WLT REPORT – Instead of watching Karine Jean-Pierre struggle to read answers from a giant binder on the podium in front of her, the White House press conferences thus far in President Donald Trump’s second term have been open, engaging, and informative.
In addition to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt fielding questions from correspondents from an assortment of media outlets, advisers like Stephen Miller also appear from time to time.
During Thursday’s press conference, Miller, who serves as Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, offered some in-depth analysis in response to one question from the Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson.
As the Daily Caller reported, the gist of the query related to leftist complaints that Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency hold too much influence within the current White House:
“You’re tempting me to say some very harsh things about some of our media friends. Yes, it is true that many of the people in this room, for four years, failed to cover the fact that Joe Biden was mentally incompetent and was not running the country,” Miller said. “It is also true that many people in this room who have used this talking point that Elon [Musk] is not elected fail to understand how government works, so I am glad for the opportunity for a brief civics lesson. A president is elected by the whole American people, he is the only official in the entire government that is elected by the entire nation, right? Judges are appointed, members of Congress are elected at the district and state level, just one man in the Constitution, Article II, has a clause, known as the vesting clause, and it says that the executive power shall be vested in a president. Singular. The whole will of democracy is imbued into the elected president. That president then appoints staff to then impose that democratic will on to the government.”
