Rick Wilson’s Severe Critique of Stephen Miller

Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, recently unleashed a heated and vulgar tirade targeting Stephen Miller, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security. He notably drew a parallel between Miller and a Nazi war criminal.

Part of this outburst stemmed from an incident involving a man named Alex Preti. During a discussion led by Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief John Nolte, Wilson expressed outrage over Miller labeling Preti, a nurse with a clean legal record who had a concealed carry permit in Minnesota, as a “domestic terrorist.” Miller baselessly suggested that Preti hinted at assassinating ICE agents, which, Wilson implied, was entirely unjustified.

Wilson, feeling the weight of his words, almost tweeted his sentiments earlier in the day, mentioning a strong desire to avoid backlash. He went on to state, “When this is done, I want Stephen Miller to be number one at the Nuremberg Trials,” hinting at the severity of Miller’s actions and wanting him tried and convicted for his role in the Department of Homeland Security and ICE.

The whole exchange arose in the context of Preti’s confrontation with law enforcement. Nolte claimed that Preti escalated the situation by bringing a loaded weapon. He painted both Preti and another individual, Renee Goode, as “villains deliberately held as martyrs by the organized left,” suggesting that the resistance against legal authority was being championed mistakenly.

This incident adds to Wilson’s history of incendiary remarks. In 2015, he controversially suggested that the Republican donor base might need to “put a bullet in the back of Donald Trump,” a comment that resurfaced after an assassination attempt on the former president in 2024. Recently, he characterized Trump as a “fascist” and a “danger to the nation,” vowing not to remain silent.

Simultaneously, the Lincoln Project has made statements regarding Trump’s threat to democracy, asserting that he and the MAGA faction condone political violence. In a 2022 interview, Wilson criticized Republican measures against election fraud as steps toward creating a “dystopian, bizarre, authoritarian police state,” emphasizing how such actions disproportionately impact voters of color in Democratic areas. In 2023, he claimed Fox News promotes radicalism within the Republican base, asserting that this influence jeopardizes the party’s and the nation’s future.

As a co-founder of the Lincoln Project in 2019, alongside notable figures like George Conway and Steve Schmidt, Wilson took a leading role in opposing Trump and his political agenda. The group, comprised of prominent Trump critics, describes itself as a “broad conservative (or classically liberal) group,” united by a commitment to uphold the Constitution in their efforts to defeat Trump in elections.