With a long career in both the news media and the highest echelons of the New York Police Department (NYPD), John Miller has been one of the top media experts in everything from terror attacks to mass shootings like Wednesday’s massacre at Minneapolis’s Annunciation Catholic School.
It’s with that foundation that Miller beclowned himself all afternoon by watering down and dismissing the transgender shooter’s hatred of Christians, Jews, and President Trump (in addition to having attended the school and the shooter’s mother having recently retired from the school).
From one of his first hits to analysis just after 6:00 p.m. Eastern, Miller offered one mealymouthed excuse after another, declaring there “won’t” ever “be a specific motive” since the best explanation for the attack was that “he was in pain” and “hated everybody.”
Miller made his first on-camera appearances at 11:37 a.m. and 11:53 a.m. Eastern on The Situation Room with only a rough timeline of what appeared to have taken place.
He also weighed in after the first press conference from the scene, telling Inside Politics host Dana Bash that it was “quite a dramatic statement” for Mayor Jacob Frey (D) to denounce prayer and said there had to have been “an enormous amount of preoperational planning of intent” by a gunman whose “slow boil” and “vision” culminated in the attack.
By the 1:00 pm. Eastern hour and CNN News Central, Miller shifted his focus to motive and made it seem as though there was investigations to be done as to whether the shooter even left anything behind:
The following hour, he dreaded further down this road of lollygagging, declaring police were “looking at some online postings, purportedly from the same individual and these talk about — these are basically notes to friends and families where he talks about the pain he's been living in, that he doesn't want to live in pain anymore, that he knows what he is going to do is going to upset many people, his friends, his family, but he has to do this” and “indicate[d] in the same writings that he intend[ed] to take his life at the same time.”
Miller dropped the mystery of whether the transgender coward had said anything and argued at 3:04 p.m. Eastern that the real motive was they felt they were “in pain,” not necessarily their hatred for Christians:
Miller had assistance in gaslighting viewers in the form of Frey stating in a second press conference that there was “a whole lot of hate at our trans community” and he wouldn’t stand for people “villainiz[ing]” them and then the police commissioner repeatedly saying he didn’t know of a motive.
The vagueness wasn’t contained to just CNN on Wednesday afternoon. Here was ABC’s Aaron Katersky and NBC’s Tom Winters on network special reports:
Miller stooped even further to the bottom by blasting as a “moot point” any investigation into whether what the transgender miscreant did was a hate crime. He had the gall to assert the person “was filled with hate, not just for Catholics”
Former FBI official Katherine Schweit delivered this whopper:
Not to be left out, former corrupt FBI hack-turned-esteemed CNN analyst Andrew McCabe called for banning AR-15s:
Moving finally to The Lead with Jake Tapper, the lunacy included reporters on scene with CNN correspondent Whitney Wild describing the shooter’s videos as “bizarre” and “some of them are rambling, some of the information indicates that he had this real obsession with shooters and shows rambling written statements.”
And, as our Nick Fondacaro wrote, Tapper and former Obama official/CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem took care to use the shooter’s preferred pronouns.
Miller saved his worst take for last going into the evening:
