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Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist websites, racist immigration coverage in e-mails, excerpts show - The Boston Globe

posted onNovember 13, 2019
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Article snippet: MONTGOMERY, Ala. — White House adviser Stephen Miller sent e-mails that ‘‘promoted white nationalist literature and racist propaganda’’ to conservative news site Breitbart, the Southern Poverty Law Center said Tuesday after releasing excerpts. The nonprofit’s Hatewatch blog published portions of e-mails that Miller sent to Breitbart editors in 2015 and 2016, the majority from he was working for then-U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions but before he joined Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016. The SPLC said it reviewed about 900 email exchanges, in which Miller often discusses immigration stories, provided by former Breitbart editor Katie McHugh, who was fired in 2017. In one excerpt, Miller suggested a dystopian novel popular among the far right about violent migrants who invaded France while discussing the pope’s immigration message: ‘‘Also, you see the Pope saying west must, in effect, get rid of borders. Someone should point out the parallels to ‘Camp of the Saints.’’’ Another email appears to show Miler discussing potential articles after retailer Amazon began discussing pulling Confederate flags after a 2015 mass shooting targeting African Americans killed nine at a South Carolina church. Shooter Dylann Roof, an avowed white nationalist, had posed for photos with the battle flag. ‘‘Have you thought about going to Amazon and finding the commie flags and then doing a story on that?’’ Miller wrote, according to the published e-mails. While responding to a question... Link to the full article to read more

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