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Early life

 * Steve Miller was born c. 1985.
 * liberal-leaning Jewish family (parents Democrats) in Santa Monica, California.


 * He read National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre's 1994 book Guns, Crime, and Freedom, and became a conservative.

"Or, better yet, we could have lived with the Indians, learning how to finger paint and make tepees, excusing their scalping of frontiersmen as part of their culture. Forget about being the nation that stopped Hitler, brought communism to its knees, and feeds more hungry people around the world than any other country -- forget all of that, and let us just agree that we're a horrible nation. Or, we can raise our flags, lift our guns, and proclaim that we are Americans, that we enjoy personal freedoms Islamic nations could only dream about, we are the land of the free, the home of the brave."

- Miller March 2002 Letter to the editor The Santa Monica Evening Outlook

Santa Monica High School

 * September 11, 2001 When he was 16-years-old


 * Santa Monica High School Grade nine -


 * In February or March 2002, he a guest on the "the conservative talk show", the Larry Elder Show, where he discussed "the rampant political correctness that has consumed Santa Monica High School and the entire Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District."
 * March 2002 At sixteen, he explained
 * his disillusionment in a letter to the editor of The Santa Monica Evening Outlook with his high school describing how, when he had "entered Santa Monica High School in ninth grade" he was appalled at the bilingual policy at the school and blamed this on the lack of literacy skills of Spanish-speaking class mates. "As politically correct as this may be, it demeans the immigrant population as incompetent, and makes a mockery of the American ideal of personal accomplishment."
 * Their pacifist response to 9/11

Subsequently, he invited conservative activist David Horowitz to speak. When the school refused he denounced the high school.

Yale years

 * 2006 Duke lacrosse case criminal case national attention for his defense of the students who were wrongly accused of rape While attending Duke University, Miller accused the poet Maya Angelou of "racial paranoia" and described student organization Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán (MEChA) as a "radical national Hispanic group that believes in racial superiority."

2007 Miller and the Duke Conservative Union helped co-member Richard B. Spencer, a Duke graduate student at the time, with fundraising and promotion for an immigration policy debate in March 2007 between the open-borders activist and University of Oregon professor Peter Laufer and journalist Peter Brimelow, the founder of the anti-immigration website VDARE. Spencer would later become an important figure in the alt-right movement and president of the anti-Semitic and white supremacist National Policy Institute. Reports in the media said Spencer had mentored Miller while at Duke. Miller says he has "absolutely no relationship with Mr. Spencer" and that he "completely repudiate his views, and his claims are 100 percent false." A contemporary of Spencer and Miller at Duke disputed the mentorship claim. Spencer later said the relationship had been exaggerated.

Duke University's former senior vice president, John Burness, told The News & Observer in February 2017 that, while at Duke, Miller "seemed to assume that if you were in disagreement with him, there was something malevolent or stupid about your thinking — incredibly intolerant." History professor KC Johnson, however, criticized Duke for "not [having] an atmosphere conducive to speaking up," and praised Miller's role at Duke: "I think it did take a lot of courage, and he has to get credit for that."


 * 2007 At 25-years of age (2007) he received his bachelor's degree from Duke University, majoring in political science. Philosophy?

Employment

 * c. 2007 - 2009? worked as a press secretary for Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Congressman John Shadegg, both members of the Republican Party.
 * 2009 Worked for Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions in 2009, rising to the position of communications director.

Wrote many of Sessions' speeches in the 113th Congress, Miller played a major role in defeating the bi-partisan Gang of Eight's proposed immigration reform bill.


 * 2014 He and Sessions developed "nation-state populism," a response to globalization and immigration that would strongly influence Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.


 * 2014 Miller also worked on Dave Brat's successful 2014 House campaign, which unseated Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016

 * January 2016 He joined Trump's campaign for president, as a senior policy adviser. Bannon from Breitbart News Network, was Trump's campaign chief executive Stephen Bannon [Miller is surprisingly not mentioned in this Wikipedia article].


 * March 2016, He served as Trump's "warm-up act".


