Stephen Miller's web of lies: The Trump adviser has championed Big Tobacco's alarming public...

TUESDAY, FEB 21, 2017 04:59 AM EST

Stephen Miller’s web of lies: The Trump adviser has championed Big Tobacco’s alarming public deception

Miller and Mike Pence both had a history of spreading lies about the dangers of smoking

ALEX KOTCH, ALTERNET

The alarming past of President Donald Trump’s senior policy adviser has come under increased scrutiny lately after the 31-year-old archconservative repeatedly lied to the American public on several Sunday morning talk shows. Since his early teens, Stephen Miller has espoused hateful views on immigrants, people of color and liberals. At Duke University, where Miller studied political science, he wrote a biweekly column preaching Islamophobia, defending white lacrosse players accused of raping a black woman, denying the existence of racism, and attacking feminism and political correctness.

The voice composing those columns from a decade ago sounds awfully similar to the present-day Trump surrogate. In both cases, Miller propagates racist ideas and outright lies, delighting in the controversy and attention his hateful stances bring him.

On Feb. 12, Miller spoke on four TV talk shows and blatantly lied to millions of viewers about voter fraud and, despite persistent questioning from the hosts, could not provide even a shred of evidence to back up his claims. In a single interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC, he listed the most outrageous voter fraud allegations members of the Trump team have spewed at various points: Thousands of voters were bused into New Hampshire from Massachusetts to vote illegally last November; 14 percent of noncitizens are registered to vote; being registered in multiple states constitutes fraud; and the biggest whopper of all — three to five million “illegal immigrants” voted (allegedly costing Trump the popular vote).

The Washington Post fact-checked Miller’s lies and gave all of them the harshest possible rating: “Miller earns Four Pinocchios — over and over again.”

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