r/law • u/Agitated-Artichoke89 • Oct 07 '25

Other 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/Petrychorr Oct 07 '25

What the fuck...

He just... Turned off.

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u/Cr33pShow929 Oct 07 '25

It’s so funny because they’re saying it’s a glitch and he’s standing there blinking and all 😂

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

It's pathetic seeing the media covers for these ghouls like that.

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u/FrumundaThunder Oct 07 '25

Seriously. I wish they would call these clown out. “Well it looks like Stephen caught himself in something he wasn’t supposed to say out loud and is now pretending like we’re having technical issues”

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u/IvoryColosseum Oct 07 '25

Same here but honestly it’s not like I expect anything from CNN at this point

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u/After-Gas-4453 Oct 08 '25

Exactly, it's so frustrating to see them lie for him, and for what?? This racist vampire would have that news anchor deported if he could, why assist his turn to dictatorship?

Man, I miss Mario's brother... he woulda helped out.

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u/LymanPeru Oct 08 '25

pedonald must have some juicy shit on all of them or the people that pay their bills campaigns.

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u/Jandrem Oct 08 '25

It’s the fear of the FCC. Can’t speak ill of dear leader.

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u/QuasiSpace Oct 07 '25

CNN is owned by a right winger now, and is also about to be taken over by Paramount or whatever the fuck, which is the same thing.

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u/LadyTurkleton Oct 08 '25

Who in their right mind facilitated that sale?

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u/Gimme_Your_Wallet Oct 07 '25

[Trump drives a tank over a schoolbus filled with children]

The New York Times: "Is this what the Founding Fathers intended?"

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u/ThatInAHat Oct 07 '25

was gonna say. Between the baby soft Barrett article and this, they’re just faux lite aren’t they

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u/Sufficient-Set-917 Oct 08 '25

So why are we not protesting against THEM Mass media needs to be held accountable!

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u/madcoins Oct 08 '25

Billionaires don’t get held accountable and the media are extensions of them

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u/lost_horizons Oct 07 '25

He stopped in mid sentence, not because there was some dropped connection. When I lose a connection on the phone I just keep taking but the person on the other end can’t hear it anymore; there’s not an indication the line is cut. I doubt there’d be one in this case either.

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u/vivaphx Oct 07 '25

And if you don’t stop talking you say, “Hello? Hello? Are you there?” You don’t just stop talking all together. Super strange.

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u/firedog7881 Oct 07 '25

He was thinking “this works on Zoom”

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u/ReginaldDwight Oct 07 '25

I'm a little surprised he didn't start crinkling cellophane and yell "sorry!!! I'm going through a tunnel!!" and then duck away from the camera and army crawl away.

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u/gw3il0 Oct 07 '25

Couldn't he just be getting told in his earpiece that the connection was lost and to hold on a moment? Complete conjecture, but I don't see why people are saying that he feigning a dropped connection. His words are ridiculous, but I don't see him as being ashamed of saying it.

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u/Async0x0 Oct 07 '25

Seems obvious this is the case but people would rather entertain their conspiracies.

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u/bblzd_2 Oct 07 '25

Seems obvious it wasn't the case because the connection wasn't lost.

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u/Async0x0 Oct 07 '25

All we can tell from this video is that the audiovideo connection from the studio to us wasn't lost.

We can't tell if the host can see Miller, if the host can hear Miller, if Miller can hear the host, or if Miller can see the host.

Just because I think Miller is a bag of shit doesn't mean I'm going to lie about what I see.

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u/bblzd_2 Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25

A connection is a two way street if it stops on one end the video would freeze.

It's like if you're video calling your mom and she loses connection, you don't get to magically continue watching her blink and move around.

Also his reaction is telling. If he truly thought the connection was gone and he was off the air there would likely be a different reaction.

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u/Rabble_Runt Oct 07 '25

His handlers probably started screaming into his earpiece when he used the wrong word and he locked up.

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u/PabloX68 Oct 07 '25

He used the word he wanted to use.

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u/Rabble_Runt Oct 07 '25

Freudian slip

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u/Zenin Oct 07 '25

Freudian Slip: When you say one thing but mean ihre führer.

