Former MSNBC anchor Tiffany Cross called White House Deputy Chief of Policy Stephen Miller a white supremacist live on CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip on Monday.
Cross was on a panel to discuss President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to the capital to assist law enforcement in combating crime. These guardsmen have been in the District of Columbia for almost two weeks and are expected to stay another two weeks. Miller credited the guardsmen for the downward effect on crime.
“For the first time in their lives, [D.C. residents] can use the parks, they can walk on the streets. You have people who can walk freely at night without having to worry about being robbed or mugged,” Miller said in the Oval Office on Monday. “They’re wearing their watches again. They‘re wearing jewelry again. They‘re carrying purses again.”
“He’s wrong,” Cross said after watching the clip. “Any time that we play something from Stephen Miller, it would be journalistic integrity to point out that he is a white supremacist and he is the brainchild behind this policy. That‘s not my opinion. That‘s actual fact.”
“And for him to purport lies from the Oval Office as a white supremacist, it should be pointed out,” Cross said.
Cross was referring to leaked emails between Miller and a former Breitbart News reporter from 2015 to 2016. Miller sent a link to the anti-immigration website Vdare.com and mentioned the 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints, about a nonwhite immigrant invasion of Europe.
Upon the leak, which came in 2019 after Trump first took office and named Miller his senior aide, House Democrats at the time called for Miller to be fired.
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Since the segment Monday night, Cross has stood by her comments, reposting clips from the program on X. Cross shared a post that read, “That’s right! @TiffanyDCross is correct!”
The Washington Examiner reached out to the White House for comment.