"Why are you yelling?” the reporter asked as Trump’s senior adviser refused to clarify the source of information he was spreading about Venezuela’s crime rate.
Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller had an on-camera meltdown after being asked by a journalist to back up questionable claims he was making about Venezuela’s crime rate, video of the episode posted to social media shows.
The four-minute video shows an emotional Miller yelling at NTN24 reporter José María del Pino on Tuesday after del Pino questioned Miller over his claims that Venezuela has become safer than the United States because its convicts are now all in the U.S.
Miller also repeated a since-debunked story that a Venezuelan gang has taken over Colorado apartment complexes.
I think also what easily could be challenged is the composition of venezuelan prisons. A country mired in dictatorship is bound to have more political prisoners than actual criminals.
“THE CHILDREN WILL BE SAVED!”
That part got me upset considering school shootings.
It is amazing to me that these assholes will say “thoughts and prayers” or completely deny that things happened when it comes to schoolchildren being murdered in their classrooms, but expect people to be filled with righteous anger when it comes to brown people entering the country. If school shootings are a “fact of life” in America, assuredly immigration is a “fact of life” here…and it is one that has the advantage of being beneficial to the country.
Another thing that irritates me is that these babbling gobs (and particularly this caricaturistic, flanderized bobble head) prevent actual debate around how immigration should function in this country…ensuring that we will continue to be told by the media that there are only two positions on immigration: become a country that nobody new can enter even as we dwindle in population and inventiveness, or have “open borders” that allow absolutely anyone into the country.
I know the reality is that the Democratic party has nuanced positions on asylum and immigration, but the straw man position the Republicans keep insisting Democrats have completely chokes the public discourse to death leaving us continually discussing the two “options”, and thanks I fucking hate it.
It’s disappointing to see a bipartisan bill (this rarely happens) that could have made a difference get killed without making it to the house floor. That seemed like the middle ground solution.
Sadly, Trump is getting exactly what he wanted out of this election. His cornerstone argument is the border and he is literally nothing without it.
I agree. There’s always some middle ground. But these things have a way of being seen as black or white, like we can’t have a gray area in the middle.
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Miller got completely and thoroughly Harrised by that reporter
That’s some good Harrissment
Would rather watch him have a stroke.
Genuinely, that’s one of the most impressive examples of a serious journalist being an absolute fucking pitbull on a question, and as a result making the populist idiot spewing racist bile look like a complete imbecile, and laying bare the fact that he’s very obviously trying to push an agenda. Miller even fuckin pivots to MS-13 - an El Salvadoran gang (but all look same amirite /s) - because he realized he’s floundering, and reflexively reaches for more pathos of the “scary Latin people” conservative trope. Truly, this is an incredible interaction to watch. And the expressions of the people in the background are like “wow holy fuck lil’ fascist Stevie is getting OWNED”.
Seeing his reaction to facts and logic is like watching a cartoon robot’s reaction to a logic bomb.
He is also making such a bs argument. Does anybody believe that Maduro lets out criminals in the hope that they will cross the Dorian gap to go to the US? That makes no sense. It’s much more likely that those criminals, once let out of prisons, remain in Venezuela.
The worst part is the racist cult Miller is performing for will see the interview and ask why the reporter wasn’t as angry as Miller.
Eh. The actual answer to that question is “he’s genuinely good at and cares about his job as a journalist”. Simple as that.
You’re trying to apply logic and values as a reply to a comment saying that those values and logic don’t exist.
That is an answer for reasonable people, and they already know.
Oh if only he had the power he craves, this journalist would be in a camp for making him feel uncomfortable. Nasty little angry fascist.
Miller is literally a Nazie. Dude will say anything to kill, enslave, deport, or incarcerate anyone who does not fit his perfect all white Christian America. Anything he says by default is to be scrutinized and shouted down.
It makes me sick that these fuckers have forced me to hate other humans with such vitriol.
I don’t want this…
They hate people for existing, you hate people for their actions and harm done to others… These forms of hate are not the same.
Yeah but I don’t want to hate anybody.
That just means you’re normal
Eh… Hard disagree.
“bOtH siDeS”
Oh fuck, was that a journalist actually doing his job?
I almost forgot what that looks like.
Amazing to see what happens when someone sticks to a line of questioning and doesn’t just move on
I…what? I’ve never seen this happen, and a lot of recent events have me questioning my ability to tell waking from dreaming…
Hard to know if “journalism” exist at all anymore… this could be some random food blogger who got a media pass and accidentally asked a good question… you wouldn’t be able to know the difference.
It exists, you just don’t see it much in the US where corporations run the show.
And you’ll probably never see that journalist have that kind of access (amongst conservatives) ever again.
If on,y they all did it. Then the conservatives would either get no coverage or have to face actual questions.
Are most Republicans in the States so emotionally unstable and easy to manipulate, or is this guy an outlier?
I don’t know what his professional role is, but if he’s a public speaker he should probably be fired. That was embarrassing to watch.
This dude’s entire family publicly disowned him after some of the things he said and did during Trump’s first term
Even his family wants nothing to do with him
Stephen Miller is an advisor to Trump and is probably a psychopath. I don’t use that label lightly either.
When a normal person gets genuinely angry, their facial expressions and body language convey the anger too. It’s a natural reaction humans have when experiencing emotions and it’s tough to hide or fake.
Stephen Miller raises his voice, he uses an indignant tone, he makes aggressive motions with his body, but his face shows no change in expression at all. It’s not just this clip either, he’s like this all the time. He’s generally good at lying and changing topics during normal interviews, but he was cornered here and fell back to “pretend to be angry and change the topic.” Clearly this reporter was having none of it.
I just watched the clip again and you’re totally right. When I watched the first time, it was like an uncanny valley thing - it was mostly human but something was still really off.
Every time Stephen Miller yells, another hair falls out of his scalp.
If you can’t pound the facts, pound the table…
Awwww poor Baby Himmler had a bad day.
All that yelling, and his eyes remained dead the entire time.
But the kids! Think of the kids!
(No, not those kids)
A person’s eyes are a window into their soul.
The blinds are closed with this one. Maybe even boarded up.
Buster really went off the deep end after arrested development ended
What do you mean after it ended?
Did you watch the last episode (Netflix, not the original) ?
It’s been a long time, can you give me a hand
Sure, Maybe you’ll get hooked again:
In case you actually needed a refresher:
(spoilers fot the ending of Arrested Developement, obv.)
I turns out that Buster killed Lucile (2).
