"Why are you yelling?” the reporter asked as Trump’s senior adviser refused to clarify the source of information he was spreading about Venezuela’s crime rate.

Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller had an on-camera meltdown after being asked by a journalist to back up questionable claims he was making about Venezuela’s crime rate, video of the episode posted to social media shows.

The four-minute video shows an emotional Miller yelling at NTN24 reporter José María del Pino on Tuesday after del Pino questioned Miller over his claims that Venezuela has become safer than the United States because its convicts are now all in the U.S.

Miller also repeated a since-debunked story that a Venezuelan gang has taken over Colorado apartment complexes.

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Whataboutism on display and a beautiful parry back to the question he asked everytime. That reporter should be commended for his tenacity.

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Wait? You mean Trump and his gaggle of kleptocrats could have been easily defeated all along if the mainstream media were populated by actual journalists instead of agreeable sycophants who just nod their heads and continue manufacturing consent?

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Everyday we’re not talking about Jan 6th because it’s not great for ratings is another day the media failed us.

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Hats off to how professionally calm José María kept his voice on the follow up questions, making it clear that Miller was pretending to be outraged. A calm question after an angry rant meant Miller would start quiet again and have to dial his pretend rage back up. You could see Miller catch himself not being angry enough!

Fantastic!

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Good catch… Then he started getting actually angry, except not about whatever he was whinging about.

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It also beautifully displayed how fragile they are. Just push them a tiny bit and they go apoplectic that you don’t just swallow their bullshit like their eager sycophants.

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Yeah, it’s very easy to set them off and make them lose it by just being consistent and not backing down or following their rambling.

This reporter showed exactly how every question put to them should be handled.

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Anyone have a video link that doesn’t go to that shithole twitter?

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It doesn’t go to Twitter, it goes to an even worse shit hole called X.

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potato pOtAtO

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A pile of shit is still a pile of shit no matter how many smiling faces you put on it. 💩

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Not a lot of smiling faces there these days, I reckon

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