Donald Trump's Speech Writer was Product of Santa Monica High

SANTA MONICA, CA -- One of Donald Trump's top advisors and speech writer was a product of Santa Monica High, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The city of Santa Monica is a bastion of leftist liberalism that locals sometimes jokingly called it the People's Republic of Santa Monica, so it is surprising that Stephen Miller, 31, would turn out to be ultra conservative.

But it was the liberal environment at Samohi that shaped Miller's political view, according to the Times. Miller didn't like the school's Spanish-language announcements or the festivals of minority cultures on campus. He saw it as the decline of the American educational system, according to the Times.

This didn't earn Miller many friends, but Miller saw it as a challenge to overcome to express his true beliefs.

"These challenges were some of the toughest I faced in life,” Miller told the Times in an interview. "When we think of nonconformity, we tend to imagine kids in the ’60s rebelling against 'the system.' This was my system. My establishment was a dogmatic educational system that often uniformly expressed a single point of view."

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