Katie Miller, the wife of President Donald Trump’s influential speechwriter and policy adviser Stephen Miller, has spent recent months hosting a podcast that critics have widely dismissed as an uninspired effort to soften her husband’s image and recast figures from the Trump administration in a gentler light. The project leans heavily on Miller’s identity as the spouse of a powerful political figure, a role she appears comfortable embracing.
An extensive new profile in Slate, however, paints a more complicated picture of Miller’s past. According to the report, written by Tess Owen, Miller, née Waldman, once harbored political ambitions of her own and was deeply involved in student government while attending the University of Florida.
