White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaks during a press briefing at the White House on Thursday in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
"Most of your papers never covered her story when it happened, to the extent that you covered it at all, it was because President Trump forced you to cover it by highlighting it repeatedly over and over again," Miller said. "He had to shame you into covering it."
"And each and every one of you that sides over and over again with these MS-13 terrorists, to the extent that you had the financial means to do so, you all choose to live in condos or homes or houses as far away from these kinds of gangbangers as you possibly can," he continued.
Miller spoke at a press briefing at the White House with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Miller said that if he had offered the reporters present at the briefing a rent-free home with no taxes, but next-door to MS-13, Mexican Mafia or Sinaloa Cartel members, he believed the reporters would pass.
"I couldn't pay you to live there," Miller said.
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"But yet you, with your coverage, are trying to force innocent Americans to have these people as their neighbors and that one day their daughter may be abducted from their home and raped and murdered," he continued. "So you're not going to get an ounce of sympathy from this administration or President Trump for the terrorists who've invaded our homes in our country."
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