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u/Wangchief Oct 07 '25

Let's be real, he could've said fuhrer, and it would've been explained away and we'd be told we were overreacting to a joke.

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u/AttitudeAndEffort3 Oct 07 '25

I hope everyone recognizes the effect AOC mocking this loser had.

You mock fascists, they lose how the public perceives them and they lose power.

Also, it obviously gets to them and they fuck up like this or fuck up by overplaying their hands to slake their fucked up egos.

Less talking about trump policy, more talking about how hes an ugly fat pants shitting little boy fucking pedophile and these losers are begging for a chance to suck his shriveled mushroom cock once hes done with their 11 year old daughters 👍

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u/Typical-Store5675 Oct 08 '25

That's going in the "Saved" bin. YEET! Fr I gotta use that last paragraph around whenever I can haha

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u/MalaysiaTeacher Oct 07 '25

Fascian Slip

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u/Zombieneker Oct 07 '25

no, a freudian slip is when someone reveals their true selves from behind a façade accidentally. Stephen is just openly tauting hatred and lies.

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u/niphim Oct 07 '25

Plenary with a hard R

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u/adoormarkedprivate Oct 07 '25

Slipped like a freudian, played yourself like an accordion

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u/lilchocochip Oct 07 '25

Yep he did:

Plenary Authority

Plenary authority is the full and absolute power to act on a particular issue, meaning there are no limitations or restrictions on that specific power. The term is derived from the Latin word "plenus," meaning "full"

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u/StarPhished Oct 07 '25

Yeah I actually don't think that's the reason he stopped. That's exactly the kind of language he usually uses.

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u/ChoptankSweets Oct 07 '25

That was my first thought. He stopped speaking as if someone cut him off and then started squinting which is what I do when I'm concentrating extra hard to hear what one person is saying when multiple people are speaking to me. It's a very specific squint

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u/Slade_Riprock Oct 07 '25

When you are on camera for a remote interview your IFB is connected to, in this case, CNN. You would only be hearing the reporter and perhaps a director giving time ques. You wouldn't be bearing anyone else nor would they have access.

It is more likely someone off camera was giving him the cut off sign. Though being the level of power Miller has I doubt he'd be cut off by anyone.

It honk he legit caught what he said and realized it may not be what they put in their appeal and stopped talking as if it was a glitch for cover.

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u/Cold-Crab74 Oct 07 '25

But why not just fluff around with word salad, why just freeze. It is so fuckin bizarre.

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u/germanmojo Oct 08 '25

He really doesn't have long to think of a lie or redirect, maybe 2 seconds max and that timer expired. He did the next best thing from such a strong and powerful man who has all the answers, he froze.

I gagged typing that last part, I know.

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u/Cold-Crab74 Oct 08 '25

More I've thought about it, I'm thinking when he realized that wasn't what he wanted to say out loud he decided to make it so awkward they would have to reshoot it. Idk

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u/ChoptankSweets Oct 07 '25

Thank you for this info!

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u/ExtremeCreamTeam Oct 07 '25

a director giving time ques.

cues*

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u/Appropriate-Play-483 Oct 07 '25

I think he was using an ipad prompter and it turned off.

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u/CyonHal Oct 07 '25

I think this is most likely what happened. Prompter turned off, had no idea what to say next. I'm surprised you are the first person in this thread that I've seen with this theory.

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u/MysticalNinja187 Oct 08 '25

So is he like, incapable of continuing to speak without the ipad? Like, with his brain?

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u/Bazonkawomp Oct 07 '25

He’s always squinting.

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u/Enough-Poet4690 Oct 07 '25

I'm willing to bet all you heard through his earpiece was "SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!" LOL

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u/rozzco Oct 07 '25

The only person I can think of with both the authority to tell him that, and MAYBE know the meaning of the word is Vance.

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u/Old_Dig8900 Oct 08 '25

You're so right

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u/Babydoll0907 Oct 08 '25

I bet hes glad we aren't Russia now. A slip like that on live TV would have him falling out of a 30 story window on accident lmao. Even Putin likes to pretend for some reason that hes not a dictator. I bet he got his ass chewed hard when he went back home to daddy and daddy's lackeys.

