WASHINGTON — White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller tore into Rep. Dan Goldman on Sunday after the Manhattan Democrat blamed the Trump official’s rhetoric for an explosion at the home of South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein.
Authorities are still investigating the cause of the fire that engulfed the state circuit court judge’s $1.5 million beach home, but Goldman (D-NY) called it “arson” and faulted Miller and other MAGA world figures for “doxxing and threatening” judges who have ruled against the administration.
“You are vile. Deeply warped and vile,” Miller shot back on X late Sunday.
“While the Trump Administration has launched the first-ever government-wide effort to combat and prosecute illegal doxing, sinister threats and political violence you continue to push despicable lies, demented smears, malicious defamation and foment unrest. Despicable.”
Miller also pointed to the bombshell revelations that Virginia Attorney General hopeful Jay Jones (D) fantasized in 2022 about then-state House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R) getting shot in the head.
Jones’ musings were largely done in text messages. But he also had a call with Republican House Delegate Carrie Coyner, in which he appeared to wish that Gilbert’s wife could watch her children die and pondered if that would alter the then-state speaker’s political views, National Review reported.
Miller highlighted the Jones debacle and also a recent decision to sentence a woman who pleaded guilty to trying to murder conservative Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to a paltry eight years.
“Meanwhile, the Democrat AG nominee in Virginia is fantasizing about murdering his opponents and a Biden federal judge is showing radical leniency to a monster who tried to assassinate a Supreme Court Justice,” the White House deputy chief of staff for policy further shot back.
“While you post your libelous madness, we will keep focused on delivering public safety and fighting domestic terror.”
Last month, following Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Miller vowed that the Trump administration would deploy its resources to attack what he described as a left-wing “domestic terror movement.”
Miller doubled down on that Saturday, warning that a “large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism” is being “shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general.”
He then called for the use of “legitimate state power” to “dismantle terrorism and terror networks.”
Goldman fired back at Miller early Monday and asked him whether he’d condemn the burning of Goodstein’s home.
“If you are trying to combat political violence, why don’t you condemn the political violence against a judge who ruled against you and your admin?” the New York Democrat argued. “It’s pretty simple: do you condemn all political violence or only that against your supporters?”
Goodstein’s husband and son were injured in the fire. She later told the Daily Mail that she’s “alright” after the terrifying fire.
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