Stephen Miller, Channeling Trump, Has Built More Power Than Ever

Stephen Miller was the architect of Donald J. Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda in his first term. Now he is back with fewer internal rivals and even more influence with the president.1/4

Jan. 16, 2025 Updated 8:23 p.m. ET

When Stephen Miller met with Mark Zuckerberg at Mar-a-Lago late last year, the39-year-old Trump adviser was in a position of power that would have been unimaginable a decade ago.

Back then, Mr. Miller was a mere Senate staffer railing about the evils of immigration. Now he was holding forth on U.S. policy with the billionaire chief executive of Meta, a man he had vilified for years as a globalist bent on destroying the nation.

The scale had flipped.

Mr. Miller told Mr. Zuckerberg that he had an opportunity to help reform America, but it would be on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s terms. He made clear that Mr. Trump would crack down on immigration and go to war against the diversity, equity and inclusion, or D.E.I., culture that had been embraced by Meta and much of corporate America in recent years.

Mr. Zuckerberg was amenable. He signaled to Mr. Miller and his colleagues, including other senior Trump advisers,that he would do nothing to obstruct the Trump agenda, according to three people with knowledge of the meeting, who asked for anonymity to discuss a private conversation.

Mr. Zuckerberg said he would instead focus solely on building tech products. Mr. Zuckerberg blamed his former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, for an inclusivity initiative at Facebook that encouraged employees’ self-expression in the workplace, according to one of the people with knowledge of the meeting.He said new guidelinesand a series of layoffs amounted to a reset and that more changes were coming.

Earlier this month, Mr. Zuckerberg’s political lieutenants previewed the changes to Mr. Miller in a private briefing.And on Jan. 10, Mr. Zuckerberg made them official: Meta would abolish its D.E.I. policy.

The meeting at Mar-a-Lago on Nov. 27 represented more than just another tech billionaire bending the knee to Mr. Trump. It vividly demonstrated the power and influence of Mr. Miller, who in less than a decade has risen from an anti-immigrant agitator on Capitol Hillto one of the most powerful unelected people in America.

Mr. Miller was influential in Mr. Trump’s first term but stands to be exponentially more so this time.He holds the positions of deputy chief of staff, with oversight of domestic policy, and homeland securityadviser, which gives him range to coordinate among cabinet agencies. He will be a key legislative strategist and is expected to play an important role in crafting Mr. Trump’s speeches, as he has done since he joined the first Trump campaign in 2016.

Most significantly, Mr. Miller will be in charge of Mr. Trump’s signature issue and the one that Mr. Miller has been fixated on since childhood:immigration. And he has been working, in secrecy, to oversee the team drafting the dozens of executive orders that Mr. Trump will sign after he takes office on Jan. 20.

“I call Stephen ‘Trump’s brain,’”said Kevin McCarthy, the former House speaker who credited Mr. Miller — a private citizen at the time — with helping to rally Republican lawmakers to insert a sweeping border crackdown into a spending bill in 2023.

In the four years since Mr. Trump has been out of office, Mr.Miller has spent more time than any close Trump advisermapping out a second-term playbook. He expanded on the hard-line first-term immigration policies; he deepened his relationships with House members, senators and influential right-wing media figures; he built a nationwide donor network to fund a nonprofit that he used as an additional tool of influence; and he quietlycultivated a relationship with the richest man in the world, Elon Musk.

Mr. Millerwill re-enter government with even more trust and credibility with the president, fewer internal rivals and a more expansive team reporting to him. Those who dealt with — and often dismissed — Mr. Miller a decade ago when he was a young Senate staffer, emailing reporters late at night on behalf of Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, with lurid stories about immigrants committing crimes,can hardly believe the scope of his power.

Taking Charge

After Mr.Trump wonthe election in November, Mr. Millermoved his family down to Palm Beach, Fla., and took a major rolein the transition.

(Is this a sign Trump will be at Mar A Lago than DC.? If Bidan can do it, staying Reheboth 60% of his, Trump can do and the Press can STFU)

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People briefed on the executive orders that his team is drafting say they include an attempt to end birthright citizenship; a designation of drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations; and a reinstatement of Title 42, which allows the United States to seal the border with Mexico if there is a public health threat. (Mr. Trump’s advisers have spent months trying to identify a disease that will help them build a case for Title 42, since there is no such emergency at the moment.)

