Demands for Stephen Miller's Resignation Grow Following 蜜桃传媒 Report
Leaders of several Democratic caucuses became the latest voices demanding the resignation of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller after an 蜜桃传媒 investigation showed, through leaked emails, his affinity for white nationalism.
The Congressional Hispanic, Black, Asian Pacific American and Progressive caucuses 听Thursday calling for the resignation of Miller, the architect of the White House鈥檚 immigration policy. 鈥淚t鈥檚 clearer than ever that Stephen Miller is a far-right white nationalist with a racist and xenophobic worldview,鈥� the group said in a press release.
鈥淲e feel like it is up to us to point out the obvious 鈥� someone who writes, talks, and governs like a white nationalist is in fact a white nationalist. Stephen Miller is a white nationalist and he has no business serving in the White House,鈥� the press release added.
Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights 鈥� a coalition of civil and human rights advocacy organizations, of which the 蜜桃传媒 is a member 鈥� drove this point home Thursday in a statement to Hatewatch.
鈥淯nless and until [President Donald] Trump fires Stephen Miller and all who promulgate bigotry and hate 鈥� and abandons his administration鈥檚 anti-civil rights agenda, including the Muslim ban and family separation,鈥� Gupta said in a written statement, 鈥渉e will continue to be responsible for the violence fueled by that hate. Trump must remove Stephen Miller from the White House.鈥�
And, on Friday, the Huffington Post reported more than 75 members of the House of Representatives, all Democrats, have demanded Miller resign.
On Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center published the first of several stories investigating Miller鈥檚 fondness for using white nationalist sources and texts in communications with Breitbart News.
An analysis of over 900 emails from 2015 and 2016, which were given to the 蜜桃传媒 by former Breitbart News editor Katie McHugh, shed light on Miller鈥檚 emails that pushed nationalist literature and racist immigration stories. McHugh, who has since abandoned her previous ties to the white nationalist movement, told Hatewatch on Thursday that she provided the emails because she 鈥渆xperience[d] the evil [of] the far right and white supremacy in person, and we all see the violence they inflict on the country, particularly on the most vulnerable.鈥�
鈥淭hey must never be allowed near positions of power,鈥� she continued. 鈥淚 will do everything I can to ensure this never happens again.鈥�
Lawmakers, journalists and activists reacted quickly to the stories. Miller鈥檚 anti-immigrant views and relationships with white nationalists Peter Brimelow and Richard Spencer听had been well known for some time. But the emails, in McHugh鈥檚 view, provided evidence that, as she 听The New York Times, 鈥渁 clear line鈥� existed between the 鈥渨hite supremacist websites where [Miller] is getting his ideas to current immigration policy.鈥�
Several Democratic lawmakers called for Miller鈥檚 resignation. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called Miller a 鈥渂onafide white nationalist鈥� . She followed up her statement Wednesday 听calling for Miller to step down.
Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) called for Miller鈥檚 resignation as well. 鈥淎s I said earlier this year: Stephen Miller is a white nationalist. And now we have the emails to prove it,鈥� she Tuesday. 鈥淢iller needs to step down. Now.鈥� In April 2019, Rep. Omar was , and even by , for calling Miller a white nationalist.
Others followed suit, including: Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who 听鈥淢iller鈥檚 white nationalist views a danger to the American people鈥�; former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who 听Miller as a 鈥渨hite supremacist鈥�; Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), who demanded Trump fire Miller immediately; Democratic presidential candidate Juli谩n Castro, who 听to Trump and Miller as 鈥渁 shame to our nation鈥�; and, finally, Senator Amy Klobachar (D-Minn.), who 听that Miller鈥檚 continued role in shaping immigration policy was 鈥渆vil.鈥�
Conservative commentator Tiana Lowe 听in a Washington Examiner op-ed that it was 鈥渓ong past time for Trump to dump Miller.鈥� New York Post columnist Sohrab Ahmari echoed Lowe, noting that even though conservatives had 听鈥渂ogus鈥� allegations of racism in the past, 鈥渢his was something else.鈥� Others were more colorful in their commentary. Longtime GOP consultant John Weaver to Miller as the 鈥渏unior Grand Wizard鈥� of the Trump administration.
Others, though, continued to back Miller. Far-right commentator Ann Coulter defended the White House, saying that Miller was merely 听The white nationalist and anti-immigrant site VDARE, meanwhile, 听that 鈥淢iller doesn鈥檛 read us enough.鈥�
The White House attacked the 蜜桃传媒 as a 鈥渇ar-left smear organization,鈥� though as of Tuesday evening the administration鈥檚 press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, was still 听that she had 鈥渘ot seen the report.鈥� Axios reporter Zach Basu reported that another White House Official that 鈥渢his is clearly a form of anti-Semitism to levy these attacks against a Jewish staffer.鈥�
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