Group: Miller’s emails are racist
WASHINGTON – Stephen Miller, a senior White House policy adviser, pushed white-nationalist material to staffers at Breitbart, a right-wing conservative website, through 2015 and leading up to the 2016 election, according to a report published by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The report released by the SPLC prompted calls from some in Congress for Miller to resign.
More than 900 emails between Miller and Breitbart were examined by SPLC’s Hatewatch. More than 80%
“relate to or appear on threads relating to the subjects of race or im- migration,” it said.
Miller is considered one of Trump’s main influences on immigration policies, including the Muslim travel ban and family separation policies at the Mexican border.
“Miller’s perspective on race and immigration across the emails is repetitious. When discussing crime, which he does scores of times, Miller focuses on offenses committed by nonwhites. On immigration, he touches solely on the perspective of severely limiting or ending nonwhite immigration to the United States,” the group writes.
Katie McHugh, the former Breitbart editor who leaked the emails to the SPLC, said, “What Stephen Miller sent to me in those emails has become policy at the Trump administration.” McHugh renounced her far-right views after being fired from the site in 2017 for anti-Muslim tweets.
The findings published by the SPLC include evidence that Miller pushed links from white supremacist site VDARE as an editorial basis for Breitbart articles, including links to articles about conspiracy theories like “white genocide,” a theory that claims nonwhite people are trying to eliminate the white race.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., tweeted that Miller “has been exposed as a bona fide white nationalist” and called for him to resign.
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said officials had not seen the report but called the SPLC “a far-left smear organization” whose members “libel, slander and defame conservatives for a living. They are beneath public discussion.”