Top White House aide Stephen Miller, who has dodged vicious attacks in the media and from House and Senate liberals for developing immigration policy, has cemented his role as one of President Trump’s most trusted aides.
According to the new book out today, “Fraud and Fiction, the Real Truth Behind Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” Miller is also described as Trump’s secret media slayer, one who flicked off a briefing room assault on immigration policy without even raising his voice.
“Miller is possibly the White House’s most studied adviser,” wrote the Washington Examiner’s Eddie Scarry in his new book, which shreds the anti-Trump book and media fave Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff.
In that book Wolff belittled Miller, who joined Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign from the staff of then Sen. Jeff Sessions and remains the one of the last top aides from those days to remain in the White House.
“White House policy adviser Stephen Miller is not, per Fire and Fury, an illiterate caveman,” said Scarry’s book.
He adds: “Wolff also describes White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, a key influence on Trump’s immigration policy positions, as if he has an extra chromosome. ‘He was supposed to be a speechwriter, but if so, he seemed restricted to bullet points and unable to construct sentences,’ Wolff wrote. ‘He was supposed to be a policy adviser but knew little about policy. He was supposed to be the house intellectual but was militantly unread.’ This description of Miller comes from Wolff, who can barely structure a sentence without at least 18 commas.”
Scarry cites one of the administration’s favorite briefings during which Miller and CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta went at it over immigration, with Acosta quoting the poem on the Statue of Liberty. He wrote that Miller “demonstrated his mastery of immigration policy by cleaning the press briefing room floor with CNN correspondent Jim Acosta’s head.”
