I worked with Trump’s new White House chief of staff. He’s paranoid and fanatical

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Miles Taylor: Stephen Miller showed me secret plans to test the limits of presidential power - he's a danger to the western world

Stephen Miller used to schedule meetings with me in the White House Situation Room. The space is typically used for classified discussion of the highest national significance, but what was odd was that we weren’t discussing anything classified. Stephen just liked a room where he was sure no one could hear his scheming.

That memory came back to me this week, when Miller walked into the West Wing as Donald Trump’s new chief of staff, a promotion handed out days after the Republican defeat in the midterms. Americans will spend the next two years finding out what that means for them. I’d gently suggest that Britain and Europe pay close attention, because I spent almost two and a half years in rooms with this man, and the thing he resents most in the world is the idea that the United States owes anything to anybody, allies most of all.

People who’ve worked with Miller will tell you he’s a caricature of himself, and they’re right. He’s famously paranoid, which is how we ended up in those secure rooms. He’s loyal to Trump in a way that borders on the religious. And he’s ideological to the bone, a true believer in a world where “globalist” is an intentional slur and every treaty, alliance and trade deal is a scam run on the American people.

The caricature was easy to laugh at when he was a thirty-something speechwriter with a shoved-in-lockers axe to grind. Now he runs the building and, I suspect, relishes that he can wield power over his detractors. You know the type.

The messages from former colleagues came flooding in after Miller’s appointment. “I think very few people understand how extreme he is,” one of them wrote. This person had been an attendee at Miller’s wedding and had not spoken out against him, but feared what he’d do now, empowered by Trump.

Some have called him an “isolationist”, but that’s the wrong word to describe Stephen. An isolationist wants America out of the world’s entanglements and is content to leave the furniture where it stands.

He’s also a…

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