The biggest bombshells about Kristi Noem and her top aide Corey Lewandowski from the Wall Street Jou

[Timber Rattler]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kristi-noem-corey-lewandowski-dhs-b2919869.html

A bombshell report has alleged that the Department of Homeland Security is in a state of “constant chaos” under the leadership of Secretary Kristi Noem and her top adviser Corey Lewandowski.

The Wall Street Journal cites sources within the department who are highly critical of Noem’s reign and paints an unflattering portrait of the secretary as a politician who has sought to “burnish her personal stardom at every turn.”

Noem has “staged a headline grabbing immigration crackdown while sidelining rivals and dissenters,” the newspaper states, noting the secretary’s penchant for posing in agency-branded flak jackets and caps and bearing guns as props “all with an eye to her style, with TV-ready hair and makeup.”

It reports that President Donald Trump has entertained calls to fire Noem and Lewandowski amid discontent about their management of the department, although he has so far refrained from doing so.

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It has long been rumored that the secretary and her top adviser, both of whom are married, have engaged in an extramarital affair. They have repeatedly denied the allegations and the secretary has called them a “disgusting lie.”

The WSJ nevertheless revives them and reports that “the close relationship had already made Trump and his top advisers uncomfortable,” adding that the president had rejected the idea of Lewandowski serving as Noem’s chief of staff “due to reports of a romantic relationship between the two – which he has continued to bring up, officials say.”

The newspaper reports that Noem moved into a government-owned waterfront house on a military base in Washington, D.C., provided for the head of the Coast Guard, after tabloid photos of Lewandowski “showed him going back and forth between his apartment and Noem’s across the street last year.”

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The report also alleges a heated personal rivalry between Noem and Trump’s border czar, who was sent in to Minnesota late last month to take charge of Operation Metro Surge following public uproar over the fatal shootings of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents. He has sent 700 agents home and is now winding it down entirely.

“Noem routinely berated staff if she saw Homan on TV and kept track of both their appearances to make sure she was on TV more than him,” the WSJ reports.

“On at least one occasion, she asked aides to ensure she drew a bigger crowd at a conference than Homan, who was speaking on a different day.”

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[Smokin Joe]

Remember the Fraud in Minnesota?
Billions of Dollars?
From the scruffiest of the poor to the Governor's office?
Daycares and Meal programs and medical travel services that just didn't do any of that?

Minneapolis/St. Paul having the highest (all perfectly legal) amount of cash declared in outbound international luggage?

All the Drama over ICE raids and protests?

NO?

Well, by jingoes! The deflection is working! (Did they find the newsreaders' mom yet?)

Now here come the attacks on the people running the show, in charge of fighting all that, coordinated with not getting funding done in Congress--even though the fraud programs got money and the one Congresscritter most likely to be raking it in not being investigated by the finance people, but rather ethics?

We know what Congressional ethics are: Just the accepted level of criminality in Washington DC. Hearings? Investigations? Committees?

Best described by one who really understood theater:

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle.
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

                      Macbeth.

[Timber Rattler]

Problem is that Lewandowski is a thug creep and it is common knowledge that he is not only more than Noem's "work husband," but also is the one actually running DHS (and not her).  THAT needs to be cleaned up.