It will be up to Mr. Trump to decide which orders to issue, but Mr. Miller is focused on immigration. The homeland security adviser’s other responsibilities includedealing with natural disasterslike the one raging in California, his home state. (The fires destroyed Mr. Miller’s parents’ home, people close to him said.) Mr. Miller is expected to shift some of his portfolio to the national security adviser.

As he works out his priorities, Mr. Millerappears to have learned two key lessons from the first Trump term.

The first is to flood the zone. He believes that those he regards as Mr. Trump’s enemies — Democrats, the media, groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and portions of the federal bureaucracy — are depleted and only have so much bandwidth for outrage and opposition. Mr. Miller has told peoplethat the goal is to overwhelm them with a blitz of activity.

As he works out his priorities, Mr. Millerappears to have learned two key lessons from the first Trump term.

The first is to flood the zone. He believes that those he regards as Mr. Trump’s enemies — Democrats, the media, groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and portions of the federal bureaucracy — are depleted and only have so much bandwidth for outrage and opposition. Mr. Miller has told peoplethat the goal is to overwhelm them with a blitz of activity.

The second lessonhas been tooperate with as much secrecy as possibleto prevent anyone from finding ways to obstruct the Trump agenda. As a congressional staffer, Mr. Miller was freewheeling in his digital communications. But since working forMr. Trump, who doesn’t use email and regards people who take notes with suspicion, he puts almost nothing in writing. Instead, he works through emissaries. (So all who are meeting with Trump, has to have an excellent memory, amazing.)

Theprotectiveness around the executive ordersis particularly notable. An incoming administration would usually send the drafts to the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, where a career lawyer — walled off from the outgoing administration’s political appointees — reviews them for form and legality and suggests improvements. For the most part, Mr. Trump’s first transition is said to have followed that practice.

But Mr. Miller is using ateam of lawyers from outside the Justice Department to vet the orders, a person with knowledge of the situation said — a sign of Trump aides’ general distrust of the Justice Department, which brought three special counsel investigations into Mr. Trump and twice indicted him. In the meantime,

Mr. Miller istrying to eliminate any roadblocksto Mr. Trump’s immigration plans. Mass deportations will require arrangements with other countries to take in the migrants; to that end, Mr. Miller lobbied for his ally, the former ambassador to Mexico,Christopher Landau, to be chosen as deputy secretary of state under Marco Rubio, the Florida senator whom Mr. Trump has chosen to lead the agency. (Probably to keep an eye on Marco as SOS, none of the first ones obeyed Trump, and some spied on him.)

Knowing the White House will need billions in congressional appropriations for the biggest deportation operation in American history — which he’s previously said will include sweeping raids and use of the U.S. military to build massive camps to detain the migrants — Mr. Miller has spent the past four years building relationships with lawmakers.

It appears to have paid off.

When Mike Johnson addressed the House Republican conference after securing the speakership, he made a point of singling out Mr. Miller for praise.Senator Jim Banksof Indiana, a former House member,said he talked to Mr. Miller nearly every day for the four yearsthat Mr. Trump was out of the White House. And Senator Mike Lee of Utah said there had been many times he pondered a new policy, when “all of a sudden a thought will occur to me: I wonder what Stephen Miller thinks of this one.”

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The Long Game

The last time Mr. Miller participated in a Trump transition, after the surprise victory of 2016, he was fairly low in the Washington power structure. He had become a minor celebrity on the right in 2006 for vocally defending a group of Duke University lacrosse players who had been accused — falsely, it later became clear — of rape. But he was best known to insiders as the scrappy congressional staffer for Mr. Sessions.Much of Washington’s establishment regarded Mr. Miller as a racist, and as an irritant, mockinghis over-the-top pronouncements and skinny ties.

He joined the Trump campaign part time in late 2015 and full time in early 2016, one of a handful of original aides on a small team. He worked like a man possessed, staying up all night to write Mr. Trump’s speeches, a task assigned to him by Mr. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.He channeled Mr. Trump’s voice better than any other adviser.

But he entered the executive branch knowing little about how it worked, and it showed. The travel ban executive order against mostly Muslim-majority countries, crafted in secret by an ally of Mr. Miller’s amid concern some Trump appointees would try to stop it, was criticized as sloppily drafted and was initially blocked by the courts.

