Speaking on air after President Donald Trump fired Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem on Thursday, March 5, Fox News Channel personality Jacqui Henrich dropped some major news on air, and revealed what was really going on in the background that led to the president’s momentous decision to fire the DHS secretary.
As background, the decision to fire Noem seemed to come out of the blue to many, but appeared to have been sparked by an ad campaign that the Secretary spent an immense amount of taxpayer money on that appears to have been exceedingly wasteful, and have been a contract that went to insiders who wanted to profit rather than those who could do the job the best.
However, according to Heinrich, who spoke about the matter to FNC anchor Martha MacCallum on “The Story” on Thursday, there was more going on than just the debacle of an ad campaign, however infuriating it might have been. In fact, she revealed, issues like an affair to major leadership problems might have caused the rift and firing.
Beginning, she explained that the president typically does stand by his Cabinet members even when the media is trying to stir up trouble, saying, “I’ve been asking officials here about what went into the president’s thinking, because sometimes we see these rumors that he’s unhappy with an official in his Cabinet and then he stands by them.”
Continuing, however, she cited insiders to point out that Noem has become known for leadership catastrophes,and the president got tired of it. She said, “But it sounds like from people close to him, very close to him, who can speak to his thinking, the quote that I was given was it was ‘a combination of her many unfortunate leadership failures, from Minnesota to the ad campaign, to the allegations of an affair.’”
Adding to that, Heinrich noted that, while those issues were major long-term problems that were driving the president and his allies up the wall, the straw that broke the camel’s back was “this ad campaign, though,” and it “really tipped the president over the edge.”
Heinrich further noted, commenting a bit more on that scandal, “Secretary Noem was questioned about the $200 million in advertising that she authorized that featured her prominently on horseback at Mount Rushmore. It was an ad campaign about border security. And she told Congress that the president approved of that campaign, even though apparently he did not.”
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She then explained, noting how that played in to the overall mess, “And then there were also these rumors of an affair with Corey Lewandowski, special government employee who was serving as an advisor. He is also married. And reports floating in the last several weeks that Noem had sought to appoint Lewandowski as her chief of staff, but the president blocked that decision amid these rumors of an affair.”
Concluding by noting that it was the combination of everything that did in Secretary Noem, Heinrich then explained, “So the combination of those factors that tipped the president’s decision to elevate Markwayne Mullin into this position and get him confirmed.”
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