The knives are coming out, and they’re aimed at Stephen Miller. The president said today that he disagreed with Miller’s claim that Alex Pretti was an “assassin,” and multiple sources told Axios that Miller dictated the most incendiary things Kristi Noem said about Pretti’s death.
Noted: Susie Wiles, Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt were all there when Donald Trump met with Noem and Corey Lewandowski last night. Miller was not.
Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats will initiate impeachment proceedings against Noem if Trump doesn’t fire her immediately.
Trump told reporters that Noem is “doing a very good job,” but he called Gregory Bovino — who was reportedly demoted yesterday — a “pretty out there kind of guy. And in some cases, that’s good. Maybe it wasn’t good here.”
The Republican backlash to Minnesota began when Kash Patel and other administration officials said that Americans can’t bring guns to protests.
Patel has backtracked, telling Sean Hannity he just meant that people should “be smart and be reasonable.” But Trump doubled down today, telling reporters: “You can’t walk in with guns, you can’t do that.”
This is just some face saving. There is no real backlash. No one is pulling out of Minnesota. The news is just trying to placate the anti-fascists. Nothing has really changed. Don’t let them fool you.
It’s to placate the NRA, not anti-fascists.
And if Trump is thinking of ditching Nosferatu, it’s probably for some unrelated petty personal reason such as Miller’s rimming technique not being perfect, or his making faces when Trump soils himself during a meeting.