Do we like them?

Do we like Stephen Miller?

Our score: 1 out of 10. A run of reported words and posts aimed at a group, including a false trans smear in 2026, and no real good found to set against it.

Stephen Miller is the White House deputy chief of staff for policy under Donald Trump, and RNZ's profile calls him the architect of the administration's immigration policy. He's the bloke behind the curtain more than the face on the poster. Fair warning: we couldn't open much of his early-life story this round, so this one leans on the record we could read.

The big stain on his file is from 2019, when the Southern Poverty Law Center released hundreds of emails leaked by a former Breitbart writer. NBC News reported the emails allegedly showed Miller urging Breitbart to cover crimes by Hispanic and nonwhite people more heavily and sharing links to white nationalist sites, though NBC said it hadn't seen the emails or confirmed them. Democrats including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar called on him to resign, while a White House official hit back by calling the attacks anti-Semitic.

On the harm check, the freshest example is his own post in May 2026. He wrote that Democrats had made history in Texas by nominating their first transgender senate candidate, and PinkNews reported that the nominee, James Talarico, is not transgender. It reads like the word transgender being used as an attack line, which is the kind of culture-war move this page marks down. It adds to the emails, which were reported but not independently confirmed by NBC.

On the good stuff, we came up empty: nothing in the pages we could open showed charity or kind acts, and no court finding against him personally turned up in this run. We also couldn't open his fact-check record or his interviews this round, so the good-person call is a close one. On what we read, though, a false trans smear in 2026 and the 2019 emails reported against him don't add up to someone we'd back.