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https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-insists-stephen-miller-does-not-play-with-dolls/
The White House would like the public to know that Stephen Miller definitely does not play with dolls.
Miller, who has driven some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial policies from his perch as deputy chief of staff for policy, was the focus of an unflattering Rolling Stone profile Sunday.
Inside the West Wing, the hot-tempered adviser is apparently a fixture of backroom chatter, with Trump officials and Republicans close to the president “paranoid that Miller will one day hear them gossiping about him behind his back.”
Among the longest-running digs, dating back to his time working for then-Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions during the Obama years: Republican staffers on Capitol Hill used to whisper that Miller “liked to play with porcelain dolls.”
Rolling Stone’s report on rumors of Miller’s doll play prompted an official White House denial.
“A White House official insists that any such characterization of his time on the Hill is “inaccurate and baseless gossip,” Rolling Stone wrote.
The outlet noted that the conservative staffers who spread malicious rumors about Miller “never dreamed that he’d ever amount to much more than a punch line or an obscure cautionary tale of what happens when you read too many far-right hate websites and dive into Washington’s most feverish swamps”—perhaps a marker of how deeply the GOP has transformed in the Trump era.
The White House would like the public to know that Stephen Miller definitely does not play with dolls.
Miller, who has driven some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial policies from his perch as deputy chief of staff for policy, was the focus of an unflattering Rolling Stone profile Sunday.
Inside the West Wing, the hot-tempered adviser is apparently a fixture of backroom chatter, with Trump officials and Republicans close to the president “paranoid that Miller will one day hear them gossiping about him behind his back.”
Among the longest-running digs, dating back to his time working for then-Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions during the Obama years: Republican staffers on Capitol Hill used to whisper that Miller “liked to play with porcelain dolls.”
Rolling Stone’s report on rumors of Miller’s doll play prompted an official White House denial.
“A White House official insists that any such characterization of his time on the Hill is “inaccurate and baseless gossip,” Rolling Stone wrote.
The outlet noted that the conservative staffers who spread malicious rumors about Miller “never dreamed that he’d ever amount to much more than a punch line or an obscure cautionary tale of what happens when you read too many far-right hate websites and dive into Washington’s most feverish swamps”—perhaps a marker of how deeply the GOP has transformed in the Trump era.
