'I literally gasped': Stephen Miller's wife's racist joke blows away legal analyst
A social media post by the wife of Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller took center stage on MS NOW on Friday morning as part of a discussion over a controversial Supreme Court ruling on Thursday.
On “Morning Joe,” the panel was discussing the majority opinion from Justice Sam Alito, who wrote that he saw nothing racist in Trump’s outrageous comments about Somali and Haitian immigrants, which earned the conservative jurist a lecture from Justice Elena Kagan in her dissent.
As the segment was wrapping up, co-host Jontahn Lemire asked legal analyst Lisa Rubin about Katie Miller inserting herself into the national conversation with her remark on X.
“Lisa, I'm going to go to the Rev [Al Sharpton] with a question, but before I do, Katie Miller, the wife of Stephen Miller, who is the architect of this policy, tell our viewers her response.”
“Yeah, I mean this was racist going in and it was racist coming out,” Rubin replied, “Because Katie Miller yesterday wrote that his was a ‘great day for the dogs and cats of Springfield.’”
“When I read that at my desk, I literally gasped so loudly that half the reporters in my line of the newsroom looked around to see what I was reacting to,” she recalled.
“A reminder, of course, it was Springfield, Ohio — that was the conspiracy theory ahead of the 2024 election, that Haitians were attacking the pets of that hometown,” Lemire offered before adding, “Stephen Miller did a victory lap yesterday. Other voices on the right, Megan Kelly in particular, said some pretty loathsome racist things you know, about this celebration, celebrating this decision.”
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