Trump Blurts Out Dark Truth about Stephen Miller’s Ugly, Hateful Aims

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Stephen Miller had a shouting match Thursday with a GOP Senator over Miller’s demand for massive funds for deportations, which Republicans are debating right now. Yet at around the same time, President Donald Trump openly admitted that his deportations are badly hurting farmers by removing their workers—and described those undocumented workers as “impossible to replace.” Miller is demanding supercharged deportation numbers on the grounds that migrants are criminals and/or displace U.S. workers, but Trump admitted Miller’s deportation agenda is targeting good, hard-working people who aren’t taking jobs from Americans and that their removal hurts the economy. This—along with the shocking manhandling of Democratic Senator Alex Padilla by Homeland Security goons and the backlash to Trump’s dispatching of troops to Los Angeles—suggests the MAGA coalition is coming under serious strains on immigration. We talked about all this with Tori Gavito, the president of Way To Win, who also discusses the group’s new polling showing Democrats have an opening to go on offense on the issue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.2	So. Suddenly, Democrats have a bunch of new openings to go on offense against President Donald Trump on immigration.
0:53.6	First, Trump just openly admitted that his mass deportations are harming farmers in the economy. Second, Stephen Miller got
0:56.1	into a yelling match with a GOP senator over deportation funding. And finally, Senator Alex Padilla
1:02.8	was manhandled by Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem's goons, thrown to the ground and handcuffed,
1:10.0	all because he tried to ask Noem a question about
1:13.0	Trump's likely illegal dispatching of troops into Los Angeles.
1:17.2	We think all this suggests that the MAGA coalition is coming under new strains on this
1:21.9	issue. And as it happens, the Progressive Group Way to Win just released some new polling that
1:27.3	finds Democrats
1:28.2	do have an opening to go on offense on immigration. So we're talking about all this with Way to
1:33.6	Wins' president, Tori Gavito. Thanks for coming on, Tori. Thanks for having me. So let's start
1:39.6	with what happened to Senator Padilla. He tried to ask Christy Nome a question at a presser in California.
1:45.6	We're going to play some audio of this. Here's what you'll hear. First, Padilla tries to ask the
1:50.6	question. Then you can hear him protesting as he's grabbed, manhandled, and hauled out. Then you can
1:56.9	hear them push him to the ground while he struggles and then the handcuffs clink.
2:01.7	Listen to this.
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