Ioffe: When I profiled Stephen Miller in 2016 a person who'd worked with him asked for anonymity b/c

[highplainsdem]

Tweet from Julia Ioffe this afternoon:

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When I profiled Stephen Miller back in 2016, a person who used to work with him asked for anonymity because “He’s going to find out that I spoke with you and I’m going to end up in a camp somewhere.”

Editing to add Norm Ornstein's reply to that tweet:

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Stephen Miller is a monster, plain and simple. That he is directing policy of any sort is despicable. I hope no one invites him to a seder; if he had been alive in Egypt he would have sided with the Pharoah.

Editing yet again to add a link to that profile of Miller that Ioffe wrote for Politico, and the full quote:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/stephen-miller-donald-trump-2016-policy-adviser-jeff-sessions-213992

There is something eerily vintage about Miller’s stump speeches. The combination of their substance—vilifying immigrants as killers, the promise of nativist glory days ahead—and their delivery with a calm face around a loud, droning mouth, slicked-back hair and sharp suit, floridly invoking powerful cabals against the people: All of it harks back to an earlier time. It’s as if the video should be in black and white, and the microphone in front of Miller an antique, metallic affair. This is an image Miller assiduously cultivates, smoking like a chimney and dressing in suits that earned him the nickname “Mad Men” on the Hill. “You almost want to put him in a previous era,” says Marcus Peacock, who worked with Miller on the Senate Budget Committee.

Miller had always existed at the political margins, but Trump’s rise has allowed him to advance to the vanguard, and he clearly enjoys it. He grins at the podium, he savors the crowd’s reactions, even if they periodically boo him for not turning the stage over to Trump fast enough. “All the anger right underneath the surface just waiting to come through, about what I don’t know,” says a former staffer with the Republican leadership on the Hill. “I’ve seen the videos of him getting the crowd fired up. People that knew him when he was on the Hill, I don’t know how to describe the reactions people had to the videos of him. Maybe creeped out a little bit? Like, what’s going to happen when this guy gets the power?” He pauses as a thought dawns on him. “Oh my God,” he says. “He’s going to find out that I spoke with you and I’m going to end up in a camp somewhere.”

[dalton99a]

1. A cruel, sadistic, evil monster - which is why Trump likes and trusts him above all others

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Trump has surrounded himself by cruel, sadistic evil monsters.

[oregonjen]

2. I actually just looked him up on wikipedia to find out why he's so vile

Still can’t understand why someone is so full of hate like he is. What a monster indeed.

[DeltaLitProf]

6. My bet . . .

. . . is that he was unmercifully bullied at school.

[pangaia]

8. I suspect much worse than that...

Having been sexually abused would not surprise me in the least...

[ProudLib72]

10. Ya think?!

A California school district has reassigned a teacher who said Trump aide Stephen Miller would eat glue off his arm when he was in her third grade classroom.

Nikki Fiske is a teacher in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District.

In a piece in The Hollywood Reporter, she said that when Miller was 8, he would pour glue on his arm, wait for it to dry, peel it off and eat it.

"I remember being concerned about him -- not academically," Fiske said in the piece, which appeared Wednesday. "He had such strange personal habits. He was a loner and isolated and off by himself all the time."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/12/us/teacher-reassigned-after-miller-claims-trnd/index.html

[tanyev]

4. I wonder if Stephen ever worries about time travelers from the future coming after him.

[benld74]

5. How's about a subpoena from Dems

Maybe that would be the one
That pushes him over the edge nt

[YOHABLO]

7. "existed at the political margins" more like the scum under the frig that never gets cleaned.

[DoctorJoJo]

9. I'm Guessing Miller Doesn't Move So Much As Slither!