'Unlawful': Ex-Rubio adviser blasts Trump 'propagandist' — and warns he 'hurts the White House in court'
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of state, looks on, on the day he testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 15, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of state, looks on, on the day he testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 15, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
Miller was reacting to a federal judge’s Friday ruling that ordered the Trump administration “to facilitate the return of a gay Guatemalan man who said he was deported to Mexico despite fearing he would be persecuted there, after officials acknowledged an error in his case,” CNBC reported.
The official X account for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, quoting the CNBC article on the judge’s ruling, berated “this federal activist judge” who “order[ed] us to bring [a Guatemalan man] back, so he can have an opportunity to prove why he should be granted asylum to a country that he has had no past connection to.”
That DHS post prompted Miller’s attack on due process — a common refrain from the top Trump aideTrump aide. As the Daily Beast reports, “Miller’s influence on Trump was evident when, last month, he took to TruthSocial to mount a similar argument, claiming that there simply was not sufficient time or court capacity to afford every potential deportee due process.”
Responding to Miller, Nunziata, a Federalist Society contributor and former domestic policy adviser to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, bemoaned the deputy chief of staff as a “propagandist” who “hurts the [White House] in court.”
“The White House could have a lawyer pushing an aggressive message with a chance of moving the law in its direction, or it could have a propagandist saying one untrue and unlawful thing after another,” Nunziata wrote. “It chose the latter, which hurts the [White House] in court and undermines public faith.”
