Donald Trump is freezing out top adviser Stephen Miller after he devised one of the most glaring missteps of the president’s second term, according to a bombshell new report.
Miller, ostensibly the second-in-command to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, has been Trump’s point man on immigration for a decade. During Trump’s first term, he cooked up the idea to separate migrant children from their mothers at the U.S. border, and this term, he pushed hard for 3,000 daily ICE arrests, as well as inflaming dangerous rhetoric against protesters.
Trump has since spoken about Miller’s propensity to “sometimes go too far,” according to White House advisers who spoke to The Atlantic.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has publicly adopted a different tone and privately lobbied for a push away from the Home Depot raids that set the tone for the apparently-shelved Miller-led immigration crackdown. “My goal in six months is that we’re not in the lead story every single day,” Mullin said when the Senate confirmed him in March.
Despite White House Communications Director Steven Cheung’s protestations that “the president loves Stephen,” the shift away from his inflammatory rhetoric and hardline approach has been undeniable.
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