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The Latest: Trump replaces Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff
President Donald Trump said Friday that Stephen Miller was replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, mere days after Republicans lost control of Congress in the midterm elections. Miller, long a key member of Trump's inner circle, is a key architect of the administration's hard-line immigration policies. Wiles, a steely political operator and [...]
White House lauds Trump's 'Final Solution' as Stephen Miller named to top job
A White House spokeswoman praised President Donald Trump as "working towards a final solution" on Iran hours before he made Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller his chief of staff.Anna Kelly, the White House principal deputy press secretary, made the remark Friday morning during an interview on LiveNOW from FOX.The phrase "Final Solution" was a euphemism Nazi Germany's leaders used for the mass murder of Europe's Jews, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, the museum says.That afternoon, Trump announced in a Truth Social post that Miller "will become the Chief of Staff starting Monday." Susie Wiles, the current chief of staff, "will be moving over to the Trump Political Operation," Trump wrote.Kelly had attached the Nazis' name for the Holocaust to Trump's Iran policy on the same day Trump gave the White House's top staff job to an aide whose critics have repeatedly compared him to Nazis.The comment came in answer to a question about how Republicans could win back voters after Tuesday's midterm elections."How exactly is President Trump looking to essentially convince voters that they should turn back over to the Republican Party?" LiveNOW from FOX's Josh Breslow asked. He added that Vice President JD Vance had said some Republicans "voted Democrat because of things like the war with Iran.""He's acknowledged that perhaps the Iran war had an impact on the results, and I think the president deserves a tremendous amount of credit," Kelly replied. "He is truly the most courageous president in my lifetime.""That's something that he continues to address and is working towards a final solution because, as he says, Iran can never have a nuclear weapon to threaten our homelands," Kelly said moments later, apparently unaware of the gravity of the phrase.Kelly's phrase echoed a charge Miller's critics have made repeatedly, and by one former official's rule, words that fit an existing charge are the kind that stick.Former New York City Public Advocate Mark Green wrote in a 2010 Observer column that a gaffe hurts most when it fits "a prior negative narrative.""He has been called a Nazi, a neo-Nazi, a white supremacist …," The Atlantic reported of Miller in January.Critics compared Miller's speech at right-wing activist Charlie Kirk's memorial service in September 2025 to a 1932 speech by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, Raw Story reported.In June, after Miller posted "Change the voters, change the country" on X, journalist Mehdi Hasan called it "straight up Nazi rhetoric," according to Raw Story."The lazy and clearly false hit on him is to call him these disgusting names," White House Communications Director Steven Cheung told The Atlantic about the Nazi accusations. Miller declined to comment for that story.Miller's own family would likely have been killed in that genocide had it stayed in Europe, according to his uncle. David Glosser wrote in a 2018 Politico Magazine essay that the family "likely would have been murdered by the Nazis" if its patriarch had waited to leave Europe instead of arriving at Ellis Island in 1903.Trump's first administration condemned Iran's supreme leader for using the same phrase in 2020.In May 2020, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's website published a poster that used the phrase "final solution" about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Radio Farda reported."The leader of the world's top sponsor of terrorism and anti-Semitism … now has invoked the Nazi call for the Final Solution," then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in response, according to the International Crisis Group.As principal deputy press secretary, Kelly speaks for the same president whose secretary of state condemned that phrase six years ago."I'll just say this president loves this country," Kelly said as the interview ended.
'Impeach him': Todd Blanche torched for making DOJ Stephen Miller's personal law firm
Todd Blanche is facing a wave of fury after volunteering himself for a job critics say no attorney general should ever take.On Friday, Blanche responded to Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, who had warned in a letter that newly promoted White House chief of staff Stephen Miller "should lawyer up.""Stephen Miller has a lawyer," Blanche fired back during an appearance on Fox News. "It's me, it's me and the entire DOJ."The remark set off an immediate backlash, with legal observers and Trump critics arguing that Blanche had confused the Justice Department with a private defense firm."The Attorney General of the United States thinks he's the Trump administration's defense lawyer," said the popular anti-Trump account Molly Ploofkins. "Impeach him."George Conway, an attorney and longtime Trump critic, laid out why the arrangement doesn't hold up."That's not how it's supposed to work. Government lawyers represent the government, not any individual, even the president," Conway explained. He added that anyone with "potential exposure to claims they violated the law" would be smart to hire private lawyers "who actually can look out for their personal interests."Former federal prosecutor Mimi Rocah, who used to work with Blanche, said the moment "perfectly exemplifies everything wrong with his leadership," accusing Blanche of misstating the attorney general's role and dragging in DOJ lawyers "who are trying to do their real jobs."Democratic strategist and radio host Leslie Marshall questioned whether the nation's top law enforcement office had become the "private attorney" of the president's chief of staff.Anti-Trump activist Morgan J. Freeman took a sharper tone."Taxpayer-funded attorneys don't exist to shield White House officials from congressional oversight or accountability," Freeman declared. "You're the Attorney General, not Miller's defense attorney. There's a f— difference."Glen Murray, a former mayor of Winnipeg, reminded Blanche that he is "sworn to uphold the Constitution and serve the American people," not "shield powerful men" from the law.Others read Blanche's promise as bad news for Miller himself."Stephen Miller is screwed," quipped writer Hemant Mehta, while commentator and activist Heather Thomas predicted, "So he's definitely getting convicted."Progressive commentator Jack Cocchiarella saw fear behind the bravado. "Oh my god they're terrified," he responded.Tennis legend Martina Navratilova offered a simpler reaction. "Who is going to tell him?" she asked.Commentator and Democratic strategist Michelle Kinney turned the question back on Blanche, asking, "Does Todd Blanche have a lawyer?"Perfectly exemplifies everything wrong with his leadership: Misstates the role of the AG and then volunteers DOJ lawyers who are trying to do their real jobs.— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) November 7, 2026
'More MAGA Cowbell': WSJ laments Trump's move to eject a 'grown-up' from his orbit
The Wall Street Journal's editorial board said President Donald Trump's firing of chief of staff Susie Wiles signals he will lean harder on loyalists and unpopular policies after the midterms, in an editorial titled "Susie Wiles Takes the Election Fall."Trump fired Wiles on Friday and named deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller to replace her, with Wiles moving to what Trump called the "Trump Political Operation."Trump seems to want "more MAGA cowbell," wrote the board — a reference to an infamous Saturday Night Live skit.The board said Wiles appears to be absorbing blame for a defeat Trump largely authored, through policies voters disliked and a strategy of telling them to pretend he was "on the ballot." They cited a 37 percent approval rating in the exit poll. The board called Wiles a "grown-up" who brought order, added outside voices and restrained schemers, and said yes-men such as housing regulator Bill Pulte were jockeying to succeed her.The board said Miller is intelligent and a strong communicator but that his message is the problem — he devised Trump's mass deportation strategy and pushed for a 3,000-a-day migrant arrest quota. An NBC News exit poll found 58 percent of voters said enforcement went too far, noted the board, with 90 percent of them favoring Democrats. They added that Miller defended the Canada and Mexico tariffs and called the Liberation Day tariffs "the most important economic event of our lifetime."The board concluded there will be no pivot from those policies, and said Miller's alliance with Vice President J.D. Vance suggests Vance's influence will grow.The board added that Trump may rely on yes-men as his political circle shrinks, and that bad deals with adversaries or a Democratic Congress are risks.
Man in custody after being found in vehicle near White House with guns
Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos arrested by secret service after telling officers voices told him to kill Donald TrumpThe US secret service said a suspect has been taken into custody and charged after officers found him in a vehicle near the White House with multiple guns, claiming he heard voices in his head telling him to kill Donald Trump.The arrest Thursday night happened after secret service officers approached a man "acting suspicious" in a parked car, according to a Homeland Security statement. US officials said the suspect – Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos – went on to describe voices in his head that were telling him to come to the nation's capital and kill the Republican president. Continue reading...
Stephen Miller replaces Susie Wiles as Trump's White House chief of staff after GOP's midterm defeat
President Donald Trump said Friday that Stephen Miller was replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, installing as his closest adviser a loyal, combative bulldog for his ''America First'' agenda as the president prepares to stare down a newly empowered Democratic Congress next year.
Susie Wiles exits White House as Trump ousts another woman from key role
Wiles thanks president for 'honor of a lifetime' as departure leaves behind overwhelmingly male leadership teamUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump on Friday said Susie Wiles, the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff, will leave her post, a major shake-up of his inner circle that comes amid a steady exodus of senior female officials from his administration.The president announced her ouster – and her replacement, by the immigration hardliner Stephen Miller – in a post on Truth Social, days after a sweeping blue wave gave Democrats control of both chambers of Congress in the midterm elections. Wiles's departure leaves behind an overwhelmingly male leadership team. Continue reading...
The end of Maga as we know it
The Republican party will regroup after their shellacking in the US midterm elections, but it won't look the sameWalking by a tattoo studio and medical spa on the pretty main street of Round Rock, in Texas Hill Country, Tarik Bakir recalled voting for Barack Obama in 2008 and Donald Trump in 2024. But when it came to the 2026 midterm elections, he was firmly back in the Democrats' column."I'm not happy with the Iran war," said Bakir, 41, a financial adviser who served with the US military in Afghanistan. "The economy's OK, but not great. This election was a rebuttal to Trump. This time people said they didn't like him, or his policies." Continue reading...
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, waves as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House to board Marine One with White House aide Natalie Harp, right, Friday, Nov. 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Watch live: Trump to speak from Kennedy Space Center days after GOP midterm losses
President Trump is set to deliver remarks Friday at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, days after Republicans suffered sweeping losses in Tuesday's midterm elections. He is participating in NASA's "Max Power" aerospace technology expo, which showcases advances in aviation, space exploration and emerging technologies. The appearance comes as the Trump administration pushes...
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