Michael Williams, an adviser to Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, is also reported to have been involved. However, according to the Times, Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel who will play a big role in the imminent Senate trial, was not involved in the drafting of the letter. Michael Waldman, a speechwriter to President Bill Clinton during his impeachment, said: “Typically a president’s words are weighed very carefully, especially at a moment of constitutional significance... This just seemed to be a chance to change the news stories for a few hours and get it off his chest.” Trump sent the letter a day before the House is scheduled to vote on whether to impeach him on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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As someone said on a msnbc panal last night--Can you imagine what the first draft was like.

I did read most of it---but got bored--lots of stuff he already ranted about.

Link to tweet

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[Mike 03]

1. That's what most surprised me: to learn there had been multiple drafts. That letter

sat around for five or six days. It did seem "cleaned up" but it sounded dictated and rattled off on the first go, with Trump's simple words replaced by slightly more complex words and repetitions scratched out.

[Initech]

23. Yeah that's the version they went with.

I wonder what's in the uncut and uncensored version?

[Collimator]

2. Well, of course, he did.

The letter was long and parts of it were coherent. We all knew there was a second hand guiding the pen. Given the tone of particularly aggrieved whininess, it had to be Miller. "I'm expected to pick up my own trash?! Egregious!"

I'm only surprised that the letter didn't accuse the Democrats of calumny.

[Scarsdale]

4. When will the

white supremacist be fired? Did he have to interrupt his honeymoon to write this tripe?

[Collimator]

7. Honestly, of all of them. . .

Miller is the one who really scares me. There is real intelligence there; the rest of them are too obvious in their efforts and come across as buffoons. The others are older as well; their supporters are mainly older people with calcified minds who don't want to be pushed out of their comfort zones.

Miller can appeal to younger zealots who are more than willing to be pushed past the comfort zone of passive prejudice and actively--violently--oppress others.

[dem4decades]

14. Don't confuse viciousness with intelligence, he's a dope.

[Botany]

3. We are dealing with a really sick mind in Miller. Tell me he doesn't resemble Goebbels?

[Grokenstein]

5. He does, and not just physically

[dalton99a]

18. +1

[NurseJackie]

21. More images to compare...

[silverweb]

26. Uncanny.

That's enough to spur renewed interest in reincarnation, isn't it?

[yardwork]

32. Seems deliberate. Miller seems to have studied Goebbels and is imitating him.

[Mike 03]

6. Back in the day, a Rex Tillerson or Gary Cohn would have quietly

stuffed that letter into a Burn Bag, or "misplaced" it in the White House trash room.

[riversedge]

9. umm. I wonder if they would.

[bitterross]

8. Well, seems my guess was correct.

I posted this yesterday:

Sounds more like Stephen Miller wording.

I suspect Trump's favorite racist helped with this. The first paragraph alone was enough to determine Trump didn't write that letter. He probably insisted on some edits but he didn't write it.

Sounds like stuff Miller would write.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12790981

It's not like that was all that tough to guess. If you just thought about how Miller came across in any TV interview you could see his hand in that letter.

[Perseus]

10. Which proves Miller is not very smart, he is just very evil.

I can picture the two infantile evil creatures writing the letter together, just like two little evil creature patting themselves in the back after every sentence.

I do hope Karma is true and Miller gets his.

[Martin Eden]

11. "Can you imagine what the first draft was like"

It was written in crayon.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Helped? Miller Helped?

He wrote everything but the Sharpie signature.

[usaf-vet]

13. Stephen Miller is one sick f**k. And 45 is a deranged idiot. Put those two together and you get.....

.... this f**king idiotic unhinged screed.

[thesquanderer]

15. re: "already ranted about" - "You've seen the tweets... Now read the novel!" (n/t)

[IronLionZion]

16. Unhinged helping the unhinged

Since there were multiple drafts and the final version was bonkers, this proves Stephen Miller is unqualified to be a policy adviser. Dude needs to be fired.

[Paladin]

17. I keep imagining Stephen Miller, wandering around the White House...

...in a black SS uniform. It's like an historian said about Himmler: Hitler has nightmares, Himmler makes them come true.

[Turbineguy]

19. In all fairness

he only supplied the big words.

[MarianJack]

20. Stephen Miller,...

...AKA the Jewish Nazi.

RESIST!

[Fiendish Thingy]

22. Was there any doubt?

I want to see Miller booed off Dancing With The Stars as an appetizer to the karma he will get for the rest of his life.

[MurrayDelph]

24. He'd never last on the show

when he only knows the Goose Step.

[Initech]

25. Fuck that, I want to see Miller take the perp walk to Supermax where he belongs.

Along with the rest of this wretched, crooked administration.

[riversedge]

30. I will pass on watching the creep Miller dance!!

[barbtries]

27. i had assumed that.

i think the mark of miller is the historical references and the over the top hyperbole. in interviews that's how he talks. he's like trump, but literate.

the whole letter is upside down, backward, opposite world projection.

miller is a nazi.

[Baked Potato]

28. When they break out a Miller Manifesto

You know they’re really serious.

Lol.

[Gothmog]

29. Who is surprised by this?

It was clear that no lawyer touched this letter

[SKKY]

31. Knowing he went to an excellent University like Duke, but still writes like a 5th grader...

...I feel much, much better about my University of Maryland education.

[They_Live]

33. Trash

[Blue Owl]

34. It was going to be a ransom note...

But Miller ate all the glue...