Tim Miller and Sam Stein of The Bulwark ripped the recent excuses one of President Donald Trump's top advisors offered in defense of the administration's efforts to deploy federal troops to cities nationwide.
Stein and Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, traded barbs on social media over the weekend over the administration's efforts to deploy troops. Miller called Stein "repugnant" for supporting "violent extremists" attempting to "nullify the 2024 election."
Miller and Stein discussed the altercation on the latest episode of "Bulwark Takes."
"The quality of these tweets from Stephen are getting more breathless in their hyperbolicness and they're just totally crazy," Stein said. "They're not even tweets anymore; they're diatribes."
"He's been tweeting a lot about like the country being under attack, and he's been given this portfolio to handle domestic terrorism, and basically the backstory is that he thinks we're in the middle of some sort of domestic terrorism incident and that it should just justify the state suppression of these terrorists," Stein added.
Recently, the Trump administration has sought to deploy troops to Chicago and Portland. The administration has claimed that there are violent protests against immigration operations.
A federal judge ruled last week that the administration could not send troops to Portland because they did not show that there was an emergency justifying the deployment.
Miller also had a hard time buying Miller's reasoning.
"If that's true, then f------come down as hard on those people as possible," Miller said. "What are you talking about? That does not justify harassing people who are peacefully protesting outside an ICE office, or like harassing people just because they look brown."
"Get to the real deal," he added.
