CNN’s Abby Phillip lets left-wing podcaster label Stephen Miller ‘Nazi Jew’ unchallenged

CNN host Abby Phillip did not push back when left-wing podcaster Jennifer Welch called White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller “a white supremacist” and “a Nazi Jew” during Welch’s “I’ve Had It” on Thursday.

Miller has been a frequent target of the left, with activists scrawling hateful chalk messages outside of his family’s Arlington, Virginia, home. After Welch made the comments on her podcast, Phillip did not dispute them whatsoever, simply saying she “can’t speak to what Stephen Miller’s motivations are.”

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“Stephen Miller is a white supremacist. I mean, he is. And he’s basically running the White House. They keep [President Donald] Trump busy with his decorating projects,” Welch said. “He’s got building the arch now. He’s got his Oval Office design. And then you have these real sociopaths that are real antisemites, true white supremacists like Stephen Miller. And even though he’s Jewish, he’s like a Nazi Jew.”

“Well, look, I can’t speak to what Stephen Miller’s motivations are,” Phillip responded. “I’ve met him. I’ve talked to him. I’ve interviewed him.”

Phillip added that she believed it was necessary to understand the motivations of powerful people, including Miller, but did not address Welch’s allegations about them.

“I do think that you have to understand what motivates the people who are in power. If people are in power, you got to understand what their ideology is,” the CNN host said. “Like truly understand what motivates them, where they’re going. And I do think that that requires listening. I mean, I listen to what the Steve Bannons of the world say.”

“I listen very carefully to what Stephen Miller says because it really tells you where this is all heading,” she said.

Miller ended up placing his home on the market for $3.75 million after weeks of the left-wing activists chalking messages. The messages included “Stephen Miller is destroying democracy” and “no white nationalism,” local outlet ARLnow reported in September.

Miller also faced demonstrators at Washington, D.C.,’s Union Station in August, who were there to protest Trump’s crime crackdown in the district.

Moreover, Miller refuted CNN anchor Boris Sanchez’s question on“CNN News Central” Oct. 6 regarding whether Trump’s administration was racially “profiling” in its immigration enforcement.

“Is it the case that … you are profiling brown people, that this immigration crackdown is designed to go after people of color?” Sanchez asked.

Miller laughed before answering.

“Oh, what a dumb question. The illegal aliens who are here are taking jobs away from blacks. They’re taking jobs away from whites. They’re taking jobs away from Latinos. They’re taking their health benefits away,” he said. “They’re taking their school slots away. And of course, in many cases, they’re committing heinous crimes. We cannot have a system of law in this country that privileges illegal aliens over American citizens.”

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