Who is Stephen Miller, Mike Waltz’s possible successor?
Miller, a potential candidate to be the next White House national security adviser, has worked for Trump for nearly a decade. A Jewish political figure, he was an aide to Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, in the first Trump administration.
Miller, 39, is one of the few officials in Trump’s second administration who was also in the first administration and served all four years, which is very rare, according to Axios, given Trump’s temperament. He is also the author of some of Trump’s speeches, including his keynote speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
After Trump won the 2016 US presidential election, Miller became the national policy director of the president’s transition team and then became his senior adviser.
This figure in the US government is currently Trump’s deputy chief of staff and homeland security adviser. He is also known as the mastermind behind Trump’s crackdown on immigration.
Axios reporter Mark Caputo has noted in this regard that Miller is a staunch advocate for pushing for immediate deportation of immigrants without holding court hearings.
According to IRNA, following Donald Trump’s dismissal of Mike Waltz as White House National Security Advisor due to the Signal Gate scandal on May 1, speculation is rife that he will be replaced by Stephen Miller.
A veteran American journalist has announced that the National Security Council of the Donald Trump administration mistakenly added him to a secret group chat on the Signal messenger and shared information with him about airstrikes on Houthi positions (Ansar Allah) in Yemen.
Signal Gate refers to the incident in which Waltz added Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic, to a group that included the Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor, Secretary of State, Director of National Intelligence, and other senior US government officials via the encrypted messaging app Signal. This incident occurred before the US began its attacks on Yemen on March 11.