The leftists are not feeling satisfied and charitable in victory. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart have united in virtually accusing Stephen Miller, President Trump’s new chief of staff, of murder.
Democrat Jeffries, the presumptive next Speaker of the House, made the most explosive charge. On X he wrote:
“Stephen Miller is a dangerous xenophobe and reckless extremist who has American blood on his hands. His presence in government should be eradicated like a malignant tumor.”
Jeffries gave himself a tiny fig leaf by limiting the eradication call to Miller’s “presence in government.” But pairing “American blood on his hands” with “eradicated like a malignant tumor” is not ordinary political criticism. It reads more like someone putting out a hit— not a call for bureaucratic reshuffling.
If a conservative had used this "eradicate the tumor" terminology and applied it to Jeffries or any other Democrat, the elitist media would erupt and see it as an appeal to violence.
On Saturday’s edition of MS NOW’s The Weekend, Capehart echoed the charge. Discussing Miller’s promotion, Capehart was dire:
Now that Stephen Miller will have the top job on Monday, it would seem to me that this administration is about to -- it was crazy before, it's going to be even crazier now. We've got this guy who’s behind the ICE raids, behind the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. I feel great about what happened on Tuesday. I don't feel great about what's going to come out of this administration in response.
Jonathan Capehart Accuses Stephen Miller of Being 'Behind the Killings' of Protesters in Minnesota pic.twitter.com/0Lv0oBxZ7k
— Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) November 7, 2026
If someone takes Jeffries and Capehart at their word—that Miller has “blood on his hands,” was “behind the killings,” and should be “eradicated like a malignant tumor”—then it’s Jeffries and Capehart who could be portrayed as appealing to violence. In this picture, Miller sounds like a Mafia don ordering murders.
Note: Later, the show brought on Rep. Robert Garcia, the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee, who posted a warning to Miller to “lawyer up.”
Garcia passed it off as just a call for “accountability.” Right.