Mr.Miller mostly stayed out of the factional warfarethat defined the early years of Mr. Trump’s first term. He was friendly with the more moderate West Wing camp — people like Mr. Kushner and Hope Hicks — and with those on the sharp edge of Mr. Trump’s movement.

He joined the Trump campaign part time in late 2015 and full time in early 2016, one of a handful of original aides on a small team. He worked like a man possessed, staying up all night to write Mr. Trump’s speeches, a task assigned to him by Mr. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.He channeled Mr. Trump’s voice better than any other adviser.

But he entered the executive branch knowing little about how it worked, and it showed. The travel ban executive order against mostly Muslim-majority countries, crafted in secret by an ally of Mr. Miller’s amid concern some Trump appointees would try to stop it, was criticized as sloppily drafted and was initially blocked by the courts. ..

People who have worked closely with Mr. Millersay they cannot recall him ever expending his political capitalon an ally who fell out of favor with Mr. Trump. When Mr. Sessions, his former boss who was now attorney general, became persona non grata with Mr. Trump over the Russia investigations, Mr. Miller made it clear thathis allegiance was to the president.

His strategy paid off. He survived. And his vision for immigration — including deeply restrictive and xenophobic policies — are now at the center of Mr. Trump’s economic and cultural agenda.

Unlike many others, he stuck with Mr. Trumpafter the violence of Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. He remained a paid adviser and a frequent Fox News presence promoting the Trump agenda, and made an early public endorsement of Mr. Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign at a time when many Republicans wanted to move on.

Mr. Miller, who comes from a wealthy family, did something else that Mr. Trump appreciated: He did not try to leverage his Trump ties into lucrative consulting contracts. The compensation he drew from his nonprofit, the America First Legal Foundation, in 2023 —$266,000 — was far less than what he could have earned working as a political gun for hire.

“Some people in Trump’s world have been there for career advantage or transactional reasons,” said Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who is close to both Mr. Trump and Mr. Miller.“But Stephen believes in the president’s agenda deeply.”

He plays the long game on relationships, scouting people who may be influential several years in the future. He built a relationship with JD Vance ahead of his successful Ohio Senate primary, years before he would become Mr. Trump’s running mate.He also can be a political shape-shifter when it’s expedient for him.

His long-term demonization of “radical Islam” went relatively quiet at moments during the 2024 presidential race, as he encouraged the Trump campaign to issue inviting statements to Muslims in Michigan — part of a strategy to exploit Muslims’ anger over the Biden administration’s support for Israel, according to three people with direct knowledge.

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Mr. Milleris generally well-liked on the Trump staff, though he is regarded as unusually intense and has been known to berate government officials he deemed obstructive. He has strongly held opinions about even minor matters, like men’s fashion. Specifically: fabrics, patterns, colors and collars.

He never argues with Mr. Trump, certainly never in front of others. Once it’s clear to him that Mr. Trump is headed in a certain direction, he sets aside his reservations.

In recent weeks, according to multiple people with direct knowledge, Mr. Miller has done little, if anything, to try to talk Mr. Trump out of his support for H-1B visas to import high-skilled foreign workers — despite the fact that Mr. Miller has spent much ofhis career condemning such visas.

Another recent example: Mr. Miller was initially surprised that Kristi Noem, the South Dakota governor, was chosen by Mr. Trump for secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Miller had wanted Thomas D. Homan, whom Mr. Trump had picked as his border czar, for the D.H.S. role, according to two people who spoke to him at the time. But when it was clear Mr. Trump was set on the idea, he did not try to dissuade him.

“He has the president’s complete trust,” said Mr. McCarthy. “Trump’s complained about everyone. Never him.”

Mr. Trump may not complain about Mr. Miller, but he does occasionally poke at his obsession with immigrants — a hostility that goes far beyond Mr. Trump’s. In one meeting during the 2024 campaign, Mr. Trump said that if it was up to Mr. Miller there would be only 100 million people in this country, and they would all look like Mr. Miller, according to a person with knowledge of the comment. Karoline Leavitt, Mr. Trump’s spokeswoman, denied the account.

The Out-side Strategy

Since he was a high schooler in Santa Monica, Calif., obsessed with Rush Limbaugh, Mr. Miller has cultivated right-wing media personalities. He is close to Tucker Carlson and Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, but he also follows the new wave of podcasters and comedians.

