President Trump’s senior policy adviser, Stephen Miller, was on CNN this morning to talk politics but to mostly talk about Michael Wolff’s tell-all book, Fire and Fury. If you wanted to learn anything, you were disappointed. If you like your WWE spin-off on Sunday morning and between guys in suits instead of leotards and speedos, well you loved it.
To call this a contentious interview would be to do disservice to the word. Miller refused to even accept the premise of most of the questions directed at him. And the CNN host got very personal in his dealings with Miller
The entire thing is a Rashomon exercise where what you see will completely validate what you believe. Did Stephen Miller take CNN’s coverage of the Trump White House to the woodshed? If you want that to be the answer, there is ample evidence that he did. Did the CNN host humiliate Miller? How about a little of both? There is plenty of evidence to support that contention.
Watch the exchange that led to @jaketapper cutting off Stephen Miller this morning https://t.co/OhGbmzBH5z http://pic.twitter.com/6vHIjKUZV8
— Axios (@axios) January 7, 2018
CNN’s Tapper cuts off WH aide Miller: "I’ve wasted enough of my viewers’ time" https://t.co/9Imx671mfb http://pic.twitter.com/nBqXvLEKxc
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) January 7, 2018
CNN's Jake Tapper tells Stephen Miller that's he's filibustering to avoid answering his questions, being an "obsequious factotum" in order to please Trump, and he's wasted enough of the viewers' time.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) January 7, 2018
Stephen Miller just tore apart Jake Tapper and CNN on Live TV.
OH MY GOODNESS http://pic.twitter.com/jMlOirHFJl
— Hirsty (@TheHirsty) January 7, 2018
Jake Tapper: “I'm trying to get to the issue of the president's fitness”
Stephen Miller: “I'm trying to get to the issue of your fitness”
— Jack Posobiec
(@JackPosobiec) January 7, 2018
THIS is how it’s done: “There’s one viewer you care about right now and you’re being obsequious.” http://pic.twitter.com/XjkkYdh5he
Stephen Miller Tapper
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) January 7, 2018
I think Axios’s Jonathan Swan called this one exactly right yesterday.
Easy prediction: Miller is going on CNN to publicly behead Steve Bannon for a gleeful audience of One. Trump wants every last person historically described as a Bannon ally to bury him on TV. Trump is telling people to choose between him and Bannon and everyone is choosing Trump. https://t.co/Zs85L95EFI
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) January 7, 2018
And mission accomplished:
Jake Tapper of Fake News CNN just got destroyed in his interview with Stephen Miller of the Trump Administration. Watch the hatred and unfairness of this CNN flunky!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2018
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