Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller does not enjoy playing with dolls, and any assertion otherwise is "baseless gossip," the White House was forced to tell a reporter.
RollingStone published a deep-dive report on Miller over the weekend, in which it is revealed that Trump officials call Miller nicknames behind his back, and are "paranoid" that he will find out. The report also includes a quote from a former classmate, who says Miller dropped him as a friend due to his Latin heritage.
But it doesn't stop there. The outlet also delves into Miller's time during Obama's presidency.
"In the decades that followed, Miller did not grow — except to become more hardened in his extremist views," according to the report. "When he worked as a communications aide in the office of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions during the Obama years, he was so widely disliked by his conservative colleagues on Capitol Hill that Republican staff in other offices would invent or spread malicious rumors about Miller, such as that he liked to play with porcelain dolls."
RollingStone reached out to the White House about Miller during this time, and they offered a statement:
"A White House official insists that any such characterization of his time on the Hill is 'inaccurate and baseless gossip,'" the outlet notes.
The report goes even further, saying, "The staffers at the time never dreamed that he’d ever amount to much more than a punch line or an obscure cautionary tale of what happens when you read too many far-right hate websites and dive into Washington’s most feverish swamps."