Opinion: End the charade. Appoint Stephen Miller to run DHS.
White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller at Joint Base Andrews on March 28. By Max Boot Max Boot Columnist covering national security Email Bio Follow Columnist April 8 at 3:05 PM This post has been updated. 6:20 p.m.
She gamely denied that the Russians had interfered in the 2016 election to help elect Trump, even though the intelligence community had concluded that they had. She defended Trump’s inexcusable defense of white nationalists at Charlottesville, insisting that “it’s not that one side was right and one side was wrong.” Worst of all, she enacted the barbarous policy of separating children from their migrant parents, while denying that she was doing so.
Someone had to be blamed for Trump’s failure to control the border, and Nielsen made a convenient scapegoat, along with Ronald D. Vitiello, whose nomination to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement was withdrawn on Friday. It is, of course, impossible to imagine that Trump could rethink his counterproductive approach to border security rather than simply shuffling the individuals implementing it.
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