White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller did not use his pregnant wife, Katie Miller, as a shield during the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner shooting.
“They could not give Stephen Miller a good news cycle if they tried,” Katie, 34, said during a Monday, April 27, appearance on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle. “They had to make me the target.”
She added, “To that I would say, Stephen did a phenomenal job and he was behind me and protecting not only me, but our baby.”
Katie, who is pregnant with her and Stephen’s fourth baby, attended the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner alongside her husband on Saturday, April 25. When shots were fired outside the ballroom, footage showed Stephen, 40, helping his wife off the ground and moving her in front of him.
“How do you stand up eight months pregnant from the floor? You really can’t without help. So my dear husband lifts me up,” Katie recalled on Monday. Katie further claimed that her and Stephen’s security detail told them she should go first. “The threat was behind us.”
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Katie also addressed the photos going viral on social media where Stephen’s hand appears to be on her breast as they evacuated the Washington Hilton.
“What everyone sees is, maybe, my husband copping a feel, but what I would say is that he wasn’t going to put his hands on my stomach, because that’s where our baby is,” she explained. “He just moved his hands upward.”
Katie added, “Of course, you don’t notice that in the moment, and later that night, I see it on X. There’s this very funny post and I look at Stephen and I was like, ‘Did you really need to do that?’”
Stephen had no idea what she was referring to, seemingly due to all the chaos.
White House officials were dining with journalists and members of the media on Saturday when shots were fired outside the ballroom. Alleged shooter Cole Tomas Allen was arrested nearby, armed with several weapons.
Allen, 31, was charged with three criminal counts on Monday. Federal prosecutors alleged that he was armed with a 12 gauge pump action shotgun, a .38-caliber semi-automatic pistol and three knives. Allen boarded a train to Washington D.C. with the weapons.
“Mr. Allen has no prior arrests or convictions,” his court-appointed defense attorney said in court on Monday. “He is presumed innocent at this time.”
