While Stephen Miller has been widely credited as the mind behind the most merciless parts of the administration’s deportation operations, Pritzker speculated that targeting migrants was just one piece of Miller’s broader autocratic agenda.
“He’s clearly the person that is aiming to have Donald Trump become an authoritarian leader,” the governor said. “And I wish that, you know, people could at least recognize that Stephen Miller is bad for the country, and he is abusing the fact that Donald Trump has diminished capacity.”
Catch Pritzker’s full conversation on “The Bullwark” below. His questions about the president’s health begin around the 12-minute mark.