Stephen Miller’s Wife Threatens To Revoke Trump Critic’s Citizenship After He Insults Her

WASHINGTON — Katie Miller, a former Trump administration aide and the wife of top White House immigration adviser Stephen Miller, threatened an administration critic with revocation of his citizenship for insulting her on a video panel discussion.

“You better check your citizenship application and hope that everything was legal and correct,” she said to Cenk Uygur on Piers Morgan’s YouTube program Wednesday.

She followed that with a comparison to Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, but precisely what she said was unclear because of cross talk from Uygur and other members of the panel. Omar is a frequent target of racial and ethnic attacks by Trump and his followers, and Trump has said multiple times that he would send her “back” to Somalia, but that the Somali government does not want her.

Uygur had earlier called both Katie and Stephen Miller liars. “It’s very normal for a Miller to be completely and utterly lying,” he said.

That prompted Katie Miller to accuse Uygur of attacking her, her husband and her children because they are Jewish — even though Uygur had not referenced her religion in any way.

“I am raising Jewish children in this country,” Miller said, warning Morgan that she would end her participation in the discussion if he did not rein in Uygur.

Not long after, as Uygur argued that criticizing Israel’s policies was not antisemitic, Katie Miller threatened to have his citizenship revoked.

“It’s deeply ironic that the people who claimed to champion free speech are now trying to deport people who speak out against them,” Uygur, who describes himself as a left-wing populist and was born in Turkey, told HuffPost. “If Princess Snowflake tries to deport everyone she loses a debate to, then we’re going to start to run out of people.”

Neither Katie nor Stephen Miller responded to HuffPost queries about her threat or what role she now has in choosing people who, in the administration’s view, should lose their U.S. citizenship. White House Communications Director Steven Cheung and press secretary Karoline Leavitt did not respond either.

Revoking the status of naturalized U.S. citizens is an extraordinary step that has been reserved for exceptional cases. In 2002, the U.S. government revoked the citizenship of Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk after confirming he was a Nazi war criminal who worked as a guard in a concentration camp.

Katie Miller no longer works in the Trump administration, although she began the second term working for former Trump adviser Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency. In Trump’s first term, she worked in the Department of Homeland Security and later in the office of then-Vice President Mike Pence. She complained she had been fired after Jan. 6, 2021, when the mob of followers Trump summoned to Washington to help him overturn his election loss roamed the Capitol chanting, “Hang Mike Pence.”

Stephen Miller was a speechwriter early in Trump’s first term, although his portfolio grew through the years. In December 2020, following Trump’s reelection loss, Miller boasted of the coming scheme to use fraudulent electoral votes to steal the election from Democrat Joe Biden. With Trump’s return to power in January, Miller has even more influence and is now a key adviser behind Trump’s extrajudicial lethal attacks on alleged drug smugglers that have now killed dozens aboard boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.