A Trump campaign veteran coordinated Indian diplomatic meetings, flagged social media posts and tracked trade talks, showing the central role of a lobbying firm in India-US interactions during a tense period in 2025. https://thewire.in/diplomacy/meetings-more-meetings-social-media-flags-trade-talks-inside-the-extensive-role-of-a-lobbyist-in-india-us-relations
A Foreign Agents Registration Act filing submitted December 7, 2025, reveals that for six months, spanning India’s biggest military confrontation with Pakistan in decades as well as the fraught trade negotiations with the Trump administration, the Indian Embassy effectively outsourced nearly all diplomatic contacts to a lobbying firm.
The filing documents at least 60 contacts between Miller’s firm and US government officials, from cabinet secretaries to White House chiefs of staff to Fox News anchors. The filing was first posted by an X user on January 4.
India has so far paid Miller’s firm US $900,000 for six months of work, split into two payments of US $450,000 each on April 25 and July 28, in 2025. The total contract is for US $1.8 million for the year.
Miller was a senior communications adviser and one of the most visible spokespersons during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, who later served as a senior adviser in the 2020 and 2024 campaigns. After Trump’s return to office in January 2025, Miller landed the Indian government as his first – and only – disclosed client.
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