Stephen Miller Vows To Destroy ‘Vast Domestic Terror Movement’ Behind Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

WASHINGTON—White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller grew emotional Monday as he spoke with Vice President JD Vance about their late friend, Charlie Kirk. Miller vowed to channel the anger and sadness he felt at Kirk’s assassination into dismantling the domestic terror movement in the United States, telling Vance: “It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”

Miller joined Vance as the vice president hosted The Charlie Kirk Show in honor of the show’s namesake, who was killed by a shooter last week while speaking with college students in Utah. Miller shared that in the last message Kirk sent him, the day before he was killed, the TPUSA founder urged Miller to implement an “organized strategy to go after the left-wing organizations that are promoting violence in this country.”

Miller did not specify what Kirk was specifically addressing. But his comment came about two weeks after a trans-identifying shooter killed two children and injured many others when he opened fire on a Catholic school mass in late August. That shooting came two years after another trans-identifying killer targeted Christian school children in Nashville.

On September 4, a week before Kirk’s murder, The Daily Wire reported that Justice Department officials were considering blocking trans-identifying people from buying firearms in conversations on the “range of options” following the Annunciation school shooting.

Kirk’s words left a deep impression, Miller told Vance, saying: “I will write those words onto my heart and I will carry them out.”

The White House deputy chief of staff was emotional as he shared the “incredible sadness” and “incredible anger” he has felt over the death of his friend. Unfocused anger or blind rage is not productive, reflected Miller, but “righteous anger is one of the most important agents of change in human history.”

“We are going to channel all the anger that we have over the organized campaign that led to this assassination, to uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks,” said Miller.

He explained: “The organized doxxing campaigns. The organized riots. The organized street violence. The organized campaigns of dehumanization, vilification. Posting people’s addresses, combining that with messaging that’s designed to trigger and incite violence. And the actual organized cells that carry out and facilitate the violence.”

Miller argued that there is a “vast domestic terror movement” alive in the United States.

“And with God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Justice Department, Homeland Security, and throughout this government, to identify, disrupt, dismantle, and destroy these networks, and make America safe again for the American people.”

Miller has emerged at the forefront of the conversations surrounding the radical ideology that inspired Kirk’s killer. The day after Kirk was murdered, Miller posted on “X” and spoke out against the ideology behind Kirk’s death.

“There is an ideology that has steadily been growing in this country which hates everything that is good, righteous and beautiful and celebrates everything that is warped, twisted and depraved,” he wrote. “It is an ideology at war with family and nature. It is envious, malicious, and soulless. It is an ideology that looks upon the perfect family with bitter rage while embracing the serial criminal with tender warmth.”

“Its adherents organize constantly to tear down and destroy every mark of grace and beauty while lifting up everything monstrous and foul,” Miller explained. “It is an ideology that leads, always, inevitably and willfully, to violence — violence against those who uphold order, who uphold faith, who uphold family, who uphold all that is noble and virtuous in this world. It is an ideology whose one unifying thread is the insatiable thirst for destruction.”

The White House deputy chief of staff pointed to the posts online cheering for the assassination of Kirk, writing: “We see the workings of this ideology in every posting online cheering the evil assassination that cruelly robbed this nation of one of its greatest men.”

“Postings from those in positions of institutional authority — educators, healthcare workers, therapists, government employees — reveling in the vile and the sinister with the most chilling glee,” he reflected. “The fate of millions depends upon the defeat of this wicked ideology. The fate of our children, our society, our civilization hinges on it. Now we devote ourselves, with love and unyielding determination, to finishing the indispensable work to which Charlie bravely devoted his life and gave his last measure of devotion.”