Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hate Watch division “reviewed more than 900 previously private emails Miller sent to Breitbart editors from March 4, 2015, to June 27, 2016.”
Former Breitbart editor Katie McHugh leaked the emails to SPLC in June. Breitbart fired McHugh for in 2017 “after posting anti-Muslim tweets. She has since renounced the far right.”
While working for then, Senator Jeff Sessions, Miller used his government issued email account to send emails to Breitbart influencing their reporting, which ultimately, influenced the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
A few snippets from SPLC’s analysis, mainly what we already suspected or knew. For more details, go here:
- “Miller sent a story from the white nationalist website VDARE to McHugh on Oct. 23, 2015, the emails show. White nationalist Peter Brimelow founded VDARE in 1999. The website traffics in the “white genocide” or “great replacement” myth, which suggests that nonwhite people are systematically and deliberately wiping white people off the planet.
- White nationalist Dylann Roof murdered nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2015. Roof’s attack triggered a national conversation about racial hatred in the United States. In response, Amazon.com and other retailers made efforts to pull the Confederate flag from their websites and stores.
- Miller, with the help of Breitbart, sought to discredit their actions.
- Preserving Confederate monuments has resonated with the far right, and Trump has repeatedly played to those views.
- Following the August 2017 “Unite the Right” rally, for example, when white nationalists and neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, to protect a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, Trump appeared to defend them, saying that there were “very fine people, on both sides.” A man who marched with white nationalists at Unite the Right murdered antiracist demonstrator Heather Heyer in a car-ramming attack that Aug. 12. Five days later, Trump tweeted:”
- Miller forwards Infowars link to aid McHugh’s reporting.
- Miller backs immigration policies Hitler once praised.
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