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'He's miscalculating': Ex-Republican flags how to 'escape' a 'bloodthirsty' Stephen Miller

We will "escape" U.S. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller in part because he has made a miscalculation, according to a former Republican.

New York Times columnist David French, a former writer for the conservative National Review, said in a podcast interview Saturday, "I think the bottom line we're actually not as bad as a country as someone like Stephen Miller is counting on," and then added, "But we are not as good of a country as we thought we were before the Trump era."

He added, "That's why we were vulnerable to him, and why we're also, hopefully, able to escape him."

"The Stephen Millers of the world want us to be as bloodthirsty as he imagines Americans to be, but I think he's miscalculating," French stated.

The analyst then called Miller a "ruthless politician" and said there are enough "bloodthirsty" Americans to do real damage to the nation.

'Who's Melanie?' Stephen Miller's wife makes awkward mistake trying to defend first lady

The wife of top Trump advisor and Trump administration immigration policy architect Stephen Miller made an awkward mistake Friday while trying to defend First lady Melania Trump and attack a Democrat.

Conservative podcaster and Elon Musk employee Katie Miller was trying to defend the First lady's English skills and say she was a "good" immigrant compared to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who is also an immigrant, when she referred to her as "Melanie" in a now-deleted post on X, The Daily Beast reported.

“Melanie Trump loves her country and has devoted her life to serving it,” Miller wrote. “You can’t say the same for Ilhan Omar who openly hates America and laughs off the theft of a billion dollars by her own Somali people.”

After the post, people started asking X, "Who's Melanie?"

Miller was apparently trying to respond to a Thursday post on X from a progressive influencer, Alex Cole. Cole had written this: “Ilhan Omar speaks MUCH better English than Melania. Just sayin.”

Omar has faced multiple attacks from President Donald Trump and within the administration. Last week the president called her "garbage" and attacked the Somali American community in Minnesota — the area and many of the people she represents.

Melania has had her name misspelled before. Her own husband did the same in 2018 calling her "Melanie" following her return from a hospital after she underwent a kidney procedure, CNN reported.

Stephen Miller skewered as US national security strategy 'prepares for the wrong danger'

The Trump administration's new National Security Strategy has altered how the U.S. conducts itself to protect Americans — and with major influence from Stephen Miller, it has shifted a major focus on how it views its relationship with China and Russia instead of new threats from the countries.

Trump's inner circle has shifted its attention to "preparing for the wrong dangers and in denial about genuine threats," according to a new report published Monday in The Atlantic, written by Thomas Wright, senior director for strategic planning at the National Security Council during the Biden administration.

Wright described why the U.S. relationship with China has changed.

"With an operation by a group that the U.S. government labeled Salt Typhoon, China has compromised U.S. telecommunications networks and can now listen to calls or read text messages by any American it chooses. If you feel like your communications might be of interest to the Chinese Communist Party, you should be using only encrypted apps for messaging and calls," Wright wrote.

Under another operation, Volt Typhoon, China has reportedly penetrated water-supply plans, electricity grids, and transportation, Wright explained. If a war breaks out between the two countries, the results could be a destructive cyberattack on American infrastructure.

Threats from Russia also loom, he added.

"Meanwhile, according to the U.S. Intelligence Community’s 2025 threat assessment, Russia 'is developing a new satellite meant to carry a nuclear weapon as an antisatellite capability,' which, if detonated, 'could cause devastating consequences for the United States, the global economy, and the world in general,'" Wright wrote.

Wright cited that the Trump administration has shown an interest in "building an illiberal world order" and "less concern for the American homeland."

At the center of that change is Stephen Miller, the Trump administration's immigrant policy architect and Homeland Security advisor.

"None of these direct threats to the American homeland are even mentioned in Trump’s NSS. The strategy therefore does not explain what the government, Congress, and the private sector should do to fix these vulnerabilities. Instead, it makes one general reference to the need for 'a resilient national infrastructure that can withstand natural disasters' and 'resist and thwart foreign threats,'" Wright added.

