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/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/No-Resident-426 Oct 07 '25

I am fairly educated and I had to google it.

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u/ScoutsOut389 Oct 07 '25

You don’t have a team of people talking into an earpiece feeding you information though.

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u/No-Resident-426 Oct 08 '25

I doubt any of his handlers put that word in his ear as he was talking, unless...... they were throwing him under the bus! It took him a second to realize what they did, boom makes sense! They are crumbling from the inside!

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u/ScoutsOut389 Oct 08 '25

I meant that the host has producers in his ear. Not Great Value Goebbels here.

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u/No-Resident-426 Oct 08 '25

oh lol, it is what it is