Who is Stephen Miller, the Jewish adviser behind Trump's 'American carnage' inaugural address?

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Who Is Stephen Miller, the Jewish

Adviser Behind Trump's 'American
Carnage'?
Miller, the 31-year-old, who grew up in a liberal
home in Santa Monica, California, was Trumps
chief speechwriter throughout the campaign and
reportedly a good friend of controversial white
nationalist Richard Spencer.
Haaretz Jan 22, 2017 2:33 PM

Donald Trump and speech writer Stephen Miller. Brendan SMIALOWSK, Drew Angerer, AFP

President Trumps inauguration speech was written by two of the presidents

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closest aides, Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, and not Donald Trump himself,
the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

A White House ocial told the Journal that Trump, who aides had touted would
write the speech himself, even posting a photo of the president-elect doing so on
social media, had entrusted his speech writer and chief counsel with the text.

Both Miller and Bannon, the former executive chair of Breitbart News, have
been at the forefront of Trump's populist messaging. Miller, who wrote Trump's
speech at the Republican National Convention, was accused of promoting a
dystopian view of America, a theme carried through in Trump's inaugural
address, in which Trump referred to crime, poverty and the disappearing
manufactuing base in the country as "American carnage."

Miller, the 31-year-old, who grew up in a liberal home in Santa Monica,

California, was Trumps chief speechwriter throughout the campaign, a role he
has been tapped to continue in the White House. Miller is known for his ability
to provoke his audience - he often stirred up the crowds at campaign rallies
before Trump would take the stage.

Miller is an old friend of the controversial white nationalist leader Richard

Spencer, Mother Jones reported in December. The two met while they were
students at Duke University, both of them members of the conservative student
union. Spencer told the magazine that Miller is not alt-right or a white
nationalist or an identitarian. But he added: Could Miller and Trump do good
things for white Americans? The answer is yes.

When announcing Miller as senior adviser to the president for policy back in
December, Trump noted in a statement that Miller had played a central and
wide-ranging role in the campaign. He is deeply committed to the America
First agenda, and understands the policies and actions necessary to put that
agenda into eect." "America First," was one of the central themes of Trump's
January 20th inaugural address.

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Trump's address quickly drew fire from the media as commentators pointed out
its divisive and dark language. CNN's Jake Tapper's immediate reaction to the
speech was to call it, "one of the most radical inaugural speeches we've ever
heard." While NBC's Chuck Todd said, "It is shockingly divisive. I was surprised,
because I thought it was unnecessarily divisive" and Tom Brokaw commented
that it was, "Short on elegance; long on bombast. It didn't have the poetry."

The Washington Post tracked the text of the speech and found some words
unique to Trump's address. "Words Donald Trump said for the first time in any
U.S. inaugural address": bleed carnage depletion disagreements
disrepair flush infrastructure Islamic lady landscape overseas
ripped rusted sad solidarity sprawl stealing stolen subsidized
tombstones trapped trillions tunnel unrealized unstoppable
urban wind-swept.

Gone Viral

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