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ArtTownsend

(439 posts)
Fri Feb 28, 2020, 01:43 PM Feb 2020

For those worrying about Stephen Miller's wife being in charge of coronavirus response...

...you’re right to worry.

While serving as the Department of Homeland Security's deputy press secretary under Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Waldman defended the policy that caused such controversy.

She insisted, according to ABC News, that the administration "never had a blanket policy of separating families in custody," although admitted that "of course separations occurred—but not at the rate of "thousands" they are claiming."

She also described on CNN how a "violent mob of migrants" trying to enter the country illegally from Mexico into California, needed to be stopped by border agents using tear gas and pepper spray.




Before she replaced Alyssa Farah as Pence's press secretary, a former DHS official told NBC News that she "impressed a lot of people in the administration" during her stint there.

She is considered to be a Trump loyalist and Montana Senator Steve Daines praised her as having a "very strong personality and "incredible work ethic."

A senior administration official with her at the DHS said she had a wide range of experience and that "she's pro-Trump and that checks all the boxes."


https://www.newsweek.com/katie-waldman-mike-pence-donald-trump-stephen-miller-1487608
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For those worrying about Stephen Miller's wife being in charge of coronavirus response... (Original Post) ArtTownsend Feb 2020 OP
Katie Waldman is Trump trash dalton99a Feb 2020 #1
Katie Waldman is human scum. dem4decades Feb 2020 #2
Tattle-tale sign... 2naSalit Feb 2020 #3
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