"Why are you yelling?” the reporter asked as Trump’s senior adviser refused to clarify the source of information he was spreading about Venezuela’s crime rate.
Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller had an on-camera meltdown after being asked by a journalist to back up questionable claims he was making about Venezuela’s crime rate, video of the episode posted to social media shows.
The four-minute video shows an emotional Miller yelling at NTN24 reporter José María del Pino on Tuesday after del Pino questioned Miller over his claims that Venezuela has become safer than the United States because its convicts are now all in the U.S.
Miller also repeated a since-debunked story that a Venezuelan gang has taken over Colorado apartment complexes.
Genuinely, that’s one of the most impressive examples of a serious journalist being an absolute fucking pitbull on a question, and as a result making the populist idiot spewing racist bile look like a complete imbecile, and laying bare the fact that he’s very obviously trying to push an agenda. Miller even fuckin pivots to MS-13 - an El Salvadoran gang (but all look same amirite /s) - because he realized he’s floundering, and reflexively reaches for more pathos of the “scary Latin people” conservative trope. Truly, this is an incredible interaction to watch. And the expressions of the people in the background are like “wow holy fuck lil’ fascist Stevie is getting OWNED”.
The worst part is the racist cult Miller is performing for will see the interview and ask why the reporter wasn’t as angry as Miller.
Eh. The actual answer to that question is “he’s genuinely good at and cares about his job as a journalist”. Simple as that.
You’re trying to apply logic and values as a reply to a comment saying that those values and logic don’t exist.
That is an answer for reasonable people, and they already know.
He is also making such a bs argument. Does anybody believe that Maduro lets out criminals in the hope that they will cross the Dorian gap to go to the US? That makes no sense. It’s much more likely that those criminals, once let out of prisons, remain in Venezuela.
Seeing his reaction to facts and logic is like watching a cartoon robot’s reaction to a logic bomb.
Hats off to how professionally calm José María kept his voice on the follow up questions, making it clear that Miller was pretending to be outraged. A calm question after an angry rant meant Miller would start quiet again and have to dial his pretend rage back up. You could see Miller catch himself not being angry enough!
Fantastic!
Oh fuck, was that a journalist actually doing his job?
I almost forgot what that looks like.
Amazing to see what happens when someone sticks to a line of questioning and doesn’t just move on
I…what? I’ve never seen this happen, and a lot of recent events have me questioning my ability to tell waking from dreaming…
Hard to know if “journalism” exist at all anymore… this could be some random food blogger who got a media pass and accidentally asked a good question… you wouldn’t be able to know the difference.
It exists, you just don’t see it much in the US where corporations run the show.
It also beautifully displayed how fragile they are. Just push them a tiny bit and they go apoplectic that you don’t just swallow their bullshit like their eager sycophants.
Yeah, it’s very easy to set them off and make them lose it by just being consistent and not backing down or following their rambling.
This reporter showed exactly how every question put to them should be handled.
haha - what a dumb insecure little pathetic fuck of a nazi dipshit…
I love the reporter not letting it go so the little manchild is losing it.
Pee Wee German won’t have a home after November
Steven Miller is a mega-racist pile of hot garbage. I would expect no less.
Reporters just need to do exactly what this guy does… Press them on their “facts.” I love it how badly Miller loses it.
Miller is literally a Nazie. Dude will say anything to kill, enslave, deport, or incarcerate anyone who does not fit his perfect all white Christian America. Anything he says by default is to be scrutinized and shouted down.
It is amazing to me that these assholes will say “thoughts and prayers” or completely deny that things happened when it comes to schoolchildren being murdered in their classrooms, but expect people to be filled with righteous anger when it comes to brown people entering the country. If school shootings are a “fact of life” in America, assuredly immigration is a “fact of life” here…and it is one that has the advantage of being beneficial to the country.
Another thing that irritates me is that these babbling gobs (and particularly this caricaturistic, flanderized bobble head) prevent actual debate around how immigration should function in this country…ensuring that we will continue to be told by the media that there are only two positions on immigration: become a country that nobody new can enter even as we dwindle in population and inventiveness, or have “open borders” that allow absolutely anyone into the country.
I know the reality is that the Democratic party has nuanced positions on asylum and immigration, but the straw man position the Republicans keep insisting Democrats have completely chokes the public discourse to death leaving us continually discussing the two “options”, and thanks I fucking hate it.
It’s disappointing to see a bipartisan bill (this rarely happens) that could have made a difference get killed without making it to the house floor. That seemed like the middle ground solution.
Sadly, Trump is getting exactly what he wanted out of this election. His cornerstone argument is the border and he is literally nothing without it.
I agree. There’s always some middle ground. But these things have a way of being seen as black or white, like we can’t have a gray area in the middle.
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If you can’t pound the facts, pound the table…
Lol fuck that guy
Now this is fucking journalism. Answer the damn question Steven, you walking Adderall pill
Awwww poor Baby Himmler had a bad day.
Even el Salvador has lowered it’s crime rates by 60% but they did it by throwing every suspect in prison for life no trial or anything. So you just know there are innocent people sitting in that inhumane prison they built. So yeah you can lower a crime rate that much, but you’re not gonna do it without stomping on human rights and the blood of innocents
“THE CHILDREN WILL BE SAVED!”
That part got me upset considering school shootings.