 * Cleveland, July 21, 2016. He wrote Trump's 75-minute 2016 Republican National Convention speech.

"Our convention occurs at a moment of crisis for our nation. The attacks on our police, and the terrorism in our cities, threaten our very way of life. I will restore law and order to our country. Believe me. Believe me"

- Miller's 2016 Republican National Convention speech


 * We cannot afford to be so politically correct anymore. So if you want to hear the corporate spin, the carefully-crafted lies, and the media myths.


 * Homicides last year increased by 17 percent in America’s fifty largest cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years. nation’s capital, killings have risen by 50 percent. They are up nearly 60 percent in nearby Baltimore. In the President’s hometown of Chicago more than 2,000 people have been the victims of shootings this year alone. And almost 4,000 have been killed in the Chicago area since he took office. The number of police officers killed in the line of duty has risen by almost 50 percent compared to this point last year.


 * Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens.


 * border-crosser was released and made his way to Nebraska. There, he ended the life of an innocent young girl named Sarah Root. She was 21 years-old,

Our 2015 trade deficit is $800 billion

Obama has doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion

forty-three million Americans are on food stamps

sailors being forced to their knees by their Iranian captors at gunpoint. This was just prior to the signing of the Iran deal, which gave back to Iran $150 billion

Obama drew a red line in Syria

Libya, our consulate in flames Ambassador and his staff were left helpless to die at the hands of savage killers

In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map. Libya was stable. Egypt was peaceful. Iraq was seeing a reduction in violence. Iran was being choked by sanctions. Syria was under control.

plan will put America first. Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo

safety at home – which means safe neighborhoods, secure borders, and protection from terrorism. There can be no prosperity without law and order

millions of new jobs and trillions in new wealth that can be used to rebuild America.

some of our nation’s most powerful special interests [will oppose trumps plan]. That is because these interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit. Believe me it’s for their benefit. Big business, elite media and major donors are lining up behind the campaign of my opponent

When innocent people suffer, because our political system lacks the will, or the courage, or the basic decency to enforce our laws – or still worse, has sold out to some corporate lobbyist for cash

And when a Secretary of State illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can’t see her crime, puts our country at risk, lies about it in every different form and faces no consequence – I know that corruption has reached a level like never ever before in our country. When the FBI Director says that the Secretary of State was “extremely careless” and “negligent,” in handling our classified secrets

I am the Law and Order candidate.The first task for our new Administration will be to liberate our citizens from the crime and terrorism and lawlessness that threatens their communities. America was shocked to its core when our police officers in Dallas were so brutally executed. Immediately after Dallas, we have seen continued threats and violence against our law enforcement officials. Law officers have been shot or killed in recent days in Georgia, Missouri, Wisconsin, Kansas, Michigan and Tennessee.

irresponsible rhetoric of our President, who has used the pulpit of the presidency to divide us by race and color, has made America a more dangerous environment failed America’s inner cities. It’s failed them on education.

France brutal Islamic terrorism Islamic radicals world trade center, San Bernadino, at the Boston Marathon, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Orlando, Florida, 49 wonderful Americans were savagely murdered by an Islamic terrorist targeted our LGBTQ community

This includes working with our greatest ally in the region, the State of Israel.

NATO obsolete because it did not properly cover terror. many of the member countries not paying their fair share. As usual the United States has been picking up the cost. Shortly thereafter, it was announced that NATO would be setting up a new program in order to combat terrorism.

My opponent has called for a radical 550 percent increase in Syrian She proposes this despite the fact that there’s no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from

Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers.

We are going to build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities. I have been honored to receive the endorsement of America’s Border Patrol Agents, and will work directly with them to protect the integrity of our lawful, lawful immigration System. By ending catch-and-release on the border, we will stop the cycle of human smuggling and violence.

Yet Hillary Clinton is proposing mass amnesty, mass immigration, and mass lawlessness.

I have made billions of dollars in business making deals – now I’m going to make our country rich again using the greatest business people in the world, which our country has. I am going to turn our bad trade agreements into great ones.