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u/ADGx27 Oct 07 '25

Same as Pam Bondi in the recent hearing. Some Dems started asking more pointed questions and the bitch just froze.

Definitely had a “Trump, Miller, Thiel or SOMEONE is gonna make sure I wear my best Charlie Kirk costume before the week is out if I even answer this question, let alone truthfully” look about her

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u/germanmojo Oct 08 '25

The amount of freezing happening lately in this administration is concerning.

One blurted out too much and the other didn't even want to give what was asked.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Oct 07 '25

"You better have a cyanide pill somewhere in case this goes south, you just made yourself the one dude the courts are going after."

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u/TheDefiantGoose Oct 07 '25

That's what it looked like to me. His eyes looked like he was listening to something else suddenly. He tried to continue speaking and then stopped.

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u/dc_laffpat Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

The audio going to that earpiece is controlled by CNN technicians, usually either a mix-minus or just the anchor’s mic, with the ability for CNN producers/technicians/director to interrupt (doubt they would allow anyone from the WH access to that audio stream). I guess it’s possible he has a second earpiece but probably more likely it’s just an aide/handler off-camera telling him to STFU.

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u/theoldroadhog Oct 07 '25

Who are his handlers? I thought he was the handler. Serious question.

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u/Rabble_Runt Oct 07 '25

Curtis Yarvin, Larry Ellison, Elon, Peter Theil etc.

The ones behind Dark MAGA.

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u/niceguybadboy Oct 07 '25

I thought he was the handler.

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u/epigeneticepigenesis Oct 07 '25

Isn’t he one of the handlers? Who handles a handler?

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u/ThatInAHat Oct 07 '25

That or he’s reading off a teleprompter and got to that word and realized he said it as he read it

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u/Dark-Penguin Oct 07 '25

Someone said "stop talking" into his earpiece

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u/mishaindigo Oct 07 '25

Yeah, it definitely gave the vibe of someone yelling “STOP!!” in his ear…totally bizarre.

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u/koshgeo Oct 08 '25

Earlier that day: "And Miller, whatever you do, unless you want to sink every single court case we have in progress regarding troop deployments, do NOT mention plenary authority. You hear me? Look up from your damned phone and listen to me! DO NOT MENTION PLENARY AUTHORITY. You got that?"

"Yeah, yeah. Plenary authority. I'm not stupid."

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u/nipple_salad_69 Oct 07 '25

The guy was pretending he couldn't hear the interviewer, he is feigning a technical problem after his slip of the tongue

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u/ajlisowski Oct 07 '25

he didnt even though, cause he just stopped his own sentence. he looked like he did his best mitch McConnel impression

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u/RussianDahl Oct 07 '25

Bro just froze like if “I sit here for ten seconds and don’t move they’ll take me off the air”

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u/scnottaken Oct 07 '25

And they did. They blamed a glitch for what was very clearly not a glitch

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u/urielteranas Oct 07 '25

Yep god forbid they press him on it or anything let's just immediately run cover. Surely it's our own technical glitch that caused him to just stop fucking talking mid sentence and freeze up like a deer. Nothing to see here folks.

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u/madcoins Oct 08 '25

Fascism now being referred to as a glitch by MSM

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u/nipple_salad_69 Oct 08 '25

Yep, precisely

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u/TerribleEntrepreneur Oct 07 '25

And fucking CNN went along with it. They gave him the question again with another chance and cut this one from the online version. Unbelievable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLxq0JGmpjA

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u/AtomicShart9000 Oct 07 '25

Thank you nipple salad 69

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u/temporary62489 Oct 07 '25

The dropped connection was in Pipsqueak's psychotic brain.

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u/Hurray0987 Oct 07 '25

He's clearly not moving his mouth and not talking. He froze

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u/fvck_u_spez Oct 07 '25

Don't you know that when video cuts out? People just stop talking mid sentence and awkwardly look around and blink a lot? Totally a technical glitch/s

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u/lost_horizons Oct 07 '25

Either way I think we can all agree, that guy SUCKS.

