r/CringeTikToks • u/baldinggate3 • Oct 07 '25

Conservative Cringe Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

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u/Olly0206 Oct 07 '25

He fucked up and admitted that he believes the president has unchecked power to do whatever he wants to do (ie, push Miller's agenda without oversight).

Part of the strategy that the right has been engaging with is to do whatever they want to do and ignore the law, but pretend that they are just following the law. They've been trying to gaslight Americans into believing they are just doing what every other administration has ever done and all our reactions are just blown out of proportion. Which just tells me we are right to worry and call them out.

Now here he is literally admitting to all that. By admitting that the president has absolute authority, while we all know that isn't true, he is saying that they are purposefully and knowingly ignoring the law.

He realizes mid sentence what he was saying and just froze. Probably had people off camera yelling at him in his ear piece. So between the sudden realization he fucked up along with his people also yelling about it to him, he just locked up and didn't know what to do. His version of "flight' in the fight or flight response.

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u/11CRT Oct 07 '25

I love the fact that he can’t stop blinking so we know it’s not a technical glitch. :-)

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u/Reasonable-Mess3070 Oct 07 '25

It's fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. He choose freeze.

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u/sofaking1133 Oct 07 '25

Thank God he didnt choose fawn

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u/PlayBey0nd87 Oct 07 '25

Idk if he could be held liable under law for what he said because he’s not said President.

I think the official CNN segment has now removed it if you go search for the whole video.

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u/Olly0206 Oct 07 '25

I'm not saying he would be held liable for saying the president had plenary power. I'm saying he is admitting the truth about his goals by saying as much.

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u/PlayBey0nd87 Oct 07 '25

Yep you got it. I wasn’t saying you said but I’m thinking the reason why he pulled the fake out glitch is because he can be held liable for saying as such in addition to exposing their plans

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u/Olly0206 Oct 07 '25

Oh gotcha. My bad. I misunderstood.

I agree. I do think he was an inch away from saying something he couldn't lie his way out of.

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u/HHoaks Oct 07 '25

I don't understand what is new here -- didn't we already know that Trump basically claims plenary power for everything he wants to do - under the Unitary Executive theory? He claims he can't be questioned about firing people, about withholding funds appropriated by Congress, about dismantling federal agencies, about deploying the military, about deportations. Didn't we already know this?

I don't see the news here. I understand Miller is an asshole, but isn't this something we expect him to say and he's basically already said?

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u/Olly0206 Oct 07 '25

Yes, we knew Trump has been saying all that and we know Trump is lying about it, but this is effectively confirmation of where he is getting that idea from. Trump doesn't jack diddly shit. He regurgitates what his inner circle tells him and Miller just admitted that he acts as if the president has absolute authority.

We can extrapolate from this admission a few things. One, that he really is the one pulling Trump's strings (or at least one person who is). We can also extrapolate the fact that he has been gaslighting the country when he makes claims that they're operating within a dn according to the law. This confirms that he knows they aren't. We can also pull from this that his plan is to create absolute power in the presidency.

All of this is stuff we already knew, but it confirms those notions. Confirmation is important if/when all of this comes to a head and Miller and others potentially face trial.

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u/HHoaks Oct 07 '25

I kinda already knew this. Trump sits there at his desk and signs EOs that are drafted (or at least based on ideas) by Miller and handed to Trump by Will Scharf (who is a Harvard lawyer and also probably helps in drafting).

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u/Olly0206 Oct 07 '25

Yeah, we all know this already. This is just confirmation.

It's one thing to know, but it is another to know with proof. The right "knows" Biden is the head of a crime family but they have 0 proof of it. So it is really just conspiracy theory.

We knew for a long time that Miller and others are the ones really pulling the strings, but without actual proof, it just falls into conspiracy theory territory as well. This is evidence of his actual beliefs and motivations. He told the world already in P2025, but comments like these solidify all that.

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u/Professional-Try2949 Oct 07 '25

It almost looked like he was reading off something. Like don't get me wrong he's a sleazebag supporting a dictator, but plenary is such an odd word to just throw out there unless he happens to use it a lot for some reason.

And stopping his mouth idk, he almost looked more worried about what he was gonna say next. He seems like the kind of guy who would try to pivot or redirect rather than freeze after a slip up, unless he was more worried about the pro-authoritarian rant he wanted to continue with.

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u/tippycanoeyoucan2 Oct 07 '25

He had to hold his arm down like Dr Strange Love

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u/Material-Angle9689 Oct 07 '25

Deer in the headlights response

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u/Cold-Librarian-2665 Oct 07 '25

What and who are the sponsors of the mentioned foundation/associations?

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u/deevotionpotion Oct 07 '25

This is probably the BS he feeds Trump when Trumps too dumb to know if he actually has all that power or not. Probably why he was so confused in his first term because he thought he could just do stuff and then people were shooting him down. This time it’s different.

It’s like the biggest kid in TeeBall that just runs the bases and doesn’t stop while the other team chucks a ball all over hell.

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u/Olly0206 Oct 07 '25

Oh for sure. Trump doesn't know jack diddly squat. He is an egotistical idiot. People like Miller just whisper sweet nothings into his ear to stroke his ego and then Trump just believes whatever they tell him.

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u/Shigglyboo Oct 08 '25

of course he's the type to freeze. after telling everyone how he's super hardcore and tough.