America has lost nearly-one third of its manufacturing jobs since 1997, following the enactment of disastrous trade deals supported by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Remember it was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA,

Excessive regulation is costing our country as much as $2 trillion a year, and we will end it very, very quickly. We are going to lift the restrictions on the production of American energy. This will produce more than 20 trillion dollars in job creating economic activity over the next four decades.

We will rescue kids from failing schools by helping their parents send them to a safe school of their choice.

My opponent wants to essentially abolish the second amendment. I, on the other hand, received early and strong endorsement of the National Rifle Association. And will protect the right of all Americans to keep their families safe.


 * August 2016 Trump named him head his economic policy team.

Steve Bannon

Presidential transition of Donald Trump
Trump's transition team

Inauguration
January 20, 2017 He helped write Trump's inauguration speech.Trump "insisted publicly that he wrote his own speech," although the Wall Street Journal and others reported that it had been written by Trump senior aides Stephen Miller and Steven Bannon.

The speech struck a tone that was both nationalist and populist. The Los Angeles Times described the address as a "a truncated version of Trump's campaign rally addresses, absent specific policy and big on a sense of anger at what he defined as a ruling class that has raided America for its own benefit." Historians and speechwriters termed the inaugural address as "one of the most ominous" in U.S. history, striking a dark and bleak note. Trump pledged to end what he referred to as "American carnage," depicting the United States in a dystopian light&mdash;as a "land of abandoned factories, economic angst, rising crime"&mdash;while pledging "a new era in American politics."

Fact-checking organizations, such as FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and the Washington Post's Fact Checker noted that Trump's portrayal of the United States in decline "did not always match reality." The fact-checking organizations noted, among other things, that the U.S. violent crime rate was far below its 1991 peak; that the U.S. economy had gained jobs for 75 consecutive months and that unemployment was significantly below its historical average; and participation in U.S. welfare programs had declined.

In the speech, Trump repeated his campaign-trail "America First" slogan in reference to economic and foreign policy issues. Trump's use of the phrase was controversial because of the slogan's association with U.S. isolationists who had opposed the American entry in World War II. Trump's decision "not to make a strong case for the role of American power in shaping the outside world was a departure from the inaugural addresses of recent Republican presidents from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush," and represented "a sharp break with the internationalist vision of nearly every U.S. president of the past 100 years that troubled veteran foreign policy experts." Nevertheless, Trump's themes on foreign policy appealed "to many Americans as well as to critics of Washington’s bipartisan foreign policy establishment."

Executive order 13769

 * He and Bannon were involved in the creation of Executive Order 13769, which results in restricted U.S. travel and immigration by individuals from seven countries, suspends the United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) for 120 days, and indefinitely suspends entry of Syrians to the United States.

Engagement with press
On February 12, 2017, he appeared on CBS' Face the Nation,
 * criticized the federal courts for blocking Trump's travel ban, stating: "... we have a judiciary that has taken far too much power and become, in many cases, a supreme branch of government... Our opponents, the media and the whole world will soon see as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned." Miller's assertion was met with criticism from legal experts, such as Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute (who said that the administration's comments could undercut public confidence in the judiciary) and Cornell Law School professor Jens David Ohlin (who said that the statement showed "an absurd lack of appreciation for the separation of powers" set forth in the Constitution).


 * unsubstantiated accusations of significant voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election and that "thousands of illegal voters were bused in" to New Hampshire; independent investigations into such claims have determined them to be false. Miller refused to provide any evidence in support of his accusations.


 * Stephen Colbert challenged Miller, who said he is “prepared to go on any show, anytime, anywhere”, to appear on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Colbert proposed the date of February 14, 2017, but Miller didn't show up.

David Horowitz
While still in high school, Miller invited conservative activist David Horowitz to speak. When the school refused he denounced the high school. He also invited Horowitz to speak at Yale and denounced Yale for refusing. Miller served as president of the Duke chapter of Horowitz's Students for Academic Freedom and wrote conservative columns for the school newspaper.

Nation-state populism
Between 2009 and 2016?? He and Sessions developed what Miller describes as "nation-state populism," a response to globalization and immigration that would strongly influence Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.