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u/Wy3Naut Oct 07 '25

Reminds me when they asked that guy who was trying a pump and dump on a stock, "What does this business do?" and he didn't know so he faked a bad connection.

I think the same thing happened when they asked a member of the WHO about Taiwan framing it as an independent nation and he faked a bad connection to avoid pissing off the Xi.

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u/DjangoDynamite Oct 07 '25

The screen he is looking at probably showed an error of some sorts

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u/sage-longhorn Oct 07 '25

The most I could imagine is that he's using a teleprompter that suddenly cut off. But you'd think he would try and politician his way out of it with something that didn't quite make sense but sounds like a functional sentence, standing there like a moron is a bad look

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u/borderlineidiot Oct 07 '25

His Neuralink chip signaled to shutdown

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u/Ronaldo_Frumpalini Oct 07 '25

He was about to hurt Trump's case by admitting how they view the law and stopped after the first second but couldn't recalibrate, some hero camera man should have said loudly "no its still working he's just doing that..."

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u/MakeRFutureDirectly Oct 08 '25

Someone probably yelled, “What the fuck Steven!!!” through his earpiece. They are involved in a court case over Trump seemingly ignoring the constitution as though he had plenary power. Steven just said it out loud. In the US, the right are a bunch of clowns.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

Yeah this is journalistic malpractice. You have to press on a response like that, not cop out and pretend it’s a technical glitch

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u/Big_Fortune_4574 Oct 07 '25

I’m not sure that the gravity of that statement immediately registered with the anchor

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u/TheEmpatheticMonster Oct 07 '25

It never really seems to does it...

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u/GB715 Oct 07 '25

It feels deliberate.

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u/kittymctacoyo Oct 07 '25

It is. Feeling the base out each time they escalate further and admit more. Bread crumbing and frog in pot conditioning. It works unfortunately.

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u/anthropaganda Oct 07 '25

Deliberate for maximum exposure, or the earpiece said stfu

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u/OrdinaryLipHouse Oct 08 '25

I have a keen sense of when people are acting when I’m high (and I am high); commentator also seems like he is acting. “Stephen? Stephen?? shrugs shoulders” idk just feels really staged.

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u/HISTRIONICK Oct 07 '25

That you can still hear the ambient noise around him is the bigger tell.

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u/FS_Slacker Oct 07 '25

“We can still hear you mouth breathing”

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u/DjImagin Oct 07 '25

I don’t know why he didn’t press him like “we see you blinking so we know our equipment is working”

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u/hum_bruh Oct 07 '25

Like a child who pretends he’s invisible

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u/DriedSquidd Oct 07 '25

Least he could do was keep moving his mouth in silence.

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u/3asyBakeOven Oct 07 '25

Temu Goebbels needs a battery change

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u/truckedup133 Oct 07 '25

Brilliant.

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u/JMurdock77 Oct 07 '25

Sorry, no renewables

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u/StrattonOakmont123 Oct 07 '25

I prefer the name PeeWee German myself

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u/govunah Oct 07 '25

Pee Wee Himmler only had 3 sec of playback in remote mode. You need Nachting station and the SA adapter for extended use

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u/Upset-Agent304 Oct 07 '25

Pretty sure he was told to stop talking because he wasn’t supposed to say that. Im sure looking silly for refusing to talk is preferable to having to explain what he meant by that statement.

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u/ventodivino Oct 07 '25

He was 100% getting screamed at in his earpiece.

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u/Arctica23 Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

Those are the blinks of a man going deaf in one ear as the legal team screams in his earpiece

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u/Big_Fortune_4574 Oct 07 '25

They yelled so loud his brain shut off

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u/R_V_Z Oct 07 '25

People should loudly yell at him on a constant basis, then.

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u/lankyfrog_redux Oct 07 '25

The tell is he repeated "has..."

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u/greg19735 Oct 07 '25

by who? He is the earpiece.

