''Trump's psyche': The aide driving president's most controversial policies'

[Joinfortmill]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8rl71n4r3o

My words: Drag this guy's ass before Congress. Now, would be good.
Note: Bold is mine.

'For years Stephen Miller has been a conservative firebrand in Donald Trump's political orbit. Now, he has become a lightning rod....And over the last few weeks, Miller has found himself in unfamiliar territory - a behind-the-scenes operator suddenly in the national spotlight, whose words and actions are being scrutinised...

According to the Washington Examiner, Miller at one meeting "eviscerated" federal immigration officials for not doing enough to detain undocumented migrants across the US. Since then, the administration has ramped up enforcement in a growing list of major American cities, including Washington DC, Charlotte, Chicago and, most recently, Minneapolis....

Miller is the architect of this mass deportation policy, said Bryan Lanza, a conservative strategist who worked on Trump's 2016 and 2024 presidential campaigns. "We'll know in November whether he's to blame for it. The voters, at the end of the day, can be very unforgiving."...

"Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Axios recently, in part as a defence of criticism that she was the driving force behind the administration's forceful immigration enforcement actions.

[highplainsdem]

1. The BBC could have changed their headline to "Trump's psycho" and it would have been just as accurate.

[hlthe2b]

2. I'd prefer they drag his ass elsewhere, but... I guess we have to start somewhere.

I know how horrified his uncle on his mother's side and a cousin (on the father's side, I think) are-given they have spoken out in the past, but one has to wonder about the rest of the family. Even if they were wealthy, selfish conservatives before--one still has to wonder how having the reincarnated Joseph Goebbels as a son or or other family member must be for them. And damn, he is unlikeable-as I'd think are most people who are angry and homicidal on most days.

[RainCaster]

3. Can he be sent to the ICC?

Would the Hague prosecute that slimy bastard? There's not a Republican alive who would vote to convict him.

[Solly Mack]

4. I am so sick of people using the word "policy" like that means a criminal act can't be a criminal act if it is policy.

As if abuse, cruelty, and even murder is OK as long it is labeled "policy".

I'm repeating myself but:

Everything Hitler did was policy.
Everything Stalin did was policy.
Everything Mussolini did was policy.
Everything Franco did was policy.
Everything the Khmer Rouge did was policy.
Everything Ceaușescu did was policy.
Everything Pinochet did was policy.
Everything Idi Amin did was policy.

Everything Bush/Cheney did was policy.
Everything Duterte did was policy.
Everything Putin has done and is doing is policy.
Everything Orban is doing is policy.
Everything Kim Jong-un is doing is policy.
Everything the Taliban is doing is policy.

And on and on and on.


Calling something policy doesn't mean it is not a crime. Calling something policy does not mean it's not an abuse of power. Calling something policy does not mean it's Constitutional.

Just because it is happening in America does not mean it's the "good guys" doing it in "good faith".

Nor is a matter of two parties wanting the same things for America and merely going about getting there in different, albeit acceptable, ways.

A "policy" can be a crime. A "policy" can be a crime against humanity. A "policy" can be a war crime.

Time to stop pretending otherwise.

[bdamomma]

11. .....

[William Seger]

5. So, "conservative firebrand" means racist, mean-spirited shithead?

I concur.

[Wounded Bear]

9. Now it certainly does...

We need to get back to where that kind of shit was shamed out of open conversation.

[enigmania]

6. He's a deluded, vindictive chaos agent.

[Harker]

7. Psycho.

[BradBo]

8. Or, "What I've done was at the direction of Der Fuhrer".

[bdamomma]

10. Stephen Miller the

little Nazi must be held accountable or keep on calling your Reps and Senators and name him as the primary perpetrator of this deadly immigration plan.

He is a damaged weak little man, his own family has disowned him.

[bdamomma]

12. this is should be seen everywhere

'For years Stephen Miller has been a conservative firebrand in Donald Trump's political orbit. Now, he has become a lightning rod....And over the last few weeks, Miller has found himself in unfamiliar territory - a behind-the-scenes operator suddenly in the national spotlight, whose words and actions are being scrutinised...

[liberalgunwilltravel]

13. Trump's pscho

Is more like it.

[Martin68]

14. Miller is the Reinhard Heydrich of Trump's fascust regime.

[maxsolomon]

15. Any appearance before Congress would be as productive as Pam Bondi's last one.

Miller will lie non-stop and turn every question into an attack on Dems and/or "The Left". There will be no useful information gleaned. It will be angry theater, and pointless.

[Joinfortmill]

16. Even that should be recorded.

[maxsolomon]

18. I am sad for anyone who'd have to watch that in the future.

I think the country will need about 40 years to recover from these 4.

[Buns_of_Fire]

17. I wonder if he ever contemplates about what his life will be like

after his Fuhrer is no longer in power and he loses the protection of the U.S. government and his military-guarded housing.

I can see it. Ducking from car to car, avoiding any appearances in public, wondering if that knock on the door is the last thing he'll ever hear.

Oh, well. There's always Argentina. It worked for Adolf Eichmann. For a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann