-President Donald Trump announced White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller will be promoted to chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles.

-Miller will take over starting Monday, Trump said in a Truth Social post.

-Wiles “will be moving over to the Trump Political Operation,” the president wrote.

President Donald Trump on Friday announced White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller will be promoted to chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles.

Trump revealed the stunning shake-up just three days after Democrats won a landslide victory in the midterm elections, gaining majority control in the House and Senate and scrambling the trajectory of Trump’s last two years in office.

Elevating Miller, an architect or Trump’s controversial mass-deportation efforts, is bound to raise the hackles of the incoming class of congressional Democrats, who have already vowed to investigate the government’s immigration policies.

Miller will take over starting Monday, Trump said in a Truth Social post, praising his longtime aide as “one of my most trusted advisors.”

Wiles, “who has done an outstanding job, will be moving over to the Trump Political Operation,” the president wrote.

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[–] 22 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Miller is the worst kind of white-nationalist/Christian-nationalist. I suspect he's now going to be acting as the de facto president while holding up the Trump sock-puppet from time to time and overseeing (and covering up) Trump's mental and physical decline over the next couple of years. All that while turning the American Fascism knob up to 11. The guy is truly terrifying.

He's one of the main brains of the Trump-era dismantling of democracy and dismantling of the State in general (except for the military of course). I expect that right now he's meeting with Republicans to finalize the plan to refuse to seat all new Democratic Congress-people.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    except for the military

    The military is being dismantled though, in terms of competence, leadership, ethics (such as they are), readiness, logistics, morale, and credibility. He is, however, succeeding in massively speeding up the militarization of agencies that are supposed to be law enforcement, because that’s how you build a paramilitary secret police force.

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    I was not aware of that. I guess all of his anti-Islam and anti-immigration (that is to say, non-white, non-English-speaking, non-Christian/Jewish immigration) meant he was a Christian Nationalist but that might not necessarily be the case. He might just be 99% aligned with them in terms of goals.

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