After a member of Pastors for Trump said he personally demanded that President Donald Trump fire a staffer who the White House claimed was responsible for posting a racist video of Barack and Michelle Obama, an investigative reporter flagged a potential culprit.
Bipartisan fury burned ahead of the weekend after Trump published a video on his Truth Social account in which the last few seconds contained the offensive Obama images. Pastor Mark Burns made comments about a "staffer" that stood out.
"The President made it clear to me that this post was made by a staffer and not by him. My recommendation to the President was direct and firm. That staffer should be fired immediately, and the President should publicly condemn this action," Burns wrote. "This kind of insensitive and racist communication does not reflect the heart, values, or leadership of the President of the United States, nor does it represent the America we are striving to build."
According to an investigative reporter with experience in the area, it's entirely possible that the staffer is the controversial White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
Seizing on Burns' comments, reporter Jason Leopold noted, "YEARS ago, I obtained documents via #FOIA from the Mueller investigation that revealed Stephen Miller sometimes wrote Trump's tweets."
The investigative reporter also included a screenshot from FOIA records that stated, "Miller would draft a variety of twitter messages for Trump, Trump would put a check by the ones he wanted, and [Dan] Scavino would send out the tweets."