Mr. Miller has told friends howpleased he is that the Trump movement has shifted the cultural dial on his favored policies. Prominent Democrats have scrambled to rebrand themselves as tough on immigration, and officials such as New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, have welcomed tighter restrictions after an influx of migrants in their cities.

Mr. Miller has spent much of thepast four yearsfiguring out how to build pressure from outside of government to help enact Mr. Trump’s agenda. Less than a month after Mr. Trump left office,he founded the America First Legal Foundation, a nonprofit “public interest law firm.”

Mr. Miller,who is not a lawyer himself, cast the group as a conservative answer to the American Civil Liberties Union, helping the little guy fight big government or big tech.

His group quickly became a fund-raising powerhouse, raising $44 million in 2022. Mr. Miller’s group used some of that money on legal work. It filed more than 100 lawsuits, legal briefs and other actions, andhelped block a Biden administration plan to offer debt relief to Black farmers, which Mr. Miller’s group said was discriminatory.

But it spent far more on advertising: $32 million, which was nearly 70 percent of its total spending. Some of those ads seemed designed to damage Democrats in the run-up to elections. In 2022, for instance, the group paid for ads in swing states that accused the Biden administration of “anti-white bigotry.”

Now, as Mr. Trump returns to the White House,the America First Legal Foundation wants to serve as an attack dog for the Trump administration. In December, the group sent letters to 249 city and state officials in “sanctuary” jurisdictions that have said they will not cooperate with federal immigration authorities to help them arrest immigrants. If these officials do not participate in Mr.

Trump’s crackdown, Mr. Miller’s group said, the local officials could be considered to be illegally “harboring” undocumented immigrants.

Experts said it would be difficult for the group to actually sue local officials, but, as before, Mr. Miller’s group is contemplating a campaign outside the courtroom. It filed public-records requests with 17 states and cities, seeking evidence that they were preparing to defy Mr. Trump’s crackdown. And it set up a website called “Sanctuary Strongholds,” designed to direct public pressure against state and local officials.

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Key to some of those outside efforts will be one of the relationships Mr. Miller has established in the last few years — an alliance almost as valuable as his one with Mr. Trump. Mr.Miller found common cause with Mr. Musk, who had begun describing undocumented immigrants as a threat to Western civilization.

Mr. Miller’s wife, Katie, is also working with Mr. Musk, at his so-calledDepartment of Government Efficiency.(excellent she can keep an eye on them)

Mr. Miller began advising Mr. Musk on his political donations, which were at the time a closely held secret, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. A nonprofit called Citizens for Sanity, which tax filings show is closely tied to Mr.

Miller’s group, raised $94 million in 2022 and paid for ads that attacked Democrats’ policies on transgender youth. The Wall Street Journal reported that $50 million of the donations to Citizens for Sanity that year came from an outside group that Mr. Musk had been donating to. The America First Legal Foundation and Citizens for Sanity did not respond to questions sent by The New York Times.

Mr. Miller is also secretive about his relationship with Mr. Musk. But one person willing to discuss it on condition of anonymity said Mr. Musk had once told him: “I want doers. And most of these people in government, that’s not how they are.”

The person recalled that Mr. Musk allowed for one exception:“But Stephen Miller — I love Stephen Miller. He’s a doer.”

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>>22373034 Here are the Democrats who said they will not attend Trump's inauguration on MondayPN

I love it while these idiots and mostly unknown Congress Members do stuff like this, because they are putting themselves on a target list to be primaried, recalledor known to be against our country or people.

All the other leftists know better, because no body missed them at the first Trump Inauguration. They are just a stain on the highway.

Why do they think any of their constituents care, especially when many probably voted for Trump. And if they voted for Trump then they are certainly not going to vote for lefty losers next time around.

The radicals never learn or listen to the a large amount of democrats that voted for Trump because of the radical lies and destruction.

The ones with stars below are the only ones known, imo.

Here is a list of Democrats who have opted to skip the 2025 inauguration:

*Former first lady Michelle Obama

*Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Rep. Judy Chu of California

Rep. Lateefah Simon of California

Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois

Rep. Sean Casten of Illinois

Rep. Kweisi Mfume of Maryland

*Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey

*Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of New York

Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York

Rep. Deborah Ross of North Carolina

Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee

*Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas

Rep. Sylvester Turner of Texas

Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas

Rep. Donald Beyer of Virginia

Rep. Adam Smith of Washington

Rep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin

Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin

>>22373097 CBS is considering settling a $10 billion lawsuit brought by Trump over its deceptively edited ’60 Minutes’PN

Kekkity kek, kek, kek. The only reason why CBS would leak this out, is to notify Trump they are willing to negotiate. They are definitely not going to win in court.

