Donald Trump has attended the wedding this weekend of embattled and controversial White House aide Stephen Miller, who has been condemned for his links to white nationalism and his hardline stance on immigration.
“The President is at Trump International Hotel for the wedding of Mr and Mrs Stephen Miller,” a White House statement said. Trump had been in Florida earlier on Sunday to attend Nascar’s 62nd Dayton 500. He returned to Washington, DC, shortly after 6.00pm.
According to media reports, Miller is getting married to Katie Waldman, vice-president Mike’s Pence press secretary.
Miller is one of the few remaining staffers from Trump’s 2016 campaign and widely seen as a powerful driving force behind controversial policies like the travel ban that largely impacts mostly Muslim countries and the zero-tolerance family separation policy that caused global outrage as children at the southern border were kept in cages.
Miller also hit the headlines recently for promoting white nationalist articles and racist books in emails to a writer at Breitbart, who after leaving the hard-right website leaked 900 of the messages to anti-hate campaign group the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Last week Democratic congressional leaders demanded Miller’s resignation in a joint resolution, saying “his white supremacist, anti-immigrant ideology has no place in our country”.
The resolution said Miller should leave his job after “trafficking in bigotry, hatred and divisive political rhetoric and for promoting policies that are inconsistent with the trust and confidence placed in him as a senior advisor to the president”.
