Stephen Miller's wife threatens political commentator with deportation during debate - Salon.com
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Miller floated an audit of a commentator's citizenship application on "Piers Morgan."

Katie Miller made a veiled threat to deport a political commentator during a heated debate about New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Thursday.

The wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller appeared on a panel of commentators on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.” While arguing with The Young Turks co-creator Cenk Uygur, the debate quickly turned ugly. The shouting match devolved into Miller questioning the validity of Uygur’s U.S. citizenship application.

Miller accused Uygur of “racist, bigoted rhetoric” around Israel and Uygur countered that Miller was a habitual liar. When Cenk floated the idea that Israel got a “pass” on committing genocide against Palestinians, Miller wondered if the Trump administration might need to take a closer look at his recently granted citizenship.

Miller cut in. “You better check your citizenship application and make sure everything is correct,” she said. “Because you’ll be just like Ilhan Omar.”

  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    “Because you’ll be just like Ilhan Omar.”

    Uh…wut? Anyone have some context for this bit of crazy?

      • lobut@lemmy.ca
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        2 days ago

        Just like Obama’s birth certificate. People love pretending they’re not racist when they’re obviously racist.

          • humorlessrepost@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 day ago

            I’ve been mistaken for “safe” plenty of times. They still don’t self-identify as racist.

            They’ll say things like “the blacks are just genetically more violent, and we need to protect ourselves by keeping them out of our town”, but that’s not “racist” because they’re “just telling the facts” that the libs try to force society to ignore.

            They think it’s equivalent to saying women tend to have less facial hair, which isn’t sexist, and we’re insisting that it is because we’re “woke” and living in denial because of that ideology.

            When they do admit to being racist, its tongue in cheek to make fun of their accusers, like if I were to call myself a “communist socialist liberal extremist”.

            God it feels icky steelmanning them, but it’s important to understand your enemy.

        • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
          11·
          2 days ago

          Because it’s far too easy to point out that Melania lied on her citizenship application, and she would be deported under that idea, too.

          Not that Trump would mind. It would enable him to start fucking his daughter, or Laura Loomer.

          • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
            12·
            2 days ago

            It would enable him to start fucking his daughter, or Laura Loomer.

            Marriage has never stopped him before. I wouldn’t expect it would now.

          • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            It would enable him to start fucking his daughter

            I don’t think that Melania’s presence stateside has anything to do with the legality of Trump having sex with his daughter.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_incest_in_the_United_States

            In all but two states (and the special case of Ohio, which “targets only parental figures”),[1] incest is criminalized between consenting adults. In New Jersey and Rhode Island, incest between consenting adults (16 or over for Rhode Island, 18 or over for New Jersey) is not a criminal offense, though marriage is not allowed in either state. New Jersey also increases the severity of underage sex offenses by a degree if they are also incestuous, and also criminalizes incest with 16-17 year olds (the normal age of consent in New Jersey is 16). Ohio allows incest between consenting adults only when one party is not a parental figure (see table below) to the other.

            So, that’d work in Rhode Island or New Jersey, as long as they don’t marry, but I don’t think that the public in either of those two states is too keen on Trump.

            EDIT: For context, note that I’m assuming that ubergeek is referencing this:

            He’s previously called her hot, saying she had the “best body” and speaking on The View even said “if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”