Donald Trump Trades His Best Angel For His Worst Devil In Chief Of Staff Swap

Stephen Miller is the most strident, racist, radical voice in Trump’s orbit, and will now have the top job in his White House.

Senior White House Correspondent, HuffPost

If Susie Wiles was the cartoon angel on President Donald Trump’s shoulder trying to talk him out of his worst impulses, Stephen Miller is the pitchfork-wielding devil on the opposite side, encouraging his most violent and authoritarian desires.

As of Friday, Wiles is out of the White House, and Miller is now Trump’s top aide. The elevation of the openly racist and radical Miller, who frequently shares his incendiary and autocratic views on Fox News, may be a telling clue of where the last two years of Trump’s term are headed.

“Trump at his narcissistic worst,” said Ty Cobb, who served in the White House Counsel’s Office during Trump’s first term. “Miller, who championed the killers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and is responsible for the cages and cruelty of ICE and many other policies viewed as atrocities, is a fascist and a racist of the highest order.”

Miller’s ascendance likely signals that Trump, despite occasional comments in recent days about wanting to work on a bipartisan basis with Democrats, intends to mostly engage in political combat. Miller is not known for his work with Democrats, and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries responded to the news of Miller’s promotion by calling for his firing instead.

“Stephen Miller is a dangerous xenophobe and reckless extremist who has American blood on his hands,” Jeffries wrote on........

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