President Trump’s senior policy adviser, Stephen Miller, was on CNN this morning to talk politics but to mostly talk about Michael Wolff’s tell-all book, Fire and Fury. If you wanted to learn anything, you were disappointed. If you like your WWE spin-off on Sunday morning and between guys in suits instead of leotards and speedos, well you loved it.
To call this a contentious interview would be to do disservice to the word. Miller refused to even accept the premise of most of the questions directed at him. And Tapper gave contention right back to him.
The entire thing is a Rashomon exercise where what you see will completely validate what you believe.
Did Stephen Miller take CNN’s coverage of the Trump White House to the woodshed? If you want that to be the answer, there is ample evidence that he did. OR did the CNN host humiliate Miller? There is plenty of evidence to support that contention. How about a little of both? Probably the closest to the mark.
Watch the exchange that led to @jaketapper cutting off Stephen Miller this morning https://t.co/OhGbmzBH5z pic.twitter.com/6vHIjKUZV8
— Axios (@axios) January 7, 2018
CNN’s Tapper cuts off WH aide Miller: "I’ve wasted enough of my viewers’ time" https://t.co/9Imx671mfb pic.twitter.com/nBqXvLEKxc
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) January 7, 2018
CNN's Jake Tapper tells Stephen Miller that's he's filibustering to avoid answering his questions, being an "obsequious factotum" in order to please Trump, and he's wasted enough of the viewers' time.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) January 7, 2018
Also if you like, you know, ACTUALLY watch the interview, @jaketapper gave Miller a ton of time to say w/e he wanted. https://t.co/4aGgZKA7Me
— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 (@senatorshoshana) January 7, 2018
https://twitter.com/TheHirsty/status/950013905136508930
Hey Steven Miller, I feel ya, bro.🍋https://t.co/5fBRUy2PPm#caring
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) January 7, 2018
https://twitter.com/HersheSquirt/status/950032827294371842
THIS is how it’s done: “There’s one viewer you care about right now and you’re being obsequious.” pic.twitter.com/XjkkYdh5he
Stephen Miller Tapper
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) January 7, 2018
I think Axios’s Jonathan Swan called this one exactly right yesterday.
https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/949816703269163009
And mission accomplished:
Jake Tapper of Fake News CNN just got destroyed in his interview with Stephen Miller of the Trump Administration. Watch the hatred and unfairness of this CNN flunky!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2018
As Shoshana Weismann said:
Shot: @jaketapper: "There's one viewer that you care about right now…" https://t.co/6JkixljPbH
Chaser: https://t.co/4z71rAElAC
— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 (@senatorshoshana) January 7, 2018
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