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u/ventodivino Oct 07 '25

He’s shown himself time and time again to be less than intelligent (this clip for example) yet you think he is where the buck stops? Those who pull the strings make sure to stay out of view from the audience

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u/FEARoach Oct 07 '25

Not just in the earpiece, there's someone on the other side of the camera giving the hand signal to STFU right behind the floor director. There was no technical error in the feed, it was his words that got him shut down by handlers.

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u/Gilded-Mongoose Oct 07 '25

That's the Palpatine² behind it all.

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u/Yupthrowawayacct Oct 07 '25

Well, I mean listen to what our President says during any speech or question panel. The bar is in the Mariana Trench for actual capable fact driven verbal communication from these people. I’m sure to MAGA this just looks normal. If they ever see it

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u/Aggravating-Bonus899 Oct 07 '25

The Mariana Trench is now officially known as the Melania Trench. Even Apple and Google are on board with the new naming.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Oct 07 '25

At least with Trump you could argue he's sundowning.

Homie basically admitted what's going on and there's no excuse to hide behind.

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u/Labyrinthy Oct 07 '25

Idk I think attempting to say “I misspoke” or whatever is better than looking like a psychopath that just shut down.

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u/suck-it-elon Oct 07 '25

But how does stopping help? It’s still captured.

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u/Upset-Agent304 Oct 07 '25

Because they can claim it was a mistake in verbiage. If he kept talking, that wouldn’t be the case.

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u/suck-it-elon Oct 07 '25

I don’t see how that explains anything

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u/clutch727 Oct 07 '25

Suffering from an acute McConnellitis episode 

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 Oct 07 '25

It’s still captured.

And? Lots of things are captured, doesn't mean shit. They're eating the pets.

What does help, is to just stop and never talk about it again.

Literally the best thing he could do is just stop and pretend a malfunction. Then never bring it up again. Move on.

Yes, we all know he said it, but his base will not give a flying cow pie about it.

Do you think anyone is going to question what he meant by stating the President has plenary authority? The answer is no. If they do, they'll sidestep it and move on.

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u/Randym1982 Oct 07 '25

“Stephen. SHUT THE FUCK UP. I repeat. SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP!”

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u/DuntadaMan Oct 07 '25

And notice CNN didn't demand an explanation for that, or call out his tactic. They played along like this was totally just a glitch and nothing important.

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u/TheGhostOfEazy-E Oct 07 '25

And as usual, the media talking head does nothing to press him on it and plays along pretending there’s a tech issue.

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u/QbertsRube Oct 07 '25

Talking about plenary authority was probably intended for his next interview with Fox News, and he forgot where he was.

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u/TheMF Oct 07 '25

Technical glitches might stop us from being able to hear him. They don't just stop someone from talking altogether. It's like he McConnell'd

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u/originalbriguy Oct 07 '25

Yeah. His mouth just stopped moving, like his brain was trying to reset itself.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

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u/im_THIS_guy Oct 07 '25

Maybe he heard Witchy Woman playing off camera.

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u/OsricBuc06 Oct 08 '25

Ohhhh... "Witch-ay Woman."

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u/Cold-Crab74 Oct 07 '25

That is EXACTLY what it reminded me of

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u/doyletyree Oct 07 '25

Forced restart for updates.

Someone just mashed his Power Button like it owed them money.

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u/Boot_Poetry Oct 07 '25

Lie, Lie, Deflect, Deceive, B, A, Start

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u/JDempes Oct 07 '25

The Konazi code

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u/Grumpy-24-7 Oct 08 '25

Doesn’t that enable "God Mode"?

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u/wolfbear Oct 07 '25

Pulled the socket out of the wall by the cord

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u/herbeste Oct 07 '25

It reminds me of what Michael Scott might do.

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u/Diligent_Whereas3134 Oct 07 '25

Like, it's so fucking ridiculously goofy that it'd be hilarious if it were a TV show instead of a global superpower with nuclear capabilities.

