Stephen Miller rages at journalist in Harris-Trump debate spin room: ‘Do you have any remorse?’
A tense confrontation erupted late Tuesday evening in the “spin room” on the sidelines of the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in Philadelphia.
While many reporters and campaign surrogateswere beginning to file out of the room (or had already done so), a handful remained from both parties, huddling in small groups with journalists. Most were relative C-list names, though a few Republican senators remained to stump for Trump, including Marco Rubio.
One of the other Republicans lingering late in the hall was Stephen Miller, a former White House official thought to have been the architect of Trump’s more draconic immigration policies during the ex-president’s four years in Washington. Miller is one of Trump’s closest loyalists — he has been with Trump since 2016, and was one of the few to survive all four years of Trump’s presidency in the White House. One of his final acts in the office was drafting the speech his boss gave to a crowd of rioters before they stormed the Capitol on January 6.
But what he was possibly most famous for during the Trump presidency was his fiery temper, which came out in interviews with journalists and quickly got him kicked out of his unofficial role selling the strictest of Trump’s immigration policies on cable news.
That temper was on display Tuesday evening when a red-faced Miller, growing irate and repeatedly shouting, got in the face of a journalist for Colombia’s Nuestra Tele Noticias (NTN24) who questioned him about Trump’s tall tale of the night — the ex-president’s baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were eating family pets in a small town in Ohio. The claim has roots in racist caricatures of the so-called “third world”, and as ABC moderators pointed out