Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Trump Doesn't Care If His Proposals Become Law

Immigration restrictions? Affirmative action rollbacks? Banning transgender soldiers? The point is to rile up the base.

August 3, 2017 at 9:30 AM EDT

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

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Stephen Miller is back.

The White House's immigration expert burst onto the legislative scene back in January, when he was the public flag-bearer for President Donald Trump's bungled executive order seeking to restrict immigration from seven mostly-Muslim countries.

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