{"id":2396761,"date":"2025-01-29T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-jake-tapper-run-for-the-hills-as-stephen-miller-catches-him-in-desperate-claim-on-live-tv\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T20:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T01:41:05","slug":"watch-jake-tapper-run-for-the-hills-as-stephen-miller-catches-him-in-desperate-claim-on-live-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-jake-tapper-run-for-the-hills-as-stephen-miller-catches-him-in-desperate-claim-on-live-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Jake Tapper Run for the Hills as Stephen Miller Catches Him in Desperate Claim on Live TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-jake-tapper-run-for-the-hills-as-stephen-miller-catches-him-in-desperate-claim-on-live-tv%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2396761&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u200d article \u2063recounts a sparring \u200dmatch between\u2062 CNN anchor Jake Tapper and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller\u2062 regarding President Donald Trump\u2019s freeze on certain federal spending. During \u2063the discussion, Miller argued\u2063 that the federal workforce is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-americans-lose-confidence-in-predominantly-left-leaning-colleges\/\" title=\"Poll: Americans Lose Confidence in Predominantly Left-Leaning Colleges\">predominantly left-leaning<\/a>, which may hinder Trump&#8217;s goals of reducing spending and promoting his agenda. He cited USAID as an example, noting that 98%\u2063 of its employees contributed \u2064to Kamala Harris or \u200bother \u2064leftist candidates. Tapper challenged Miller \u2063on \u2063this assertion,accusing him of demonizing those who voted for\u200b Harris,which miller found \u2063absurd and laughed off.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the exchange,Miller attempted to discuss the \u200dimplications of the\u2063 spending freeze,while Tapper seemed \u200bto be focused \u200don framing \u200bMiller&#8217;s claims\u2063 negatively.This led\u200c to\u200d a perceived breach of journalistic ethics, as \u2062Tapper\u2019s\u2063 tactics \u2062appeared\u2064 to be aimed at undermining Miller&#8217;s\u2062 legitimate points rather than facilitating a constructive dialog. The article concludes by suggesting that viewers are growing weary \u200cof such combative media interactions and are looking for more genuine discussions rather \u2062than disparaging rhetoric.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>When CNN anchor Jake Tapper and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller sparred on air Tuesday about President Donald Trump&rsquo;s freeze on certain federal spending, the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">top official caught<\/a> the cable host in an embarrassing attempt at a rhetorical trap.<\/p>\n<p>Miller noted to Tapper that the federal workforce is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-what-the-metoo-movement-can-teach-conservatives-about-liberty\/\" title=\"KNOWLES: What The #MeToo Movement Can Teach Conservatives About Liberty\">overwhelmingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-celebs-rage-in-defeat-after-barrett-confirmation-revolting-disgraceful-unconscionable\/\" title=\"Hollywood Celebs Rage in Defeat After Barrett Confirmation: &#039;Revolting. Disgraceful. Unconscionable&#039;\">left-wing<\/a><\/a>, an obstacle that could inhibit Trump in his work to decrease <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-implements-immediate-federal-hiring-freeze-amid-flurry-executive-actions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spending<\/a>, eliminate wokeness, and achieve other objectives for which he was elected.<\/p>\n<p>But when he gave an example of a federal agency with an entrenched liberal bias, Tapper shot back the claim that he was trying to &ldquo;demonize&rdquo; those who voted for now-former Vice President Kamala Harris, causing Miller to laugh off the claim.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We looked at USAID, as an example,&rdquo; Miller told Tapper, reporting that &ldquo;Ninety-eight percent of the workforce either donated to Kamala Harris or another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize\/\" title=\"Stacey Abrams Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize\">left-wing candidate<\/a>.&rdquo;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But now you&rsquo;re demonizing an entire workforce as having &hellip;&rdquo; Tapper began, leading Miller to interject.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Wait, whoa whoa whoa whoa,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Did you just say that saying someone voted for Kamala Harris is demonizing them?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Tapper tried explaining that Miller said &ldquo;there&rsquo;s a bias&rdquo; in the federal workforce, but Miller said through incredulous laughter that Tapper had &ldquo;used the word demonizing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&lsquo;There is confusion&rsquo;: Jake Tapper pushes Stephen Miller to explain order to freeze federal aid\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/thMvPd-tW6U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;You just said that I&rsquo;m demonizing somebody by saying they voted for Kamala Harris,&rdquo; Miller continued.<\/p>\n<p>Tapper then tried to pivot the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s get back on track,&rdquo; the anchor said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am on track. Let me stay on track,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/another-fantastic-pick-trump-shows-serious-cracking-illegal-immigration-deputy-chief-staff-selection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miller<\/a> answered, continuing to make the point that the two million federal government employees are &ldquo;overwhelmingly left-of-center.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When Tapper tried to cut him off again, Miller said &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got to finish the sentence&rdquo; before further developing his point.<\/p>\n<p>What we witnessed was an apparent breach in journalistic ethics, and a rather clumsy one at that.<\/p>\n<p>Tapper desperately tried to negatively frame Miller&rsquo;s legitimate and well-known point, that federal employees are demonstrably more left-wing than the broader public, and claimed Miller was trying to demonize half the country.<\/p>\n<p>Miller then rightly laughed off that jab, and Tapper quickly tried to pivot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fox-news-reigns-supreme-obliterated-cnn-msnbc-combined\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> anchors seem not to have noticed that America&rsquo;s media environment has entered a new era.<\/p>\n<p>The people are sick of pundits and politicians shouting at each other over the airwaves and using lazy arguments to plaster one another with pejoratives, which is why they are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-triumph-complete-cnn-ratings-drop-94-declaring-war-incoming-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tuning out<\/a> from channels like CNN in massive numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Miller seemed to want an actual conversation about the spending freeze, and Tapper seemed to want an attempt to portray an ideological rival as insincerely as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Miller was not having it, and neither is America.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Miller pointed out that the federal workforce leans heavily left, which could hinder Trump&#8217;s efforts to cut spending and address other goals. When he cited an example of a liberal-leaning agency, Tapper accused him of trying to &#8220;demonize&#8221; those who supported former Vice President Kamala Harris, prompting laughter from Miller. He highlighted that &#8220;Ninety-eight percent of the workforce either donated to Kamala Harris or another left-wing candidate.&#8221; As Tapper attempted to redirect the conversation, Miller insisted on finishing his point about the predominantly left-of-center federal employees. This interaction showcased a lapse in journalistic ethics as Tapper tried to frame Miller&#8217;s valid observation negatively while viewers are increasingly disenchanted with such confrontational media exchanges<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2396762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Tapper-vs-Miller.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32444,34528,49460,37043,48816],"class_list":["post-2396761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-jake-tapper","tag-live-tv","tag-media-confrontation","tag-political-debate","tag-stephen-miller"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Tapper-vs-Miller.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2396761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396765,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396761\/revisions\/2396765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2396762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}