Pressure grows on Stephen Miller after Alex Pretti killing but Trump unlikely to cut ties [View all]
Pressure is growing on the key White House senior adviser Stephen Miller over the killing of the intensive care nurse Alex Pretti by border patrol agents in Minneapolis and its politically divisive aftermath.
Miller, the architect of Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policy, finds himself in the rare position of being contradicted and excluded from crucial decisions by the US president.
About three and a half hours after the tragedy on Saturday, Miller used social media to describe Pretti, 37, as a “would-be assassin” who “tried to murder federal agents”. On Tuesday, when asked if he believed Pretti was an assassin, Trump said: “No.”
The president had held a two-hour meeting with the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, in the Oval Office on Monday evening at Noem’s request. Miller was conspicuously absent.
Meanwhile, the Axios news site, citing four unnamed sources, reported that Miller was responsible for the Department of Homeland Security’s baseless claim that Pretti intended to “massacre” officers, parroted by Noem. “Stephen heard ‘gun’ and knew what the narrative would be: Pretti came to ‘massacre’ cops,” one of the sources said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/stephen-miller-ice-minneapolis-trump
Shitler can't function without Herr Miller, and that's the truth!
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