Bill O’Reilly called Stephen Miller the “most powerful guy in the White House right now” in a conversation with former Trump official Mick Mulvaney. (Watch the video below.)

Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, is often credited as the architect of Trump’s immigration policy that again received a stinging rebuke (along with the war against Iran) at the “No Kings” rallies last weekend.

Mulvaney, the acting chief of staff in President Donald Trump’s first term, expressed concern to O’Reilly that Trump might be filling his administration with too many eager-to-please yes people. He even suggested that it led to Trump adding his name to the Kennedy Center.

“I don’t think Donald Trump came up with that,” Mulvaney said on the former Fox News host’s “No Spin News” podcast Sunday. “I think that was some obsequious junior staffer trying to get in good with the president, and I don’t think that serves him well generally.”

That prompted O’Reilly, the former Fox News host, to declare: “The most powerful guy in the White House right now is Stephen Miller. And Miller is more militant about everything than Donald Trump is. But I think that Miller still has the president’s ear. Would I be wrong on that?”

Mulvaney replied, “No, he absolutely does. You’re not wrong at all. The one thing about Stephen is that it’s a constant. Stephen was just as adamant and militant about this in the first term. He just is. I think one of the differences is that Trump really, really did latch on to immigration as one of the key issues in the 2024 election.

“That’s not to say that it wasn’t like that in ... 2016, but clearly him not being [Democratic nominee] Hillary Clinton was also a big part of it.”

O’Reilly then chimed in, saying, “And it worked. And you know Trump likes success, and Miller can take success.”

Fast-forward to 7:05 for that part of the discussion:

In the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, Democrats hope to extract concessions from Republicans to rein in operations by ICE officers and other federal agents to round up immigrants.

But nobody, it seems, will rein in Miller’s fealty to Trump.

He gushed recently, “What President Trump has done on border security and public safety is a national miracle that will be studied not only for generations, but for centuries to come.”

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