The puppet master behind Trump’s mass immigration crackdown could soon take over as national security adviser in the wake of scandal-ridden Mike Waltz’s ouster.
Axios reported Friday that Stephen Miller could soon take over the role after Waltz was booted over his role in the “Signalgate” leak scandal, in which top members of the administration discussed classified details about an attack on Yemen on commercial messaging app Signal.
But one source told Axios that Miller—an immigration hardliner who has celebrated the deportation of undocumented immigrants without due process—won’t say yes “if it takes him away from his true love: immigration policy.”
Another confirmed that “if Stephen wants the job, it’s hard to see why Trump wouldn’t say yes.”
Trump fired Waltz Friday, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio is holding down the fort.
The MAGA star, known for his immigration “zero-tolerance” policy and who, on Thursday, went into an unhinged rant about the “war against cancerous, communist woke culture,” has expressed interest in the position.
Miller’s name surfaced shortly after Waltz was booted from the administration about a month and a half after he sparked national outrage for allowing national security leaks. The White House official inadvertently added a journalist to a Signal group chat that mentioned highly sensitive attack plan information in what’s now known as “Signalgate,” one of the administration’s greatest blunders thus far—and that’s saying something.
The post Trump’s Most Fanatical Soldier Tipped for National Security Adviser appeared first on The Daily Beast.
