President Trump may be looking to shift senior policy adviser Stephen Miller to the White House communications director position.
Miller, who had up until this week been a behind-the-scenes presence, got a dose of national media attention due to his high-profile clash Wednesday with CNN’s Jim Acosta on immigration policy.
And according to Axios, that’s just the sort of thing Trump is interested in. Mike Allen reported Saturday that top Trump sources told him that Miller is now in contention to become communications director, less than a week after Anthony Scaramucci was ousted from the position after his vulgar diatribe against his colleagues.
Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, is a fan of the idea, and the report states that Miller earned points with the West Wing for criticizing Acosta’s “cosmopolitan bias.”
Some critics of Miller took issue with his use of the term “cosmopolitan,” due to its racist, anti-Semitic history. Former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes tweeted that Miller “is a white supremacist.”
