The White House is defending senior adviser Stephen Miller following newly unearthed emails showing efforts to peddle white nationalist propaganda shortly before he joined the Trump campaign.
On Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center-run blog Hatewatch published a series of emails dated 2015 between Miller, who served as an aide to ex-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) at the time, and former Breitbart writer Katie McHugh that contain links and references to far-right websites focused on immigration and “immigrant crime.”
In a statement obtained by The Hill Saturday, White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley defended Miller and argued that the report demonstrates an anti-Semitic attack by the left.
“I work with Stephen. I know Stephen. He loves this country and hates bigotry in all forms – and it deeply concerns me as to why so many on the left consistently attack Jewish members of this Administration,” Gidley said in a statement obtained by The Hill.
Gidley’s statement comes amid calls from Democratic lawmakers such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) calling for Miller to resign.
Soon after the SPLC’s report broke on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham attacked the SPLC, saying that the organization is “beneath public discussion.”
“We have not seen the report,” she said in a Tuesday statement. “The SPLC, however, is an utterly-discredited, long-debunked far-left smear organization that has recently been forced – to its great humiliation – to issue a major retraction for other wholly fabricated accusations.”
Gidley is a lying dickhead.
(Who happens to look like Alfred E. Newman…)
Of course the Administration will stand behind Stephen Miller, come what may. He is the personification of their core values.
No shit, they’re not disavowing him. The fact that Miller was working as a Nazi before joining Trump’s administration actually makes him one of the most-prepared people in it. I think most Trumpers have had to learn about ethnic cleansing on the job.
If you ignore all the industry lobbyists who were installed atop the agencies they hate, and consider only the Trumpers who are there to fulfill a personal mission of hate or oppression, then Sessions and Miller stand out as some of the most sincere villains. While a lot of Trumpworld consists of butthurt crackpots seeking revenge on the mainstream for rejecting their crackpottery, their banal vendettas pale in comparison to the hate that drives the dedicated race-warriors.
Well, if they are stepping up this way for Miller, his time is short. Of course with him working so tightly with Trump, they may not be able to afford walking away from him.
So, President Miller is merely another misunderstood (read: sympathetic) Jew? You know, like any other average Funktionshäftling.
Damn. I’m gonna need higher chest waders, Hedley.