"This neglect is reflected in the administration’s actions," he explained. "Last week, the Financial Times reported that the Trump administration, intent on smoothing the way for a state visit to China in April 2026, drew back its plan to impose sanctions on China’s Ministry of State Security over its cyberattacks on the telecommunications system. The story named Stephen Miller—the White House homeland-security adviser, of all things—as responsible for ensuring that no actions are taken that could threaten U.S.-China détente."

'This is vile!' House GOP melts down after Dem lawmaker compares Trump official to Nazis

Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee melted down Sunday in defense of a top White House official, who Rep. Illhan Omar (D-MN) compared to “Nazis” earlier on CBS News.

Omar was asked to comment on a recent social media post made by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller in which he warned that “migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.”

“When I think about Stephen Miller and his white supremacist rhetoric, it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany,” Omar said.

Her comments, a video of which was shared on social media, quickly drew the attention of the official X account for the House Judiciary Committee’s GOP coalition

“Stephen Miller is Jewish,” reads the post from the House Judiciary Committee’s GOP coalition. “This is vile.”

Miller has made a number of other controversial statements that critics have labeled as racist or xenophobic, with a resolution even being filed in Congress labeling Miller as a “white nationalist.”

Miller’s wife, Katie Miller, has leaned into her Jewish faith when deflecting criticism of her husband, perhaps most notably during an explosive recent appearance on journalist Piers Morgan’s show.

During the episode, political commentator Cenk Uygur criticized Miller, saying that it was “very normal for a Miller to be completely and utterly lying.” Katie Miller immediately conflated being called a liar with an antisemitic attack, calling it “racist bigoted rhetoric."

After Uygur called Katie Miller a “weirdo” for invoking her children and her Jewish faith, which he argued had no relevance to his criticism, Katie Miller subtly threatened to have Uygur – a naturalized U.S. citizen from Turkey – deported.

Stephen Miller is Jewish. This is vile. https://t.co/Hv1VwsdSUW
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) December 7, 2025

Stephen Miller bashed for pushing restrictions that 'are no longer on the books'

A law professor bashed Stephen Miller for pushing discriminatory immigration restrictions in America that have long been gone.

Miller, the Trump administration's immigrant policy architect and Homeland Security Advisor, has tried to revive "nationality-based discrimination" policies that formally embarrassed the United States, Amanda Frost, a University of Virginia law professor who specializes in immigration law, wrote in an opinion piece for The New York Times published Friday.

The Trump administration announced that it has "indefinitely" stopped immigration policies for all Afghan nationals after a Nov. 26 National Guard shooting involving an Afghan suspect who shot two troops — one fatally — in Washington, D.C.

Frost slammed Miller's harsh immigration policy and described how it harkened to the "nativist fervor culminated in 1924 with the Immigration Act," which aimed to try and slow down immigration from countries that were deemed "undesirable." It capped immigration to make it 2% of the nationality's population in the U.S. in 1890.

"It proved impossible to unwind Americans’ tangled ancestry, but no matter. The law was used to justify giving the majority of visas to Northern and Western Europeans, while strictly limiting immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe — a change celebrated by the Ku Klux Klan for keeping out Catholics and Jews. The door remained almost entirely closed to people from Asia and Africa," Frost wrote.

Miller has appeared to make a similar move in his response to immigration.

"Mr. Miller and others in the Trump administration do not appear to know that those 1924 immigration restrictions are no longer on the books. Abolishing national origin discrimination was a sea change in law that stands alongside the Voting Rights Act as one of our most important pieces of civil rights legislation," Frost explained. "That 1965 law allocated visas based primarily on family reunification and an applicant’s ability to contribute to the labor market. Every immigrant is individually vetted, and immigration is capped worldwide, but no longer are any nationalities automatically restricted."

The writer argued that the suspect should be investigated and punished if he is found guilty of the attack.

"But collective punishment is just the sort of bigotry that the nation rejected decades ago," Frost added.

"It’s also likely to be illegal. As the Supreme Court explained when upholding Mr. Trump’s first travel ban back in 2018, the president has statutory authority to suspend entry into the United States based on national origin, at least for some period of time. But that does not permit him to deny visas, cancel green cards or denaturalize immigrants based on nothing more than their country of origin," Frost wrote.

