While David Glosser was not invited to his nephew Stephen Miller’s white wedding to fellow Trump administration official Katie Waldman at impeached president Donald Trump’s Washington, D.C. hotel this past weekend, he was kind enough to send along a gift anyway, and one personalized just for him. That’s some courtesy. But whether the White House aide and white supremacist liked it is another story.
Glosser said the wedding gift was a donation to HIAS, a Jewish-American group that has long done important and lifesaving work advocating for refugees. HIAS, he wrote on Facebook, “helped to rescue my family from Czarist oppression in the Russian Empire in 1906. Had our refugee forebears not been helped to emigrate to the USA, they and their children would have been murdered by the racial madness of Nazism.”
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But Miller’s used his role as a White House senior advisor to turn his white supremacist views into official United States policy, which has resulted in the implementation of the Muslim ban, the rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the family separation policy resulting in the state-sanctioned kidnapping in thousands of children at the southern border, and the obliteration of the nation’s asylum and refugee programs, just to name some devastating examples.
This isn’t the first time Miller has been condemned by someone close to him, or by Glosser for that matter, who in 2018 wrote he had “watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country.” He wrote that he would “shudder at the thought” of what would have happened to his family if “the same policies Stephen so coolly espouses” were in effect then.
Miller has also been condemned by his childhood rabbi, Neil Comess-Daniels, who that same year said during a sermon at Beth Shir Shalom synagogue in Santa Monica, “Honestly, Mr. Miller, you’ve set back the Jewish contribution to making the world spiritually whole through your arbitrary division of these desperate people. The actions that you now encourage President Trump to take make it obvious to me that you didn’t get my, or our, Jewish message.”
Miller has been more recently been condemned in resolutions introduced by congressional Democrats, who said “As Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump, he has pushed his vile beliefs forward through major policy changes which have sown divisiveness into our federal policy. His work in the administration has encouraged a resurgence of racism and bigotry, creating a climate of fear, danger, and violence for communities of color and immigrants.”
Glosser said he hasn’t spoken to Miller for five years now, so it’s not likely he’d know how he reacted to the gift. “He said his only communication with his sister, Miller’s mother, relates to the care of their elderly mother,” HuffPost continued. “But it’s ‘a big family,’ Glosser said, adding that many of his relatives support his decision to speak out against his nephew.”