Michelle Hackman
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And she was like walking through very cavalierly.
And at one point toward the end of the tour, she pulls aside with her aides and they start shooting a video.
And behind her are these prisoners and they're like stacked up in bunk beds, four high, really cramped in there.
They're all shirtless and bald.
And it's really stark contrast because you have Nome there, you know, with perfectly coiffed curls and wearing a $50,000 Rolex watch.
You know, we saw that there was guidance to ICE officers that, you know, they should film every interaction, every arrest, and that the more confrontational arrest was, the better.
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.