There are going to be so many more lawsuits like this. That prior military man that was saving people in Afghanistan and CNN trial, the jury ruled in his favor.

The only way the media will learn not to lie and defame, ruining people's live, is by suing them, because they will not correct themselves. I think the first payout has opened a flood for millions more to sue.

I don't believe anyone before media ever lost this big before. Maybe small payouts or settlements, but not at this amount of money.

Class Action Lawsuits can be Effective

Look what is posted on Qanon.pub

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They basically could use AI for that job. Poor people that went to school to explain the weather are getting canned. They are half wrong anyway

>>22374495

There's no fire in their belly when dem voters found out what a scam democrats politicians do for their money

>>22374489

Every single leftwing media said the first payout to Trump was a big mistake and sent a bad signal.which is they lie all the time. Freedom of the press is based on honesty, not malign influencers to elect democrats==

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Why?

>>22374445

Does anyone else have a hard time getting mp4 running on the board?

If not, how do I fix it on my iphone?

>>22374445

Here's the video on Aus A.B.C.

Mel Gibson Warns Australians About China Back In 1987

https://youtu.be/RpvodjlYcgQ

Mel Gibson Saw The Future, Very Early!

February 22, 2021

Posted in Globalization, Offshoring

Format Post format: Video

The Globalist Uniform includes an elaborate mask that can only be worn by a wealthy and well-connected clique of #rootlesshyenas. This mask is used to hide a very cynical ploy. In short, back during the 1990s (especially) their original ploy involved — and to some extent still involves — the arbitrage of the Western World’s accumulated technical superiority and in-built productivity which then had to be pollinated with the typical Westerners’ characteristic liberalness, trust in authority, political idealism, and faultless kindliness to other (less worldly) races. Once the appropriate ‘legal’ documents had been manufactured, discussed and signed, permission was then ceremoniously granted by those paid to wear fancy robes. It was the robed Herald’s role to announce the Hyena’s intention to arrange for the wholesale transfer (i.e., outsourcing) of complex technical know-how and any associated assets to underdeveloped and far-away places like the Middle East, South Korea, India, and China. This, in short, is how “the East” got transformed at the West’s expense and within the geological time-span of a “blink of an eye”.

SHORTLINK: https://wp.me/p8JWg2-v4

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They (the Cabal) had no concern about the negative and highly corrosive consequences of this policy upon the peoples of those Western nations most affected, because they had already been weakened by fighting two world wars (within living memory), and by feminism, processed foodstuffs, depreciating currencies, and a self-destructive yet stubborn adherence to a centuries old “Jewish” psy-op known as Christianity.

Now fast-forward 30 years to the 2nd Decade of the Third Millennium, and consider the huge amount (in aggregate) of land, commercial property, residential property, ports, agricultural production, water resources, and manufacturing assets that the Communist Chinese have been taking ownership of — throughout Australia — since the USA’s brokerage of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on 11 December 2001 (exactly 3 months after the 9-11 False Flag destruction of Lower Manhattan’s WTC).

Mel Gibson speaking his mind in 1987, on Australia’s ABC

In the attachments below, note the peculiar involvement of Israel in Australia’s financial affairs. Obviously, Israel is not a neighbour of Australia, nor does it share membership of any regional treaties or organizations, etc. And much of Australian land remains the property of “The Crown” … a secretive organization based in the City of London.

So why the involvement of Stanley Fischer, who was at the time of his visit to Australia, the Governor of the Bank of Israel.

https://outsourcedworld-thebook.com/2021/02/22/mel-gibson-saw-the-future-very-early/

>>22374649

Here's the full video of Mel Gibson 12:47 minutes

The other one is only 1:02 and missed the majority of what he says

Mel Gibson Australia Interview1987

https://youtu.be/TaMMp5mj6Q8

>>22374679

Oops not the same interview

Joe Rogan Experience #2254 - Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson is an award-winning actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Look for the new film "Flight Risk," directed by Gibson and starring Mark Wahlberg, in theaters on January 24.

2:20:58

https://youtu.be/1rYtrS5IbrQ