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"Why are you yelling?” the reporter asked as Trump's senior adviser refused to clarify the source of information he was spreading about Venezuela’s crime rate.

Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller had an on-camera meltdown after being asked by a journalist to back up questionable claims he was making about Venezuela’s crime rate, video of the episode posted to social media shows.

The four-minute video shows an emotional Miller yelling at NTN24 reporter José María del Pino on Tuesday after del Pino questioned Miller over his claims that Venezuela has become safer than the United States because its convicts are now all in the U.S.

Miller also repeated a since-debunked story that a Venezuelan gang has taken over Colorado apartment complexes.

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Genuinely, that’s one of the most impressive examples of a serious journalist being an absolute fucking pitbull on a question, and as a result making the populist idiot spewing racist bile look like a complete imbecile, and laying bare the fact that he’s very obviously trying to push an agenda. Miller even fuckin pivots to MS-13 - an El Salvadoran gang (but all look same amirite /s) - because he realized he’s floundering, and reflexively reaches for more pathos of the “scary Latin people” conservative trope. Truly, this is an incredible interaction to watch. And the expressions of the people in the background are like “wow holy fuck lil’ fascist Stevie is getting OWNED”.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 58 points 6 days ago

The worst part is the racist cult Miller is performing for will see the interview and ask why the reporter wasn't as angry as Miller.

Eh. The actual answer to that question is “he’s genuinely good at and cares about his job as a journalist”. Simple as that.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

You're trying to apply logic and values as a reply to a comment saying that those values and logic don't exist.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

That is an answer for reasonable people, and they already know.

[-] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

He is also making such a bs argument. Does anybody believe that Maduro lets out criminals in the hope that they will cross the Dorian gap to go to the US? That makes no sense. It’s much more likely that those criminals, once let out of prisons, remain in Venezuela.

[-] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Seeing his reaction to facts and logic is like watching a cartoon robot's reaction to a logic bomb.

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