Noem and Lewandowski’s close relationship had already made Trump and his top advisers uncomfortable. Lewandowski had initially wanted to formally serve as Noem’s chief of staff, but Trump rejected the idea due to reports of a romantic relationship between the two—which he has continued to bring up, officials say.
After tabloid photos of Lewandowski showed him going back and forth between his apartment and Noem’s across the street last year, the secretary moved into a government-owned waterfront house on a military base in Washington that is provided to the leader of the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard falls under Noem’s purview at DHS during peacetime. Lewandowski also spends time at the house.
Lewandowski and Noem, who are both married, have publicly denied the reports of the affair, but people said they do little to hide their relationship inside the department. The DHS spokeswoman said the department “doesn’t waste time with salacious, baseless gossip.”
The pair have lately been using a luxury 737 MAX jet, with a private cabin in back, for their travel around the country, according to people familiar with the matter.
How weird. I recently ran across that song while putting together a Funny play list on Spotify. I’ve probably listened to it fifty times in the last few weeks.
They don’t apparently do original either, as South Africans will recognize from the 2009 movie “Invictus”, a real incident at the fairly iconic 1995 Rugby Cup Final, where an SAA pilot illegally flew a Boeing 747 at very low altitude over the stadium with “GO BOKKE” painted on the lower side of the wings.
The modern-day Lysenkos who have taken over the US health administration apparatus are continuing their busy efforts to tear down scientific rationality.
“Helicopter pilots were wounded pretty badly in the legs landing on the couple of machine gunners seemed to have make it through a thicket of bombs. But they were taken out rapidly by our snipers who stationed on platforms. Hellu-- actually unbelievable, helicopter platforms all the way the line” (I’m sorry, WHAT?!)
“We won World War 1. We won everything. World War 2. And everything before, during, and a little bit after except we fought a little bit differently. We fought to be politically correct. We were a politically correct force with the presidents. But now we have a real force.” (Ah, yes, the famously politically correct presidency of (checks notes) Richard Nixon.)
“Greenland is gonna want us … We are negotiating right now for Greenland.” (We are not, in fact, negotiating right now for Greenland.”
“You could get whatever the dust is down there. If we do it, that’s really the least of we mission. But we’d probably grab whatever is left.”
“The new battleship that we have which I helped design. I want that ship to look gorgeous. Forget about stealth. They design ugly equipment for stealth. We design great looking equipment, also stealth.”
“We’re also purchasing 30 new and modified Abrams tanks. Named in honor of Stacey Abrams”
“Maybe I’ll move here with our great movie star will move here. With our first lady. We’ll move to fort Bragg. Would you like that darling? She loves it.”
“Your 401(k)s are doing very. I don’t have to ask you. Is anyone doing poorly with their 401(k)?” (The military does not offer 401ks.)
Aww. How sweet. But let’s see what the crimes really were.
Perjury? Why am I not surprised the guy convicted of lying pardoned someone convicted of lying?
Four hundred pounds? That’s quite the personal use stash. I trust y’all’ll forgive me for speculating maybe this newfound friendship between the felon and Newton might be the cause of the rambling mentioned just upthread.
Maybe the rambling’s cause was a twofer.
Or a threefer. And counterfeiting? That’s related to dishonesty, too, isn’t it? See above about my lack of surprise.
“I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the near future.”
Sure you have, grandpa. Will we be seeing it in two weeks?
Since we’re discussing those “highest standards of professionalism” at ICE, I’ll just drop this here:
Small potatoes when compared to so many of their indefensible actions, but still demonstrative of how hard they’re trying to provoke a basis to shut down demonstrations and/or impose the Insurrection Act.
Just today, Adam Kinzinger made what I think is an excellent point about Regime hopes for widespread violence in Minnesota (and presumably in Oregon, California, Illinois, etc., too).
Americans haven’t been taking the bait. It’s not at all what Stephen Miller et al expected.
“Whether approved by Congress or not” means he’s going to do his dictator stunt. Personally, I hope he tries it now so he can be impeached and tried after his party loses their majorities in both houses this November.
I assumed it means he’s sundowning, because this is like the fifth or sixth time since last January that he’s made a declaration like this via tweet and then not followed up on it.
This is how I remember it [AI results from a search]:
Donald Trump frequently expressed a desire to move the island (superstructure) on USS Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carriers, complaining that the new, rearward placement looked wrong compared to traditional designs. He reportedly argued for moving it back toward the middle of the ship, citing aesthetics and functionality, despite military officials explaining the design advantages.
The former president also said that the command center, commonly known as “the island,” was positioned too far back and not close enough to the middle of the carrier.
The island “looks really bad — it’s stupid,” Trump said…
