"I was just following orders" won't protect you
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| Undated photo of Stephen Miller |
Well, well, well.
This story on arch-fiend Stephen Miller came across my feed last night. It seems that Temu Nosferatu is a bit worried about his life post-Derp Reich:
Stephen Miller has privately voiced a fear that pardon power won't be enough to protect him once President Donald Trump leaves office.
A new Zeteo profile of the White House deputy chief of staff, highlighted Wednesday by emptywheel's Marcy Wheeler, reported that Miller has told people he believes local and state prosecutors are out to put him in a "prison cell." As Zeteo pointed out, a federal pardon doesn't shut down state or local prosecutions the way it would a federal case.
Miller's worries reportedly go beyond criminal charges. According to Zeteo, he has also talked about civil lawsuits and congressional investigations, and he has expressed concern that a future Democratic administration could look for creative ways around Trump's clemency. He has also complained that the left will use "lawfare" to drain him and his wife, podcaster and former Trump official Katie Miller, financially for years to come.
Yes, it seems that poor man's Dracula is concerned that as his idol spends what days he has left protected by the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity, drooling and shitting himself around buxom blonde nurses, he and his harpy wife will be sued into penury, if they don't end up in a state prison.
And he would deserve it. As the Zeteo piece states:
Some of his associates in and close to the administration even accuse him of intentionally trying to push major U.S. cities to riot, to create a pretext for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, an early 19th-century law, so that he could send thousands of active-duty and National Guard troops to fully occupy those urban areas. One source directly familiar with Miller’s private deliberations tells Zeteo: “Stephen wanted to provoke a very strong response, so that the president would deploy troops.”
And, also from the Zeteo piece:
...Still, the degree to which Miller does not care about – or at least tolerates – the loss of human lives in the pursuit of his and President Trump’s policy vision has unnerved, or disturbed, some of his Republican colleagues, multiple Trump advisers and U.S. government officials recount.
You mean a man who has had an unhinged animus towards migrants since his days in high school doesn't care about the loss and destruction of human lives? Say it ain't so, Joe!
Miller should be afraid. Trump may pardon him. But if the auguries for this year's midterms are any indication, his life is over. One way or another, he and all of Trump's henchmen will be held to account. Whether that be through prosecution or civil lawsuits, justice will be meted out. What Miller and his ilk have done is not only to turn back the clock to America's darkest days of racial and ethnic oppression; no, they have done far worse. They have sought to enact a vision of America far worse, a dystopian realm where no one is secure in their persons, where your skin color marks you out in manner even worse than during the height of Jim Crow. Because, as the Zeteo piece states, Miller wanted to foment a civil war. He and his fellow-ruffians wanted to enrage the populace to such a degree that a violent insurrection would break out, giving the regime license to put it down and enact draconian measures. Instead, Americans protested robustly but peacefully, and any violence came from the state, which deployed its agents not to protect but to enflame.
We will never forget Miller and his devil wife. We will never let him, or Pete Hegseth, or Scott Bessent, or any other of that cabal live peacefully until they die. If the Lord's willing and the creek don't rise, November 2026 will be the first victory in the drive to roll up these scum. They have abrogated any right to be considered "American". Their Americanism is an even darker version of the antebellum South. They have betrayed not only the nation's ideals, but the nation itself; they have destroyed alliances; they have traduced the Constitution; and, if November is prologue, they will have lost. And the losers, this time, will have no say in the peace settlement. Whites in both North and South gravitated back towards each other in 1876 and delightedly condemned Black America to ninety years of slavery by another name. That will not be on the table this time.
"I was just following orders" didn't prevent Alfred Jodl from swinging from the gibbet. This is a lesson that Trump's circle should learn quickly.