Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser in the Trump administration, sparked online backlash Tuesday night when he told Fox News the Democratic Party "controls its members through blackmail."

Miller joined Jesse Watters on his eponymous show to discuss the fallout of the resignations of Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Tony Gonzales (R-TX), who were both accused of sexual misconduct with staffers.

"Couldn't have happened to a better person," Miller quipped over Swalwell's "bad week."

Miller then lobbed a wild theory.

"The most important part about this story — and look, Swalwell is a scumbag, he is a terrible person, the worst of the worst, the lowest of the low, the most dishonest of the most dishonest — but the real story here," Miller said, pointing a finger, "is how the Democrat party controls its members through blackmail."

"It's got a blackmail file on all of its politicians and it uses them to leverage and control them until it's time to release it," Miller declared. "That is how sick and twisted the Democrat Party is."

The bizarre theory echoes similar conspiracies that have followed the Epstein case.

And the internet predictably had thoughts about the comments.

Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan replied, "Every Republican accusation is a confession."

Conservative attorney and Democratic Congressional candidate George Conway replied on X, ".@StephenM is a sick man, exhibit number 2,459,729."

Behavioral scientist Caroline Orr Bueno wrote on X, "Of course, Republicans would never blackmail each other. Putin is in charge of that."

"Jeopardy!" champion and YouTuber Hemant Mehta added, "Given that everything this administration says is projection…"

President Donald Trump's administration admitted on Tuesday to striking another foreign boat and killing four people, according to a new report.

The strike is the second in as many days, the New York Times reported, and marks the revival of one of the administration's most controversial policies. Since Trump began his second term, the administration has conducted 50 strikes against foreign boats, many of which were alleged to be carrying drugs. In all, the strikes have killed roughly 174 people.

"The U.S. Southern Command, led by Gen. Francis L. Donovan of the Marine Corps, announced the strike on social media with a 16-second video that showed a stationary boat floating in the water and then exploding," the report reads in part.

"Legal specialists on the use of lethal force have said the strikes are illegal, extrajudicial killings because the military cannot deliberately target civilians who do not pose an imminent threat of violence, even if those people are suspected of engaging in criminal acts," it added. "The Trump administration has not provided evidence of drug smuggling."

Noticeably absent from the Turning Point USA event in Georgia headlined by Vice President JD Vance was Erika Kirk, the widow of slain group founder Charlie Kirk — and she took to X on Tuesday to allege she had to back out due to security threats.

"I was so looking forward to tonight’s event at the @universityofga with our Vice President @JDVance, but after all our family has been through, I take my security team’s recommendations extremely seriously," she wrote. "Thank you to our amazing Georgia chapter for your support. God bless you all!"

A number of MAGA accounts expressed sympathy for her and rage at whoever was causing the security threat — but a large contingent also didn't believe her, headed up by fellow far-right influencer Candace Owens, who has for months pushed conspiracy theories that Erika Kirk may have had inside involvement in her husband's murder.

"Stop. This is exhausting," wrote Owens. "You pulled out because of bad ticket sales. For the same reason TPFaith had to 'reschedule' the Pastor’s Summit and various other events quietly."

"People don’t believe you and don’t line up for you because you struggle to tell the truth about even the most basic facts," she continued. "Where is the video of Charlie appointing you as CEO weeks before his death? The Secret Service sits above your security team. Were there actually a viable threat, the Vice President would not have continued the event. Your closest threat is the [expletive] Public Relations team you hired that continues to operate under the delusion that they are smarter than the public. They aren’t."

Owens wasn't alone, as a few other far-right accounts pushed their own skepticism.

"You take the recommendations of the security team that got your husband killed seriously?" wrote far-right account "Sword Truth."

"VP Vance said very clearly: Secret Service determined there was no credible threat. He said YOU felt insecure," wrote comedian, conspiracy theorist, and self-proclaimed "Christ-minded American Nationalist" Tommy Borum. "Your own vanity and insecurity, with your damaged ego, is why you didn't show up. You BALKED because you are caught in multiple lies that the public has connected."