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The shadow president’s dangerous influence

The most dangerous person in Washington today is the shadow president, Stephen Miller. Hitler’s Nazi criminality is OK even though Miller’s Jewish family fled Europe to escape concentration camps and death. He appears to be Trump’s longest-serving consultant. His powerful position does not need Congressional approval. (It is doubtful he could get it.) He has become the voice and actor for white, anti-immigration forces. He holds sway over ICE, Border Control and the FBI.

Truth and facts mean nothing to him, as reflected in a statement he made in junior high school: “It doesn’t matter what the truth is, but how it makes people feel.” (“Hatemonger” – Guerrero biography)

He favors cruelty and brutality to achieve his end desire, removing all people of color from this country. He drafts Trump’s orders and directives on immigration and inserts his warped mind in many other spheres of influence. He has always belittled people of color from childhood through Duke University. He accepted no criticism for that or any other subject matter.

I am a graybeard, but my past includes being a field agent in the FBI, a senior trial attorney/supervisor for a Florida State Attorney, and a criminal defense attorney for 45 years. I saw many abuses of the law enforcement and judicial systems, but nothing like the scope of Trump/Miller’s destruction of our constitutional norms.

Trump will never dump this nerdish brainiac. He supports Miller/Vance justifications of the murders in Minneapolis as being within the killer’s “absolute immunity.” That’s “absolutely wrong!”

Arthur Neal Eggers

Hesperus