General Discussion

Stephen Miller: Trumputin's Martin Bormann?

Miller, who looks like a 50-year-old man trapped in a 31-year-old body, is a severely balding, hooded-lidded, gangly man who reminded me of Adolf Hitler's young hitman, Martin Bormann.

Bormann served a year in prison in the early 1920s for being an accomplice in a murder to a man who later was the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He joined the Nazi Party in 1927 and rose rapidly in the party, becoming chief of staff to the Deputy Fuhrer, Rudolf Hess, in 1933, at age 33. He became a member of Hitler's inner circle (much as Miller has become to Trumputin), and accompanied him everywhere (similar to Miller), and became Hitler's "personal secretary" in 1935. That year, he became the head of the renovations to Hitler's property at Obersalzberg, the Berghof, and built the Eagle's Nest, a tea house high above the Berghof (which I have visited), as a gift to Hitler on his 50th birthday in 1939.

Stephen Miller
Miller grew up in a liberal Jewish family in Santa Monica. His mother's family immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1900s, as did Trumputin's, but from Belarus and not Germany. He became a conservative after reading a book by NRA head Wayne LaPierre while at Santa Monica High School, where he was known for antagonizing his fellow students by making controversial statements such as telling Latino students to speak only English. At age 16, he wrote a letter to the editor of the old Santa Monica Outlook stating that "Osama Bin Laden would feel very welcome at Santa Monica High School". He also was filmed getting booed offstage during student government campaign speech, wearing a cocky grin, for stating that students should not have to clean up after themselves, since janitors are paid to do this work.

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