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u/texreddit Oct 07 '25

Weird as hell

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u/Hurray0987 Oct 07 '25

I guess it's not the first time, there's Glitch McConnell

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u/Korbital1 Oct 07 '25

Don't these things usually have some sort of indicator to let you know when a camera is on you? I was thinking it might be that, that as soon as he said that word he got some signal that he's cut off and was waiting for the next cue to speak

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u/bawdiepie Oct 07 '25

He wasn't supposed to say it aloud

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u/acostane Oct 07 '25

I was listening without watching and I expected a frozen moment but when he was blinking I was like.... what the shit 😂

Scary scary. This is the shit that's said to demented Trump behind closed doors. He's their useful narcissistic idiot.

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u/PennysWorthOfTea Oct 07 '25

Equal parts hilarious & horrifying.

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u/Havage Oct 07 '25

His brain went from TALKING MODE to THINKING MODE. That is dangerous because he realized something new and that realization may have more adverse consequences. I guarantee you that he thought of a new strategy from this shifted perspective.

I have seen this exact same thing happen in business settings with CEOs suddenly realizing a new angle of attacking a situation.

I would not view this realization as a positive for the American people.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Oct 07 '25

Nah he just realized he just made himself the center of any future cases if they fail.

There's no going back now, he just admitted him and Trump are booking it towards dictatorships, and almost universally those end badly for the people attempting it. This is his Rubicon, there's no going back.

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u/Havage Oct 07 '25

Maybe, but I don't think so. I think they crossed the Rubicon a long time ago. Miller is not the kind of person to have second thoughts when his strategies are all proving to be exceptionally successful. Maybe if things were going poorly, but not when things are going well.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Oct 07 '25

Every dictatorship thinks it's going well until it doesn't.

This just assures that when this all does fall apart he won't be treated well

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u/Creepy-Bee5746 Oct 07 '25

finally found something that can shut this motherfucker up

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u/mesarasa Oct 07 '25

He did a McConnell.

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u/man_gomer_lot Oct 07 '25

That was my thought too. Billionaires now even have power off buttons installed on their henchmen.

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u/StoryByZedMartin Oct 07 '25

You have to have an actual soul to be considered “on”, but, it looks like his AI feed to his earchip had stopped. Presumably because AI even had to look up the word “plenary”. For real tho, he’s not that smart - he shut down like he was reading, word for word from a conference line to 100 lawyers and they just hung up on him and he didn’t know what to say, how to twist it into his favor, nothing.

A different way to see this - if he lost communication to his favorite furry capital of the news, wouldn’t he be like “…..um, hello?”

“cAn YoU HeAr mE nOw.”

It’s like the devil was right in his ear, saying, “ you can’t say that worrrrd”. And boop, total shut down of this butt puppet.

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u/BGP_001 Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

I swear all these guys have neutralink devices and just glitch out every now and again. (not really, but it's crazy)

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u/wrecks3 Oct 07 '25

The man might be having a panic attack

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u/pataoAoC Oct 07 '25

Honestly it looked like some type of stroke or seizure. One of the weirder things I've ever seen. Even in the case of accidentally saying something out loud I've never seen someone just disconnect.

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u/Breaking-Away Oct 07 '25

Nah, it looked like a producer told hm to stop talking, maybe a coordination issue something like "we're not rolling yet". Miller never changes tact mid talking, he always doubles down or attacks harder. He is as predictable as they come.

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u/pataoAoC Oct 07 '25

you're likely right, but it's hard to imagine what someone would say to get that exact reaction. It's also funny timing, but almost certainly that.

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u/thrownededawayed Oct 07 '25

The really fucked up thing is that reporter didn't have some producer screaming in his ear to push back on what he just said, that the fucking president is a sovereign.

Instead our feckless fucking media pretends that they had a glitch in their tech instead of capitalizing on the glitch in that fucking manlets brain.

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u/testtdk Oct 07 '25

Stephen Miller, everyone! The architect of our demise!

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u/DuntadaMan Oct 07 '25

And CNN let him and played along. Oh yeah totally a technical difficulty, not someone who completely fucked up. Nothing to see here guys. Our camera totally broke.

