Nielsen’s Resignation Lifts Curtain On Miller’s Campaign To Stack Admin With Hardliners

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DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s resignation Sunday provides a window into White House senior adviser Stephen Miller’s campaign to replace more moderate voices — like Nielsen — with immigration hardliners at the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice and State.

According to a Sunday Politico report, while it is unclear how much direct influence Miller had over Nielsen’s ouster, he has been contacting lower-level officials and threatening them to staunch the flow of immigrants across the border, or else.

In one example, Miller reportedly had a hand in the abrupt pulling of ICE chief candidate Ronald Vitiello’s nomination Friday after Vitiello expressed ambivalence about closing down the U.S.-Mexico border.

“There’s definitely a larger shakeup abreast being led by Stephen Miller and the staunch right wing within the administration,” a person close to Nielsen told Politico. “They failed with the courts and with Congress and now they’re eating their own.”

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  1. If Nielsen is a moderate, I shudder to think of who her replacement may be. I heard her interviewed on TV once and the radio once, and all I could hear when she spoke was the coldness in her voice. No kindness, no empathy, really no soul at all.

  2. Avatar for jouzu jouzu says:

    If Joyce were to write a novel about Miller set in DC it’d be called: a portrait of a zealot as a bald man.

  3. A sociopath is a term used to describe someone who has antisocial personality disorder (ASPD).

    Miller is a sociopath.

  4. “Trump-N-Furter, it’s all over
    Your mission is a failure
    Your lifestyle’s too extreme
    I’m your new commander
    You now are my prisoner
    We return to Trump Tower
    Prepare the transit beam…”

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