As part of the fallout over the Saturday shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Donald Trump held a two-hour Monday night meeting with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, her de facto chief of staff Corey Lewandowski and other key members of his administration.
According to MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire, who was not invited was as notable as who participated.
With the White House reeling and the Department of Homeland Security facing heightened scrutiny after two killings of innocent bystanders in less than three weeks, the president is reportedly “recalibrating” how his administration is managing its anti-immigrant roundups and media strategy.
According to the New York Times, “The meeting came after Ms. Noem requested to see the president, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a private meeting.”
Invited to hear Noem and Lewandowski was White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director.
With the future direction of DHS being under discussion, Lemire raised an eyebrow that Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s immigration purge, was excluded.
Addressing the Trump ICE turmoil, Lemire told the “Morning Joe” panel, “We saw [Border Patrol Commander Gregory] Bovino being moved out — The Atlantic is reporting that even he’s soon to retire. And then we had Secretary Noem and Corey Lewandowski in this meeting at the White House yesterday — Stephen Miller, not part of it, interestingly enough.”
“And we’re told that their job is safe for now, but it’s very clear there’s at least a little bit of a de-escalation from Minnesota as the president and his team see poll numbers and realize this is not going well for them,” he added.
This shit is what sickens me to my core. The WH isn’t doing anything about the murders because they’re murders. They’re doing it because his poll numbers are down.
It’s like a fucking serial killer is running America.
Turns out having a former reality TV star and failed business person as a president might not be the best idea.
Like?
Also, Trump’s not running America. He just sits on the throne and the people that got him elected (who made their fortunes off of the serial killer industry) guide his hand when it’s turn to move a piece on the chess board.
The leader of the “free” world is murdering protestors in the U.S. while criticizing the Iranian government for murdering protestors. Not just because he’s really that fucking dumb, because his own actions signal to other leaders the behavior that’s acceptable.
The U.S. is intentionally enabling and emboldening Iran as a pretext for their future intervention/invasion.
They’re probably about to clean house and get rid of the most vocal and obnoxious members of the administration to show how “serious” they’re taking this. Maybe they’ll even impeach Trump this time before they “officially” intervene in Iran, but replacing the hand that moves the pieces with team Vance/Rubio really doesn’t make a difference.
I agree that it sucks our federal leadership doesn’t care about the morality of their actions as much as the optics. But sometimes you have to hit them where they’ll feel it to get results. If bad polling is what it takes, then I’m on board.
Demented sociopathic rapist and pathological liar, but, yeah.
Bad news for him is that his polling numbers have been in the negative for just about his entire second term in office