Stephen Miller, as White House chief of staff, could give Vice President JD Vance the perfect pretext to reposition himself away from the administration and toward a 2028 run, former Trump administration DHS staffer Miles Taylor told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace.
“Maybe bookmark this conversation,” Taylor replied. “It could be that Stephen Miller is exactly what JD Vance needs.”
Vance, Taylor said, “needs a reason to say I didn’t go along with all of this.” He argued the vice president is “trying to do it on Iran,” but that it won’t work. “JD Vance has owned the Iran war,” Taylor said. “He’s been central to the negotiations.”
A Miller-driven crisis, Taylor suggested, could change that.
“Let’s say Stephen Miller pushes Donald Trump far beyond the bounds of the law. He already has,” he said. “But let’s say there’s an episode where they create [a] constitutional crisis and [it] gives JD Vance the reason to say, yeah, I can’t stay with this anymore and try to paint himself as a different person now.”
Vance would have “a hard time even selling that,” said Taylor, but added: “Believe me, Stephen’s going to give him ample opportunity.”
He drew on his time in the first administration. He said such proposals originated with Miller’s team, describing “things that our lawyers would tell us would violate the Constitution.” He added: “I have no interest in going to prison for Stephen Miller. I have no interest in going to prison for Donald Trump.”
What has changed, Taylor said, is Miller’s new post. “It doesn’t have to travel down the hallway to the Oval Office,” he said. “Those orders can sit on the Oval Office desk before anyone sees them.”
Ultimately, he added, “I do think we are in for a rockier two years than the first two years of the second Trump administration.”