Stephen Miller, the MAGA firebrand credited with shaping President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, accused Illinois Governor JB Pritzker of being a “moron” who “hates America” during his latest on air rant.

During an appearance on Hannity Wednesday evening, Miller’s initial calm disposition visibly transformed as he sounded off about “Democrat politicians,” “judges,” and “prosecutors” clamping down on Trump’s controversial anti-immigration and crime agenda.

Miller raised his voice further after host Sean Hannity asked about Pritzker, who has insulted the president on social media and filed lawsuits seeking to thwart Trump’s efforts in Chicago.

“He’s a fool and he’s a moron, but also most importantly, Sean, he hates America,” Miller said. “You can’t love your country and then fight President Trump to keep murderers murdering.”

Like Trump, Miller has characterized most undocumented immigrants as violent criminals – though most evidence does not support that claim.

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    For a Billionaire, Pritzker is far from the worst. Seems to care about the rule of law and has compassion for others. It’s very strange.

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      Except paying taxes. He famously would have toilets removed from his multiple homes so he didn’t have to pay the same property taxes on them since they weren’t livable without toilets. All billionaires are scum bags.

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      Honestly, its never a good idea to put people on a pedestal, especially politicians or billionaires.

      As far as either of those typically go though, he does seem much more in touch with reality. Like a pro union billionaire who thinks wealthy people could stand to pay more taxes? Maybe he just has a really great PR team?

      If it was really that easy though to just buy talent to create a likeable reputation, you would think all the insane oligarchs so eager to usher us into civil war 2, Vietnam 2(3?), and WWIII would be doing a much better job keeping their insane blood lust and hatred for the mudsills on the DL. And you would think the Trump admin would be able to hire lawyers capable of giving better advice and making less absurd legal arguments.

      Maybe they actually do have talented teams, we just don’t know it bc at the end of the day you can lead a narcissist to water but you can’t make him drink.

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        He was born into his wealth, his family are all billionaires because mom and dad created the Hyatt and Marmon group.

        Marmon owned, among other things, the largest rail tank car maker and repairer in North America.

        They also own Royal Caribbean International.

        The family is worth around $43 billion.

        We will see what the future holds.

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      Yeah real strange when a bunch of other billionaires start coming around your neck of the woods and messing with the people you have been exploiting. I guess I don’t know enough about Pritz, but his response seems as simple as the old poker saying you can shear a sheep multiple times but only skin them once. Which is my way of saying he might just take exception to the skinning of his constituents, and is not about fixing shit beyond pragmatic constituent shearing.

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        He was born into the money and he and his family have multiple charities.

        They are still billionaires though.

        Billionaires are the reason we are where we are.

        Let’s see what the future holds for them.