Stephen Miller, Trump’s implement of boss

At an inauguration -ve-rally in Washington last weekend, celebrities changed shifts with the jubilant audience of Trump supporters gathered to start dawn in a new American age, among them Jon Voight, Dana White and Kid Rock.

But it was not the Hollywood actor, UFC frontman or the rock star who won the biggest roar from Maga -troaster. Instead, it was a policy Wonk, Stephen Miller, the architect of Donald Trump’s second-term political agenda and anti-immigration ideologist.

“They were so sure they would crush this movement out of existence,” Miller was bulging as his fiery eight -minute address reached a highlight. “And yet we stand today, and Maga is stronger, more powerful, more unified and more determined than ever before.” The audience went wild.

Since returning to the Oval Office, Trump has not wasted time signing a blizzard of executive orders aimed at increasing oil production, restricting immigration, tightening of diversity initiatives and pardon on January 6th rebels, just to name a few get. When the president put his name to the directives, Miller, Mastermind, stood behind them, just meters away.

“Stephen, like the president, thinks we have a limited time to save our country,” says Jason Miller (no relationship), a former Trump spokesman. “For these early actions, I would say that Stephen is the most important implement-I-chief.”

Miller has been a Trump-released from the early days of his first presidential campaign in 2016. Then he drew up the policy behind a card table in a closet in a closet in a closet in a closet in a closet size on the fifth floor of the Trump Tower.

Associates say his attention to details was based on the start. “During the discussion of politics, he always knew most about any topic that was discussed from 150-year-old esoteric immigration provisions for international postal agreements,” says Hunter Morgen, his former deputy.

Miller’s loyalty has paid off. According to Mick Mulvaney, chief of staff under Trump’s first administration, ”Stephen is likely. . . They closest to the president of someone in the west wing at this time now that the family is not there. He becomes one of the critical players. He has been with the president probably the longest of someone in there. The president is implicitly trusting him. “

As he returns to the White House, a fighting political veteran, the Democrats are in high attention. “He is the second most dangerous man in America after the president – and unlike the president, he actually knows what he’s doing,” says Jim Manley, a former long -standing help to the Senate’s democratic leadership.

Miller was born in Santa Monica, California in 1985. His right zeal was visible early. As a 16-year-old, he called into radio programs and wrote to local newspapers, railings against the “violent political correctness,” he said consumed his high school.

In a 2002 letter published in Santa Monica, he hit bilingual messages, the availability of birth control, “Foster (ing)” of homosexuality, the lack of recite the pledge of allegiance and the negative portrayal of American history. “Forget about being the nation that stopped Hitler, brought communism to their knees and feed more hungry people all over the world than any other country – forget all this, and let’s just agree that we’re a terrible nation. Or we can raise our flag, lift our guns and preach that we are Americans, ”he wrote.

After studying at Duke University, he went into Republican politics, where he quickly made a name for himself. Former Tea Party Congress Michele Bachmann remembers him as a “serious, tireless communications director who quickly proved his intellect and talent”. Dave Brat, the economics professor, who Miller helped remove the house’s majority leader Eric Cantor in 2014, says he was a “straight shooting game” that put “Empirics” over “feelings”.

But it was with Alabama senator Jeff Sessions that he found his abilities as a hype man. Sessions previously told the Financial Times that he had asked Miller, then an employee of his Senate Office, to introduce him to an event when someone pulled out. Miller was so good in the role, according to Sessions, that he became a regular fixture.

During the 2016 presidential race, Sessions was one of the first Republicans to support Trump, and Miller soon joined the real estate agent on the campaign track. Trump often used the young ideologist as a warm -up act.

But it was in politics that Miller would be invaluable, making the president’s anti-immigration plans. During Trump’s first period, he shaped nativistic policies, including separation of families, the short -lived so -called Muslim travel ban and the end of the program postponed action for childhood arrival (DACA).

Groups representing immigrants fear his return to the government’s heart. “We are deeply, deeply concerned,” says Vanessa Cárdenas, director of America’s voice, an NGO. “It is incredibly worrying that he is back and honestly responsible for immigration policy – and also has tentacles all over our government.”

While immigration may be his driver, Miller also plans to make his mark in other areas – transforming America’s relationship with the world and reviewing what he sees as a “corrupt and destroyed” system at home. “How does Stephen spend his days,” Mulvaney asks. “It is immigration, immigration, immigration, then trade policy, then the deep state.”

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