Holy smokes. Stephen Miller was spitting fire yesterday afternoon on CNN, leaving his interviewer shellshocked If I am reading my body language correctly. 

CNN's Brianna Keilar and Miller went a few rounds on her program, and to be fair, she did get a few licks in over an embarrassing snafu that never should have happened at the Department of Energy. I wouldn't have wanted to have to defend the screw up that led to the momentary firing of people who manage our nuclear weapons.

Stephen Miller mocks CNN's Brianna Keilar on her own network: "I understand that even a temporary interruption in federal employment is a great crisis, a catastrophe for you and for CNN."pic.twitter.com/iLquVhJVKT

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) February 18, 2025

Move fast and break things is the Silicon Valley motto, and that was a glitch that shouldn't get repeated. 

But whatever political capital Keilar gained in that zinger evaporated when she appeared to be horrified that illegal aliens who defrauded the government of child care subsidies might get deported for breaking the law. 

MILLER: "The federal government will find every illegal alien who is stealing American taxpayer dollars & that's what Americans expect to happen. I don't even fathom the premise of your question!"

"No one is given permission to break the law anymore!" pic.twitter.com/P0MfzdWgKP

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 18, 2025

Miller looked like he was set on fire, and Keilar looked genuinely stunned that somebody could be so cruel as to punish people for felony theft. 

Keilar is trying to use the "DOGE is going through your private information" argument to trip Miller up, obviously ignoring the fact that the IRS goes through our private information all the time. You may recall that the Biden IRS put in a rule that required every transaction of $600 to be reported to the government and the media made fun of Republicans for objecting. 

Biden increased the IRS budget enough to hire tens of thousands of agents to audit you and me, and Democrats were over the moon. 

But root out fraud and punish the illegal aliens committing it? That is appalling! The IRS is supposed to be weaponized against citizens who are presumed tax cheats, not non-citizens who are actual tax cheats. 

That's not sporting, I suppose. 

Trump's critics are flailing. They blame Donald Trump for plane crashes in Toronto and worry more about an audit of government spending than they did China getting into every Treasury Department computer. They choose a theme a day because nothing seems to be working, and in the process, they are making themselves look really horrible. 

The Department of Energy screw up was real, but now it is just one of a million things that people are hearing about and it all sounds the same. 

DOGE bad! Bureaucrats good! Illegal immigrants good! Elon Musk is mean Nazi. 

The elite has a basic problem about which, at the moment, they can do little: they have blown all their credibility and keep doing so. It may seem shocking to Keilar that deporting people who committed tax fraud is something that seems obvious to most people, so she looks like an idiot when questioning Miller. 

CNN's shrinking audience may snigger at Stephen Miller's assertion that felons should be prosecuted even if they are illegal aliens, but that is common sense to most people. The more that the elite keep revealing their real opinions, the less people will trust them. 

At some point, the Trump winning streak will be broken, but right now, he has all the momentum.