"Tolerance for criminality": Why top Republicans are turning on Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller

It was a few weeks before the 2016 election, and Sid Miller’s political star was on the rise.

At a rally in Michigan, then-first-time presidential candidate Donald Trump interrupted his stump speech to give Texas’s top agriculture official a shout-out.

“Great guy. Big white cowboy hat,” Trump said, noting Miller’s signature accessory and praising him as one of his most vocal and loyal allies in the Lone Star State.

After winning the White House the first time, Trump endorsed Miller twice for his reelections in 2018 and 2022 — in primaries where Miller cruised to victory. Trump called the Stephenville Republican his “man in Texas,” and when he won his second presidential term in 2024, there were reports that Miller was being considered for agriculture secretary in the presidential cabinet.




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