I can't decide which is more amazing: @MichaelEHayden's tremendous reportage yesterday on Stephen Miller, or the rest of the media today, all studiously pretending as though it doesn't matter.
@MichaelEHayden Incidentally, much of the focus is on the period when Miller worked for Jeff Sessions. He happened to turn up in some reportage I did for Hatewatch at the time, notably a piece about Sessions' office hosting a bunch of 'constitutionalist' sheriffs.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015…
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015…
@MichaelEHayden This 2014 gathering was the reason there was a "Patriot" protest outside the White House that day, where the participants shouted at President Obama: "Hang the lying traitor!," and conversed about lynching him.
@MichaelEHayden Inside, the meeting that Miller had arranged with "constitutionalist" ex-Sheriff Richard Mack and a passel of members of his far-right organization, sheriffs themselves, featured Sessions, Sen. David Vitter, and Rep. Marsha Blackburn.
@MichaelEHayden As they all streamed out, the people who had been out demanding Obama be lynched all came inside and applauded the sheriffs and the politicians as they emerged. These videos were all filmed by Bundy Ranch/Malheur figure Blaine Cooper.
@MichaelEHayden Stephen Miller is one of the first faces you see emerging from the chambers, right behind Sessions. He chats up Cooper.
Certainly worth noting that he cultivated not just white-nationalist ties, but also militia/Patriot movement connections as well.
Certainly worth noting that he cultivated not just white-nationalist ties, but also militia/Patriot movement connections as well.
