I suspect that if you don’t know this person’s name you haven’t paid much attention to politics lately, especially within the last 3 years. If you don’t know his name you may be inclined to believe that the Trump Administration has something for Black people. You may even think that Trump is open to the Contract for Black America. You may even believe Trump has a plan specifically for Black people and their businesses. Much worse, you may actually believe that a Biden/Harris win will leave Black people further down the totem pole. Hell, you probably think it really doesn’t matter much who is in the White House.
Every president has advisors. The most senior advisors have the president’s ear. They are able to push policy positions and craft messaging, even propaganda. In most administrations, we know who these advisors are and what they stand for. For example, President Obama had Valerie Jarrett, President Bush’s Senior Advisor Karl Rove was nicknamed “Bush’s Brain”. These senior advisors are considered the president’s right hand. They’re not elected nor does Congress have to approve their nomination.
That being said, as far as I can remember, all the president’s trusted senior advisors are very much involved in re-election campaigns. You see them all over the news selling us on why the President should be re-elected.
Until now!
The Trump Administration has seen more firing, resignations, or retires than any administration in recent memory. With the exception of Trump’s family members, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and Eric Trump, very few have survived a full 4-year term in his administration.
Who is this guy? His name is Stephen Miller and he is President Trump’s senior advisor for policy. Why is the Trump Campaign hiding him? If we review his record we may find out. In an article written November 12, 2019 by The Southern Poverty Law Center titled Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails,
it is suggested that “In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories and obsessed over the loss of Confederate symbols after Dylann Roof’s murderous rampage, according to leaked emails reviewed by Hatewatch.”
Don’t care about immigration policies from the Trump Administration or Confederate symbols? Here is another article from Forbes, How Right-Wing Media and Stephen Miller ‘Radicalized’ Donald Trump.
Miller, adopting a sarcastic tone of faux shock common to talk radio, dismissed Acosta’s mention of the Statue of Liberty as a symbol of America’s embrace of immigrants, and accused Acosta of “a cosmopolitan bias.” Guerrero says that phrase is no random insult, but a very specific line used by white nationalists—and one with long ties to white nationalists. As Politico reported at the time, “it’s a term that’s seldom been heard in American political discourse. But to supporters of the Miller-Bannon worldview, it was a cause for celebration. Breitbart, where Steve Bannon reigned before becoming Trump’s chief political strategist, trumpeted Miller’s ‘evisceration’ of Acosta and put the term in its headline. So did white nationalist Richard Spencer, who hailed Miller’s dust-up with Acosta as ‘a triumph.”
For all the Brothers and Sisters out there, who want to see police reform and think a Trump administration is going to deliver that, in an article from The Atlantic by McKay Coppins, Trump’s Right-Hand Troll,
Even from a young age, he said, crime stories on the news would upset him “on a core emotional level.” He bristled against the sort of “gentle rehabilitation programs” for convicts beloved by bleeding-heart Santa Monicans. “My core instinct was … to put them behind bars and keep them behind bars until they’re not a threat to anybody anymore.”
I can hear the Trump supporters saying, well at least Trump did something about prison reform. Stephen Miller couldn’t have had too much influence. I like to remind you that Trump’s First Step Act allowing second-chance opportunities and sentence reduction for federal inmates didn’t directly impact our community. Sure, there are some federal inmates of color that received a shortened sentence, however, 60% of federal inmates are white. The remaining 40% is broken down between African Americans, Latino’s and Asians. Most African Americans are in state prisons and county jails. The bottom line is, the more you dig into Trump and his administration, the more you’re not fooled by his promises to Black America.
For more information on Stephen Miller, check out this article from The Atlantic, Trump’s Right-Hand Troll.
