Trump Adviser Stephen Miller Championed Big Tobacco's Alarming Lies @alternet: Miller and Mike Pence both had a history of spreading lies about the dangers of smoking. The alarming past of President Donald Trump’s senior policy adviser has come under increased scrutiny lately after the 31-year-old archconservative repeatedly lied to the American public on several Sunday morning talk shows. Since his early teens, Stephen Miller has espoused hateful views on immigrants, people of color and liberals.