‘Not an accident’: Stephen Miller uses Guard shooting for grim immigration regime shift

President Donald Trump has announced a dramatic shift in his immigration policy — something White House adviser Stephen Miller has reportedly been pushing for behind the scenes.

The move follows the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington D.C. Wednesday and is part of a long-term strategy for Miller, who has long voiced he wanted a more aggressive approach to immigration and increased deportations, Tamara Keith, NPR White House Correspondent, said on CNN Friday.

"This is very much in line with the way that the president and people in his administration, people like Stephen Miller, have been talking about immigration. President Trump in his remarks on Wednesday night brought up Somalia. That is not an accident. That is something that the president has been focused on recently and that he is emphasizing," Keith said.

"You look at refugee policies where the White House wants to bring in white people from South Africa, who they say are being persecuted. They don't want to bring in other refugees. The refugee program has been severely restricted under the Trump administration already," Keith added.

As Trump's approval rating has sunk, his administration has shifted their attention to immigration.

"In a lot of ways, this is a terrible event that has given them a sort of a peg, to do the things they were already doing or wanted to do," Keith said. "And it does come at a time when the president's approval rating is in a really bad place, including on immigration, but this is a realm of immigration that he has had more traction than some of the other areas."

Trump on Thursday made the announcement that he had ordered U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement to review every Green Card holder “from every country of concern,” a list of 19 countries his administration named in June.

Those 19 countries include Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

‘Everyone is being screamed at’: Insiders say Stephen Miller irate as deportations lagging

Insiders are saying the Department of Homeland Security's ICE hiring is in "chaos" and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller is reportedly angry over "lagging" deportation numbers.

A DHS source told The Daily Beast on Monday that President Donald Trump's push to "throw money around" while "panic at the top of government” has unfolded with Miller's disappointment over agents not reaching Trump's goal of 3,000 deportations per day.

“There are calls with Miller, where everyone is being screamed at,” the official told The Beast. “The targets he is setting for them are ridiculous, and it is a case of them just spending any money they can to increase the number of officers and deportations.”

Hiring within the agency has also presented other problems — agents joining before badges, system access or guns are available. Some say the money offer is luring veteran agents back and "insiders claim that the crash program has led to disorder, with some veteran agents performing minimal work for substantial pay and ballooning costs."

Former executive-level leaders from HSI and Enforcement and Removal Operations have returned to the agency, "some of them taking home north of $250,000 for office-based shiftwork, per multiple sources who spoke to the Beast," the outlet reports.

“It has just been going so fast that the process is messed up. It has been chaotic to handle. Make no mistake, it is a s--tshow right now," one HSI veteran told The Beast.

Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, has claimed that many of the new agents would be law enforcement returnees.

However, according to several insiders, several former senior employees have returned to the federal pay scale.

"With locality pay in high-cost areas—such as parts of Texas, California, and New York—adding 35 percent or more to a basic salary, agents can earn up to $137,000 in the majority of the country. This rises to $171,268 in more expensive parts of the country, such as San Jose and San Francisco," The Beast reports.

Sources say that overtime pay has also added to the high paychecks, in addition to "ongoing federal pensions worth around $8,000–$9,000 a month, and some rehires can land well in excess of a quarter of a million annually."

Trump official accuses judge of supporting doxing of Stephen Miller in panicked meltdown

A senior White House official is accusing a federal judge of supporting the doxing of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, lashing out at the judge with comments made to Axios, the outlet reported Friday.

Barbara Wien, an activist and professor at American University in Washington, D.C., was targeted by the Justice Department this week after she allegedly posted a flyer that included Miller’s likeness, the phrase “NO NAZIS IN NOVA,” and Miller’s home address. The DOJ pushed for courts to approve its petition for a warrant to seize Wien’s phone, but were rejected late Wednesday night by Magistrate Judge Lindsey Vaala.

Wien, who’s not been charged with a crime, has maintained her innocence through her attorney, and the Trump administration has turned its sights on Vaala.

