Stephen Miller Breaks Out the Crayons for Awesome Schooling of CNN Host

Looks like the Trump team is taking no prisoners and no guff when it comes from CNN.

From President Donald Trump on down, his team is schooling the network when they try to skew or spin what is going on.

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This week, as our Townhall sister site explained, it was Stephen Miller's turn to break out the crayons with host Brianna Keilar. Miller took apart the false premise that somehow it's illegal or improper for the president to appoint people to operate in the executive branch. You actually have some insane folks on the left calling that a "coup." Miller was having none of it.

Stephen Miller has to whip out the crayons to explain how the federal government and presidential advisers work.

"I understand that even a temporary interruption in federal employment is a great crisis and catastrophe for you and CNN." pic.twitter.com/lVudki9XHe
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Miller detailed how DOGE had previously been created [under Barack Obama] as the U.S. Digital Service and which is part of the Executive Office of the President that reports to the president. He explained that's how Article II works, that the president gets to appoint staff.

Keilar replied curtly, "Well aware." Miller then grinned, and you could tell he was thinking, "Well, no, you aren't, otherwise you wouldn't be asking me these questions."

Keilar tries to be divisive, asking if Elon Musk knows he's "not in charge" of DOGE? She's a real prize. Elon knows everything has to be cleared through the EOP and the president. That doesn't mean he doesn't get to say "we" about what his team is finding.

Miller replies with a little snark, explaining that this is how things work when the president is elected by the people and then appoints staff to put his policy into effect.

Then she repeated a CNN story about 300 federal employees fired from the National Nuclear Security Administration. The Department of Energy already disputed this characterization saying there was less than 50 people. They also appeared to be probationary people, so one would think hardly critical. He also laid to rest the idea that somehow it's just Elon cutting randomly, but that it would go through the Energy Secretary. There's a DOGE team in each agency that has agency personnel including an HR person and a lawyer, to make sure they're evaluating what's happening. "I understand that even a temporary interruption in federal employment is a great crisis and catastrophe for you and CNN," Miller said, noting that the American people are getting it.

Then Miller came back at her about transparency, asking if she had any idea where the $22 billion that Joe Biden spent on illegal aliens went? Now, that's one heck of a great question, a question she doesn't know the answer to, because they never held Joe Biden to account. That's enough to provide a house to every homeless veteran in America, he explained, "Joe Biden spent it, and now, It's gone." Transparency is having an accounting over every dollar spent, he exclaimed.

Miller went on to say that Trump was committed to "restoring accountability at every level of the federal government" while Keilar sat there looking sullen.

"Why are you not celebrating these cuts!? If you agree there is waste, if you agree there is abuse, if you agree there is corruption, why are you not celebrating the cuts, the reforms that are being instituted!?

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"Why are you not celebrating these cuts!? If you agree there is waste, if you agree there is abuse, if you agree there is corruption, why are you not celebrating the cuts, the reforms that are being instituted!?" Miller exhorted her.

Keilar says she doesn't want to have a debate about whether waste exists. But that's the problem -- you don't want to have that out there. He responded he was going to be as excited as he wanted to be about saving the money for the people from a "rogue federal bureaucracy."

She pitched the "privacy" thing -- another Democratic talking point. Miller shot that down.

Stephen Miller gets fed up with CNN's Brianna Keilar:

"The federal government will find every illegal alien who is stealing American taxpayer dollars, and that's what Americans expect to happen! I don't even fathom the premise of your question." pic.twitter.com/3bsrM8j2U3
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But the government that has been misusing our money already has our information. So this seems like such a silly argument. Why should I care about Elon seeing my information when I trust him more than the folks who have already had access to it? Why should a billionaire care about my small change? It doesn't make any sense but they really can't trump the very popular desire to clean up the government.

Keilar bizarrely asks him if they are looking in the IRS data for whether illegal aliens are ripping us off. Um, is that wrong if they were? What the heck? He really went off on her there, asking essentially if she wanted to give illegal aliens a pass for committing felonies. "The difference is no one is given permission to break the law anymore," he said, finishing off Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Keilar then backpedaled a bit, saying they weren't taking a position here, to which he replied, "It doesn't sound to me like you are indifferent or unbiased on these questions."

Bingo. The American people aren't playing anymore.