Other than Trump’s finally ending his Iran War with a beautiful deal — a tremendous deal, an incredible deal, and could everyone please tell him that? — the president’s only other helpful move this quarter was to endorse Texas attorney general Ken Paxton in his runoff against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.

As Cornyn’s $92 million in attack ads painstakingly reminded voters, Paxton has been accused of: bribery, abuse of public trust and misappropriation, misusing state resources, obstruction of justice, making false statements, retaliating against whistleblowers, securities fraud and adultery. And many of the accusations came from his fellow Republicans.

It tells you something that even running as an incumbent against a candidate with as many bullet holes as his opponent, and outspending him by more than 2-to-1, Cornyn was absolutely crushed by Paxton this week.

The media will never tell you this, but vicious primaries against sitting Republican senators tend to have a common denominator. To wit: the Republican is a disaster on immigration. Cornyn was no exception. Which is why it’s surprising that we haven’t heard a peep out of Trump’s White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.

Just a week ago, Miller unleashed a barrage of abuse at Rep. Thomas Massie for voting against Trump’s Big Beautiful bill because, as Massie explained, it also fully funded the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, used by the Biden administration to spy on and censor Americans.

I, personally, would vote for an entire KGB to spy on Americans in exchange for a wall, but opposing the non-wall part of a bill that also funded the wall does not constitute siding with “foreign predators and criminal aliens,” as Miller claimed in one of his histrionic tweets.

Massie has voted repeatedly to fund a border wall — at least when he wasn’t also required to vote for a domestic spy agency. In 2023, he was one of only five co-sponsors of the “Close Biden’s Open Border Act,” which would have provided $15 billion exclusively for a wall.

This is in dramatic contrast to Sen. Cornyn, who has pushed for amnesty every year since at least 2013 — except those years when he was about to face a re-election. His idea of a border bill was the one he proposed Trump’s first year in office: In exchange for no employer sanctions and no worksite enforcement, his bill would have funded a whopping 10 miles of wall.

So what’s with Miller? He may be good on immigration, but he’s got the loyalty of a rattlesnake.

Recall that he abandoned his former boss and immigration ally, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the moment Trump decided to make Sessions the scapegoat for a problem of his own making. (Trump went on NBC News and toldLester Holt that it was his decision to fire FBI Director James Comey because of the Russia investigation, inevitably triggering a special counsel to revive the Russia investigation — which Trump then blamed on Sessions.)

For 20 years, Sessions had been the sole voice of sanity on immigration in the U.S. Senate. Like the Little Dutch Boy who put his finger in the dike, saving his town from a catastrophic flood, Sessions spared our country from the third-world flood long enough for Trump to come along, run on the issue and win.

In any other Senate office, Miller would have been responding to constituent mail. In Sessions’ office, he was a major policy advisor, whose detailed memo exposing the cons, tricks, and loopholes in Sen. Marco Rubio’s amnesty bill did more than anything else to kill it.

But he stood by, saying nothing as Trump cruelly assailed Sessions — even joining in the attack. After Sessions’ subsequent primary loss in his attempt to return to the senate, Miller told reporters, while strolling down the White House driveway, that Sessions’ defeat was a “great victory for the country, a great victory for the President.”

Maybe it was all worth it, now that Miller has a crucial perch in Trump’s White House. That’s a question for the philosophers. But it was definitely worth it for my Stephen Miller-Nicole Wallace reality TV show! The idea is, contestants compete to see if there’s anything Miller and Wallace won’t say in order to keep their jobs.

Wallace, you will recall, was part of the brain trust that picked Sarah Palin, then a little-known Alaska governor, to be John McCain’s running mate. As Palin’s primary assistant, Wallace immediately began leaking nasty stories about her to the press, calling her a “diva” and carping about her shopping sprees. As soon as Wallace failed at the job of getting her clients elected, she rushed to The New York Times to announce that she hadn’t voted for them, anyway.

That reinvention set up Wallace perfectly for a host role on MSNBC, where, as a “former Republican,” she says things too crazy for a Democrat to voice. Like the girl who does the whole football team, she will do anything, say anything, to stay on TV — before being discarded. If David Duke bought MS-NOW and announced, “We’re going white nationalist,” she’d hand him her resume.

Now, we just need a show title. I’m thinking, “Stephen, you’ve got the job,” or “Relax Nicole. It’s getting embarrassing.” Or maybe in Miller’s case, “Yeah, okay, it was worth it.”

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