I changed the channel.
No, he is not an engineer, and I wish the papers would stop that practice.
Stephen Miller: A key engineer for Trump’s ‘America first’ agenda
By Rosalind S. Helderman February 11
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Miller stepped into the national spotlight after three white lacrosse players were falsely accused of rape in a case rife with racial tension. The players were eventually cleared and the local district attorney was disbarred for prosecutorial misconduct in the case. Miller wrote a series of columns about the case and appeared on national television to discuss it.
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Miller’s outspokenness in the lacrosse case first brought him to the attention of Richard Spencer, a white nationalist who was a Duke graduate student at the time. Spencer said he became friendly with Miller through the Duke Conservative Union in fall 2006. ... “He was very out in front, very bold and strong,” Spencer said in an interview.
Spencer last year told the Daily Beast that he was a “mentor” to Miller, which Miller has angrily denied. ... “I condemn him. I condemn his views. I have no relationship with him. He was not my friend,” Miller said. ... Miller noted that he served on campus as the executive director of the leading conservative group, which put him in contact with Spencer. “Our interaction was limited to the activities of the organization, of which he was a member, and thus ceased upon graduation,” Miller said.
But Spencer said that the two met frequently during their Duke days. As first reported by Mother Jones magazine, they both helped organize an immigration debate between Peter Brimelow, an anti-immigration activist whose website has been labeled a hate site by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Peter Laufer, who advocated for opening the southern U.S. border. Spencer praised Miller’s media savvy and organizational skills in advance of that event.
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Alice Crites contributed to this report.
Rosalind Helderman is a political enterprise and investigations reporter for the Washington Post. Follow
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