Trump senior policy adviser and ambulatory mugshot Stephen Miller took to the Sunday shows yesterday to lie about election fraud again and generally remind Americans that our fate lies in the hands of multiple incompetent psychopaths.
Oh, and he also wanted to remind Americans that despite all the things our Constitution may or may not say, they will soon learn that their current president has absolute authoritarian power.
Face the Nation host John Dickerson: When I talked to Republicans on The Hill, they wonder, what in the White House -- what have you all learned from this experience with the executive order?
Miller: Well, I think that it’s been an important reminder to all Americans that we have a judiciary that has taken far too much power and become in many case a supreme branch of government. [...]
The end result of this, though, is that our opponents, the media and the whole world will soon see as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned.
We're going to put that down as the White House has learned nothing from this experience, by the way.
While Miller's performances were praised by his boss—which is, after all, the only audience Trump's television-bound advisers target their remarks toward—the man's remarkable stream of lies, misinformation, and eyebrow-raising statements are causing the rest of us to wonder whether we'll be seeing much more of him on television in the future. (I'm also not sure Miller's Silence of the Lambs interview style is something America needs to eat breakfast to on Sunday mornings; cut us a bit of slack here in the future, networks.)
But Miller isn't playing on this one.
He comes to the job from a role being similarly (ahem) vigorous and crooked on behalf of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, has been a lifelong extremist in the mold of Sessions, Bannon, etc, and along with Bannon is credited for the Trump team's most incendiary first policy moves. It's very likely he indeed believes that the executive orders of the president of the United States will not be questioned, courts or no courts.
He will, barring the collapse of the rule of law in this country, be proven wrong.