Representative Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was criticized by conservatives earlier this year for calling White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller a “White nationalist.”
A huge trove of emails obtained and reported recently by the Southern Poverty Law Center shows that she was right to be suspicious of Miller.
While many conservatives are skeptical of the Southern Poverty Law Center, what the center has uncovered in emails appears to be strong evidence against Miller.
In the emails, Miller recommend links to White supremacist websites VDARE and American Renaissance to former Breitbart editor Katie McHugh, who corresponded with Miller between 2015 and 2016. In the correspondence, Miller urged Breitbart’s increased coverage of crimes by Hispanic and nonwhite people.
McHugh was fired from Breitbart in 2017 for tweets she later admitted were racist. McHugh has since disavowed her career at Breitbart and its far-right politics.
“You have to own up to what you did and then forcefully reject this and explain to people and tell your story and say, ‘Get out while you can,’” she told BuzzFeed News in May.
Miller consistently pushed links to McHugh that heavily trafficked in the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, which argues that White people are intentionally being “replaced” in America by other nonwhite people.
The White House has not denied any of the information reported by the Southern Poverty Law Center. It has focused its response on attacking the center and critics of Miller but has not directly addressed the disturbing allegations in the report. Miller has not refuted the report.
This is unacceptable. Miller’s behavior should not be normalized or given a pass because of the unorthodoxy of the Trump administration.
Miller was appointed senior policy adviser to the Trump campaign in January 2016 and later joined President Donald Trump’s transition team. He currently advises the president on immigration policy and is credited with spearheading Trump’s hard-line efforts on border security.
There must be zero tolerance for someone in the administration of the president of the United States to be associated with white nationalism.
Miller is either a White nationalist himself, an advocate for White nationalist views or someone who is willing to promote such views for political purpose.
Trump should fire Stephen Miller immediately.
(Reprinted from the Philadelphia Tribune)
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