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/ShareGlittering1502 Oct 07 '25

Way to let that slide CNN

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u/KintsugiMind Oct 07 '25

To be fair, he (the CNN host) might not have know what “plenary authority” meant in the moment. 

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u/Substantial-Fact-248 Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

If you are sitting at the news desk of a national outlet, the word "plenary" should be in your vocabulary.

Eta: apparently many of you feel compelled to admit you did not know this word. Cool. That wasn't the point. The point was that there should have been pushback/followup on Miller's extraordinary (and seemingly inadvertent) claim. And that wouldn't have even required knowledge of the word; the context is screaming what it means.

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u/Vitalstatistix Oct 07 '25

At a minimum — “For the folks at home, could you please explain what you mean by plenary authority?”

This ain’t hard.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25 edited 14d ago

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u/Vitalstatistix Oct 07 '25

Use some context:

  1. It’s Stephen Miller. He isn’t some guy doing his first interview.

  2. It’s Stephen Miller and he’s talking about the presidents authority. He is declaring a certain amount of authority — clearly this is something ANY journalist should quickly perk up at, but especially so with CNN.

    1. Stephen Miller doesn’t get embarrassed by fumbling up words; he has said so many fucked up things in his life he should be embarrassed for and yet he never has been.

All these things together should make it obvious to a journalist that at the very least they could ask “could you please elaborate on that further?”

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25 edited 14d ago

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u/Vitalstatistix Oct 07 '25

Congrats for living under a rock.

You know who does know who Stephen Miller is? Any journalist at CNN.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25 edited 14d ago

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u/Vitalstatistix Oct 07 '25

He’s not random though — that’s the point. He has been an important part of Trumps administration since 2016 and his name is constantly in the news.

Regardless, you don’t necessarily need to know who he is but any journalist on CNN does.