Stephen Miller now a target of DOJ investigation -- will he be the one to flip on Trump?

[marmar]

(Salon) After Donald Trump won the White House in 2016, a slew of political operatives came and went throughout his presidency, including permanent and "acting" Cabinet appointments, West Wing aides and advisers, and any number of administrative officials. Trump eventually secured, as far as possible, a group of folks around him who either agreed with him or would always defer to him if they did not.

Two of the most influential and trusted figures behind Trump and Trumpism were Steve. Bannon and Stephen Miller. Together, they wrote much of Trump's 2017 State of the Union address to Congress. They influenced and shaped policy, and helped Trump stoke white voters' resentment toward immigrants, Muslims, Black Lives Matter protesters, cancel culture, "wokeness" and the teaching of critical race theory.

Bannon the "tactician" and Miller the "hatemonger" were the twin oracles behind economic nationalism and the America First ideology with its range of combative and odious techniques. Bannon certainly can take as much credit as anybody for Trump's 2016 Electoral College victory as well as for the Capitol insurrection in January 2021. Before there was Trumpism, there was a barely visible subterranean political movement both at home and abroad that we might call Bannonism.

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But it now appears that the Department of Justice could be working its way circuitously toward a criminal indictment of Stephen Miller for a variety of felonies, including seditious conspiracy. If my speculation here is correct, Miller may become even more infamous than Bannon is. The former speechwriter and policy wonk, in my judgment, is more likely to be the one who ultimately flips and fingers the former president for multiple crimes.

This has to do with procedural differences between the select committee's investigation of Jan. 6 and the DOJ's grand jury investigation of Trump's Save America PAC. Unlike in the former investigation, where Miller invoked "executive privilege," in the latter investigation he would have to invoke the Fifth Amendment in order to avoid testifying. ...........(more)

https://www.salon.com/2022/09/12/stephen-miller-now-a-target-of-doj-investigation--will-he-be-the-one-to-flip-on-trump/

[hlthe2b]

1. Makes one wonder: which of leading Hitler Inner Circle would have turned if given the same chance?

Seems an apt comparison, especially with Stephen Miller.

[Firestorm49]

2. Miller? Flip? Never!

[90-percent]

3. If he flips

Then I think us libs should all pitch in for a well crafted toupee for him..............finally!

Separating children from their families and putting them in chain link cages inside auditoriums and aircraft hangers as a means to discourage illegal immigration was despicable and sub-human. And he was one of the few that was with the TFG administration for the entire duration. (May have been others, but I'm pretty sure there was a bigly personnel turn over for the duration of TFG's term?)


-90% Jimmy

[OneGrassRoot]

4. Now that is delicious.

He's been awfully quiet for a long time now. I thought I recalled reading last week that the J6 committee requested (or subpoenaed?) he appear. A possible DOJ indictment would be a wonderful development for this Nazi. I can absolutely see him flipping. I don't see Bannon or Stone flipping but Miller? Yep.

[Mz Pip]

5. Miller is a true zealot

He won’t flip, so it will be delicious to see him squirm and play the victim.

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. Miller was just subpoenaed as a *witness*

I have seen no evidence or reports that he is a target of an investigation.

That Salon article seems to get waaay out over their skis…

[FSogol]

7. That Salon article seems to get waaay out - Salon is nothing more than clickbait journalism