The Woman Who Turned on Stephen Miller
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
When she was a staff writer at Breitbart News, Katie McHugh exchanged hundreds of emails with Stephen Miller, who is currently one of President Trump’s senior advisors. Then, McHugh was a champion of the alt-right and a supporter of white nationalist ideology. Now, she wants the world to know that those same ideas are what motivate Miller to craft hard-line anti-immigration policies. And she has the receipts to prove it.
Guest: Katie McHugh, former Breitbart staff writer
Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, Danielle Hewitt, and Mara Silvers.
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| 0:00.0 | When Donald Trump was running for president, holding rallies around the country, he had a reliable warm-up act. |
| 0:12.2 | How are we all doing tonight, Florida? |
| 0:15.5 | His senior policy advisor, Stephen Miller. |
| 0:19.0 | And I believe, I believe that it is going to be the state of Florida that sends Donald |
| 0:23.8 | J. Trump to the White House. |
| 0:27.6 | Miller was just 30 years old at this rally, the summer before Trump's election. |
| 0:32.8 | He manages to look utterly at ease and completely out of place at the same time. |
| 0:39.0 | With his neatly tailored suit, he doesn't seem to have much in common with the cheering |
| 0:44.4 | crowd, who are mostly wearing t-shirts and maga hats. |
| 0:48.4 | But Miller knows what his audience wants to hear, and he seems to relish saying it. |
| 0:54.1 | We'll never really know the full extent, the full extent of Hillary's corruption, |
| 0:59.3 | because she deleted those 30,000 emails, right? |
| 1:04.2 | He's telling this story about Washington insiders selling everyday Americans short, |
| 1:10.2 | and a story about a border wall that's going to keep those Americans safe. |
| 1:15.0 | You know what's going to happen when he builds that wall? |
| 1:18.3 | The drugs aren't going to come in and hurt our children anymore. |
| 1:26.7 | Because, Foggling up. Because folks, brick by brick by brick, that wall is going to get built. |
| 1:39.9 | Now that Trump is in the White House, Stephen Miller's been turning this rhetoric into policy. |
| 1:49.4 | He isn't just advocating for a border wall. |
| 1:52.0 | He's said to be the architect of Trump's family separation plan. |
| 1:55.5 | And he was reportedly behind the rollback of a program for migrants fleeing social unrest. |
| 2:01.1 | His title, Senior Advisor for Policy, |
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