Michelle Hackman
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And another Democrat gifted her a new blankie.
John Kennedy is a senator from Louisiana, and he really turned on Kristi Noem in this hearing.
And he asked her why she spent so much money on these ads, what the point was.
You know, she said, did they work?
And he said, they worked to promote your own self-image.
Well, they were effective in your name recognition.
And she made what I think was basically her fatal mistake
In that interaction, she told him, you know, President Trump actually signed off on these ads.
In Trump world, there's a lot you can get away with.
But one sort of cardinal rule is that you never blame Trump or you never implicate Trump when you've made a mistake.
We were told that when Trump saw that she had implicated him, that is when he snapped and made the decision and said, she's done.
We need to find a replacement for her.
It's almost like she's an envoy to Latin America so she can continue some of the work that she was doing, fighting drug cartels, transnational gangs, the things that she liked to talk a lot about as DHS secretary.
But, you know, it's not a cabinet position.
It's also, you know, something that basically is redundant because we have ambassadors all over Latin America.
And, you know, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, Latin America is sort of his personal sweet spot.
Mark Wayne Mullen is a senator from Oklahoma.
This guy, Ryan, is a former MMA fighter, and fighting seems to be sort of the way that he approaches his current job, and I think that's how we should expect him to come into this new one.
I think that Mark Wayne Mullen, you know, he is someone who doesn't shy away from confrontation.