Senior Trump officials told the Daily Mail that Miller not only worked to undermine Noem with Trump, but warned that unless the President reins him in, Mullin may not last a year in the role.
Miller's vast unprecedented control over Homeland Security has been on display every morning at 10am, when he convenes a conference call with the agency's top officials. During these daily briefings, sources said he issues directives to ramp up deportations and often berates leadership, threatening they could be fired if his demands are not met.
Multiple senior officials directly familiar with the 10am calls revealed Miller's control of DHS resulted in some occasions that directly undermined Trump's prior orders.
During Trump's massive immigration crackdown in in Los Angeles in June, the President spoke with top officials and told them to avoid targeting farm workers. The next day at 10am, Miller sent out different orders.
'Stephen got on the call the next day, and said "We're discussing that internally" and that we should just disregard what he said,' one official told the Daily Mail. 'It was like the President never said anything. It was just like Stephen was in charge.'
'Stephen purports to speak with the authority of the President himself, and he makes that very clear on the calls, even if it means undermining what the President just said exactly,' the source added.