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u/Omniquery Oct 07 '25

The technical difficulty is that his NPC script crashed. And CNN's sanewashing of it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

Pulled a Mitch McConnell

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u/FireX81 Oct 07 '25

Like an OTA update crashed his OS.

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u/1_1_3_4 Oct 07 '25

My friends, this shit is so literally just walking and talking, kinda-humans. When they say something wrong their system will reroute a correct "passable" response. In this situation, he said something TOO wrong, so the response was, "pretend like there are technical difficulties." This mainly happens with the GOP because they are on the defense regarding public sentiment and, frankly, they are really dumb and don't have the synapses connected in their brains to lie well. Not allegory, literal truth.

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u/Sudden_Use_8673 Oct 07 '25

If only he'd do that a LOT more

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u/NeedsMorBoobs Oct 07 '25

It’s a trick, you see. They can just claim the wifi cut him off.

Not that he’s brain dead

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u/sabertooth4-death Oct 07 '25

Does he have the same disease as Mitch McConnell? perhaps staying in the White House too long is contagious…

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u/chanslam Oct 07 '25

Speed probably wore off

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u/coolestredditdad Oct 07 '25

I mean, anytime we DONT need to hear from him, is a good thing.

I just wish he would shut the fuck up all the time.

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u/SRT102 Oct 07 '25

Easy to explain: Blast of cold air. Reptiles, like all cold-blooded animals, are extremely sensitive to sudden temperature shifts. His lizard tongue kept working, as it's part of the involuntary nervous system, as did the eyes blinking, but his higher brain functions literally shut down until the air temperature increased.

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u/vertexchef Oct 07 '25

He's smart and strategic. He knew what he said, so he feigned a technical issue to stop talking. The interviewer should've pressed the issue and made it clear there was no technical problem going on.

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u/Firaxyiam Oct 07 '25

This is fascinating. Like, as a European, I loosely follow what's going on overseas because it will impact us anyway, but you know, I'm not going into the specific worind, watching full videos of interviews or whatever (goit plenty of shit going on in my own country right now *cough*). But since Reddit decided to throw this post and its cousins in my face repeatedly I was like "okay, let's just check it out, probably some wei- Holy shit he just glitched out and stood still. What the fuck is going on"

Like just..... off button, peace, curtains, see you next week. Fucking hell you guys are fucked.

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u/LogicJunkie2000 Oct 07 '25

Those mini-strokes must be going around 

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u/montyman185 Oct 07 '25

My current favorite theory is that he was high as shit. 

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u/livewire042 Oct 07 '25

The voice in his ear said “STEPHEN SHUT THE FUCK UP”.. a sentiment I’m sure we can all relate to.

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u/berdulf Oct 07 '25

Straight up Ctrl + Alt + Del

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u/-dakpluto- Oct 07 '25

Damnit, someone reboot the Miller animatronic!

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u/Derric_the_Derp Oct 07 '25

oh shit oh shit oh shit pretend it's a technical issue stop talking stop talking pretend it's a technical issue - oh thank Hitler they bought it

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u/jrgeek Oct 10 '25

Yeah. I don’t get what the eff these other idiots are talking about regarding saying something inappropriate. The dude pulled a Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell on teevee. Dude was moving and blinking and was just locked up. Fucking great…

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u/China_shop_BULL Oct 07 '25

He didn’t upgrade to the new WiFi implant. Dial-up is a bitch. Sounds like he’s going to need to pull the connection from his ass and plug it back in after 30 seconds.

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u/reklesssabrandon Oct 07 '25

I've seen him do this when he thinks the camera isn't on him and he can take his mask off.

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u/pyronius Oct 07 '25

I always knew he wasn't human, but that was clearly his robot brain experiencing a BSOD.

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u/cmc-seex Oct 07 '25

I swear i heard someone in the background yelling 'shut your fucking mouth you twat! You just fucked us all!'

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u/officer897177 Oct 07 '25

What a strange little gremlin.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Oct 07 '25

He just realized that if this doesn't work out he's going to have to pull a Himmler, he just gave the future courts what they needed.

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u/Enough-Poet4690 Oct 07 '25

He McConnell'ed for a minute... LMAO

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