Michelle Hackman

That was explicit guidance given.

Over and over, what we heard is that Noam prioritized making a show out of enforcement over actually prioritizing effective enforcement.

Basically, she went on a trip, and her plane had a mechanical issue, so the team had to sort of switch planes at the last minute.

And the crew forgot to move her blanket onto the new plane.

Her top advisor, Corey Lewandowski, ended up firing the pilot, the head of the crew, for forgetting her blanket.

And the craziest part is, once they landed, they realized they had no one to fly them home, and so they had to reinstate the pilot.

Corey Lewandowski was, you know, Trump's very first campaign manager.

He's been at Trump's side, you know, ever since maybe 2015.

Trump perceives him as very loyal.

And we reported that Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who are both married, are in a romantic relationship.

And they've done, you know, very little inside DHS to hide that relationship from people.

He is always by her side.

He is her top advisor, right?

So he is something called a special government employee.

Listeners may be familiar with that because it's the same designation Elon Musk got.

It's supposed to be for sort of specialized private sector expertise.

It's supposed to be for a short stint inside the government.

But Corey Lewandowski still had a role in the private sector.

for his own consulting firm while also effectively serving as the chief of staff at DHS.

Now, he was supposed to serve only 130 days, but he played all sorts of games to extend that out.