American Thought Leaders

[TSAS Special] On Censorship of Conservatives & the Accusations—White House Brief’s Jon Miller

By Jan Jekielek
July 25, 2019 Updated: August 15, 2019

At Turning Point USA’s Teen Student Action Summit, we sit down with Jon Miller, BlazeTV White House correspondent and host of “White House Brief” to discuss the young conservative movement, Trump 2020, the deterioration of education in America, and the accusations from “the squad” that President Trump is a racist.

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