Posted on 12/29/2017 8:43:45 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Guess who's likely to stick around for all four or eight years, and will be empowered in 2018? Stephen Miller, the true-believer senior policy adviser, who trumps Trump on hardline immigration views — and may outlast almost everyone.
The two issues Miller cares and knows most about, immigration and trade, will be front and center.
And Miller channels (and believes) Trump campaign rhetoric more than anyone internally.
Although some of Miller's allies speculate that he could one day wind up as chief of staff, he's seen more as an advocate and adviser than manager or leader. He works super-hard, but doesn't delegate.
Some West Wing officials are putting pressure on economic adviser Gary Cohn to stay: He would be vital to a push for a big infrastructure package, one of the year's policy centerpieces. And he's a crucial goalie on trade.
But Wall Street sources tell us Cohn may depart.
Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell — like Cohn, a major moderating influence — has said she's leaving early next year.
Finding big establishment names to replace them will be hard, especially with the tax cut already in the win column.
If National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster leaves in the dominoes that would follow the expected departure of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, one possible replacement is hardliner John Bolton, who was U.S. ambassador to the U.N. under President George W. Bush.
(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...
As long as we don’t get Bush whacked..as in G.H.B.
Bolton was a good man.
The Bush Klan is despicable.
For those that could not bring themselves to vote for Trump in the primaries, let alone watch any of his rallies... Stephen Miller time and again laid out what to expect in a Trump administration...
Steve Miller is flying like an eagle.
Bolton is a big-government globalist and shouldn’t even be allowed in the White House with a tour group.
The pompatus of Trump?
I'm not confident that President Trump can get it done without Steve Miller. There's just too much treachery going on.
JMHO
Somebody get him a cheeseburger.
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Stephen Miller is the man....and I’m happy the Axios article made no mention of friction between Miller and Kelly, or McMaster. He’s s invaluable.
Miller as a hard-liner adviser is a great offset to any mushiness that might come from the Kushner family ...
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Agree Bolton a globalist and should snot be active in Trump administration.
I am not so sure of Miller’s hand in Trump’s speeches. What about Michael? Anton? His education is more classical than Miller’s
Agreed....don’t need a warmonger in the White House.
I really like this guy. I’ll never forget when he totally humiliated Jim Acosta
at a press briefing regarding immigration. I’m tearing up again just thinking about it.
I really like Stephen Miller.
I’d like to see Bolton as AG. People forget he made his bones @ Justice.
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