5 things you didn't know about Stephen Miller, the 31 year old White House adviser behind Trump's immigration ban
Miller
who isn't even an elected White House executive is the one who seriously
pushed for the executive order temporarily banning immigrants and
refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries and reportedly instructs
Trump on a lot of White House policies.
Well LIB did some digging, and here are 5 things worthy of knowing about Miller.
1.
Miller, just like Trump is a very ambitious young man, and at the age
of 31, his foray into politics and most especially the White House has
been spectacular and alarming to say the least. He was once Jeff
Sessions aide and could be reunited with the senator if he's confirmed
as the Attorney General of the United States.
Miller,
spurred by his ambition of greatness, he approached Trump's campaign
team in June 2015, promising them that with him on board they have a
high chance of defeating an Obama/Clinton controlled Washington.
He
was officially appointed as a senior adviser of Trump's campaign in
January 2016, Trump was seriously impressed by Miller and then promoted
him to top policy maker and his only speech writer.
He normally fired up the crowd before Trump's campaign rally speeches with words like: ''
Those in power want to keep you down, but Donald Trump is here to raise you up.
"Everybody who stands against Donald Trump are the people who've been running this country into the ground,"
"Everything that is wrong with this country today, the people opposing Donald J. Trump are responsible for."
2.
He was raised in a Jewish and Democratic family, but after the 9/11
attacks and inspiration from Wayne LaPierre’s 1994 book, “Guns, Crime,
and Freedom”, he decided to ditch his faily's political orientation
while still in high school and even challenged different political
doctrines in his college days.
While in
school he was annoyed with government's acceptance of gays and
reportedly said: “just in case your son or daughter decides at their
tender age that they are gay, we have a club … that will gladly help
foster their homosexuality.”
After graduating from High-school, Miller published a column titled “How I Changed My Left-Wing High School.”
And on his bio, he wrote : “Stephen Miller, 17 years old, just graduated from Santa Monica High School,”
“Since his Junior year in High School, he has been a guest on local and national radio over thirty times.”
3.
Just like Trump, Miller is a far-right, anti-immigration,
anti-free-trade nationalism activist and propeller. He is obsessed with
perfection and believes in his own ability more than anyone or anything
else. He's an excessive self-promoter, and is great at attracting
attention and creating a 'dynamic' brand and imagery of himself by
creating controversies.
According to CNN,
Miller's high school classmate, Adrian Karima, a 31 year old lawyer,
Miller made a name for himself in school by challenging his teachers and
presenting his conservative views with the predominantly left-leaning
student body. At one point in time he even complained that his school
which had a sizeable African-American and Hispanic population -- was
trying to indoctrinate students.
"He saw it as
being outnumbered in Santa Monica, trying to preserve any idea of
Americanism that he felt, particularly by pushing English-speaking
first."
"Stephen's whole view of immigration stems from high school,"
"His negative views of immigration started in high school and just grew over time."
4.
He wouldn't mind provoking people, or denouncing popular beliefs or
thought patterns, as far as his thoughts and views were listened to, he
was fine.
For instance, Bannon and Miller
(Trump calls them 'my two Steves) not only created Trump’s controversial
travel ban; Miller spent Saturday/Sunday
directing how the law would be implemented, overruling Homeland
Security officials and insisting, that green card holders would also be
barred from entering the country unless they are granted waivers on a
case-by-case basis.
“He was very
businesslike about it. … It smacked of architecture, like he
intentionally provoked people, and it worked for him because he was
making a name for himself.” an article on Politicio.com said about him.
Aged
16, he wrote a very long editorial in high school that had statements
like "very few, if any, Hispanic students make it to honors classes
because the school provides a "crutch" to those who don't speak English
by ensuring all announcements are written in both Spanish and English."
"Osama Bin Laden would feel very welcome at Santa Monica High School,"
''This school isn't patriotic enough''
You can read his high school editorial - here
5.
He wrote down Donald Trump's presidential inauguration speech, and oh
my.. it contained some of the worst words ever used by a new U.S
president during an inauguration.
Trump
said in a statement in December that Miller had played a “central and
wide-ranging role” in the campaign. “He is deeply committed to the
America First agenda' Trump's inauguration speech was blasted by
mainstream media organizations like CNN and NBC as "one of the most
radical inaugural speeches we've ever heard." and 'shockingly divisive'.
No other president used such words in an inauguration speech before, but thanks to Miller, Trump became the first.
The speech was laced with words like;
…
ripped … rusted … sad … solidarity … sprawl … stealing … stolen …
subsidized … tombstones … trapped … trillions … tunnel … unrealized
… bleed … carnage … depletion … landscape … overseas disagreements …
disrepair … flush … infrastructure … Islamic … lady …unstoppable … urban
… wind-swept.
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