Stephen Miller’s wife, Katie Miller, has broken her silence on criticism aimed at her husband, following the WHCD shooting scare. She dismissed claims that he used her as a “human shield” while evacuating from the premises.
Katie Miller reacts to Stephen using her as ‘human shield’ claims
A photo of Stephen Miller and his wife, Katie Miller, being escorted to safety during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting incident on Saturday night is going viral online. The image shows the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy appearing to walk behind Katie while grabbing her chest from behind, while the security personnel guided them out of the venue.
The photo has since sparked backlash with many netizens claiming that Miller used his wife as a “human shield.” Katie Miller has now addressed the criticism and defended her husband during a recent appearance on Fox News.
Speaking on The Ingraham Angle, Katie Miller recalled, “At that moment when the detail came up, I said, ‘Oh, well, this must be real, and I should be walking very quickly.'” She then explained the difficulty of moving swiftly while being eight months pregnant.
“So my dear husband lifts me up, and Brian, who’s our detail, says to Steven, ‘She goes first.’ So, I went first because the threat was behind us,” Miller explained. She added, “And so what everyone sees is my husband maybe coping a feel, but what I would say is that he wasn’t going to put his hands on my stomach because that’s where our baby is. And so he just moved his hands upward.”
Miller was initially unaware of the backlash brewing on social media against her husband. “Later that night, I see it on X. There’s this like very funny post, and I look at Steven and I was like, ‘Did you really need do that?’ And he’s like, ‘What did I do?’” she shared.
Katie Miller went on to dismiss claims that her husband used her as a “human shield.” She stated, “I saw that and I said, ‘They’re really desperate at this point. Now they’re just trying anything, throwing anything out there.”
Originally reported by Namrata Ghosh on Mandatory
