President Trump held a two-hour emergency meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Monday evening, but the absence of one key figure spoke volumes about the administration's response to its Minneapolis crisis. Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff who architected Trump's immigration policies and publicly labelled Alex Pretti a 'would-be assassin', was notably excluded from the discussions.
The meeting, which Noem reportedly requested amid rumours her job is in jeopardy, took place as the administration scrambles to contain fallout from two fatal shootings of US citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis this month. Also in attendance were White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, press secretary Karoline Leavitt, and communications director Stephen Cheung. Miller's exclusion from a discussion about the very immigration policies he designed raised immediate questions about whether the hardline adviser is being sidelined.