"The position of the judge and the justice system in Northern Virginia is, Stephen Miller deserves this, so it shouldn't be investigated," said a senior Trump official, speaking with Axios on the condition of anonymity in the outlet’s report Friday. "This is just about gathering evidence to see if there should be an arrest. And the judges are blocking it."

Another White House official railed against the criminal justice system over Vaala’s denial of the DOJ’s warrant request, and despite the White House having wielded enormous influence over the criminal justice system during President Donald Trump’s second term in office.

"A lot of administration officials feel it's a problem that you have to live in Virginia or D.C. or Maryland,” a White House official told Axios, also speaking on the condition of anonymity. “But the criminal justice system will not protect you and your family.”

According to Wien’s attorney, Bradley Haywood, law enforcement has already taken his client’s phone, and are now hoping to have a judge approve their request to search through it. Haywood called the seizure of Wien’s phone as unlawful, and accused the DOJ of violating his client’s “protected speech.”

"No charges have been brought,” Haywood told Axios. “No subsequent search warrants have been sought or been issued. State police are unlawfully holding this property."

'If you interrupt me': Judge snaps at DHS lawyer over Stephen Miller's secret orders

A judge humiliated a Department of Homeland Security lawyer, saying "If you interrupt me one more time..." after he tried to shut down the judge's questions about Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller's involvement in ICE operations and secret commands he may have handed Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, according to reports Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis got testy with Justice Department attorney Sarmad Khojasteh last week in the case examining use of force by immigration agents in ICE's "Operation Midway Blitz," according to court records obtained by The Chicago Tribune.

"If you interrupt me one more time… It’s enough. It’s enough," said Ellis, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama.

She ruled that specific questions about Miller's communications with Bovino were fair if it was connected to the field directives for agents and the use of force.

Ellis also called out Khojasteh, who apologized for being new at the trial, and expressed her annoyance.

“This is the problem when... we’ve got a revolving door of attorneys and they haven’t been here for the entire thing,” Ellis said to Khojasteh. “They haven’t sat through people’s testimony, they haven’t sat through these hearings, and so now I’m having to explain myself multiple times. And I find it at this point extremely frustrating and a waste of time.”

Miller, President Donald Trump's right hand and policy Chief of Staff, "is widely seen as the architect of the administration’s hard-line deportation tactics, and was behind its reported target of 3,000 daily immigration arrests," The Daily Beast reports.

In Bovino's deposition, Ellis questioned Miller's influence on aggressive immigration policies as Khojasteh reportedly cut her off multiple times during the questioning.

“For example, questions about communications with Mr. Miller may be perfectly within bounds if they talked about, ‘This is how I want this operation to go,’” Ellis said.

“If Mr. Miller said that to Mr. Bovino and that was in Mr. Bovino’s mind as to justify the force being used, they can ask about that,” she said.

Ellis said that as Bovino led the charge to push immigration arrests — his actions and the ones who ordered them were also subject to questioning — referring to “what he is telling agents and officers is the appropriate use of force out in the field.”

An injunction hearing slated for Wednesday is expected to determine more permanent limits on force from ICE agents.

'Nazi streak, broken': Insider says Trump official got a 'rare win' against Stephen Miller

Stephen Miller just got a rare loss, according to conservative strategist Rick Wilson, who cited an insider.

Former GOP strategist Wilson, who recently said he might depose Trump in a lawsuit and force the president to explain his ties to the deceased child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, on Friday wrote about a "Nazi streak" being "broken."

Specifically, Wilson was talking about Paul Ingrassia, Trump's controversial pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel who withdrew from consideration after a series of bombshell scandals that rendered Republican senators unwilling to advance his nomination.

In celebration, Wilson wrote, "Nazi Streak, Broken."

"Take the win: Paul Ingrassia, the egregious Nazi streak s---bird Trump nominated to serve as the head of the Office of Special Counsel, has withdrawn his nomination," Wilson wrote on Friday.

He added, "An insider tells me this was a rare win for Susie Wiles vs. Stephen Miller inside the White House, and that she was the architect of Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other GOP Senators publicly denouncing Ingrassia."

Read the Substack piece here.