Top Trump adviser Stephen Miller absolutely lost it on live television on Monday over criticism that former federal prosecutor-turned-MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann had leveled at Donald Trump over the president’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport migrants.
Fox News’ Martha MacCallum played footage of Weissmann describing Trump’s legally questionable move as possibly unconstitutional because the act was really intended to be used when the United States is at war.
Anti-immigration hardliner Miller, the Trump White House deputy chief of staff for policy, exploded in anger, saying:
Andrew Weissmann is an absolute moron. He is a moron, and he is a fool, and he’s a degenerate. Andrew Weissman has devoted his career to putting innocent Americans in jail, taking away their civil liberties. He was involved in the Mueller coup against a democratically elected president, Donald J. Trump. Weissmann should never be on TV anywhere. He should hang his head in eternal shame for what he’s done to this country. And now he’s up there shilling for people who rape and murder Americans. That’s who Andrew Weissmann is.
“You can call Weissmann names and he can call you names, and that’s what’s great about living in America,” MacCallum told Miller as he wound down his initial rant.
Miller then became even more animated, shouting: “I will defend American lives working for President Trump and Andrew Weissmann can defend illegal alien rapists, terrorists, and predators. I’ve chosen my side.”
Miller similarly lost it before with CNN’s Brianna Keilar, who repeatedly had to tell him to “calm down.” And earlier this month, Miller melted down over a joke that was made about Trump on “Saturday Night Live.”