Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff behind the Trump administration's harsh immigration policies, "is the architect of a Murder Machine," according to a former GOP strategist.
The Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson wrote in his Substack Thursday that after months of escalating ICE attacks in American cities, the fatal shooting of 37-year-old mother and poet Renee Nicole Good has revealed the next phase of lies from Miller and Trump's loyalists.
"You thought the abuses would stay in the detention centers. You thought the violence was reserved for those without papers," Wilson wrote. "You were wrong. This is by design."
"The transition from 'deporting criminals' to 'executing citizens in the street' isn’t a slip-up; it’s the graduation ceremony. Miller wants the blood of Americans spilled because his power flows from the fear those crimson splashes create," he added.
Wilson argued that "Miller's instant trolling of the dead and mockery of the shock and horror Americans and the citizens of Minneapolis felt, set the tone for the Big Lie of Renee Nichole Good’s murder."
Miller has signaled that power is the ultimate goal and "the MAGA playbook: kill the victim, then kill their character. If you’re dead, you’re a terrorist. If you’re grieving, you’re an 'agitator,'" Wilson wrote.
"Miller, a man who carries the same curdled racial hatreds and bureaucratic cruelty as a Heydrich or a Beria, understands one thing: Terror is the only currency that matters. The goal of shooting a poet in the face in broad daylight isn’t 'border security,'” Wilson wrote.
"It’s to send a message to every American who thinks about protesting, or observing, or even just standing on their own damn street: We can kill you, we will lie about it, and no one will stop us," Wilson explained.
ICE agents have often been placed in the field with rushed training — carrying out Miller and the Trump administration's demands — and putting Americans at further risk.
"The men manning this machine are not 'heroes.' They are increasingly undertrained amateurs of low character, eager to express their loyalty to the regime with a bullet to the head, a baton across the skull, a bloody airbag, and a woman bleeding out while they block her from receiving medical care," Wilson wrote. "They are the 'masked men' who blocked medical aid to Good, denying a dying woman the chance to breathe while they staged their 'injured officer' performance for the cameras."