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Disgraced former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is trying to spin President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to fire her by claiming that she plotted with him to effectively can herself. <\/p>\n

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\u201cI know it seemed that way to the American public, but the president and I had been talking about it for about a week or two before that,\u201d Noem told Fox News\u2019 Maria Bartiromo Tuesday of her March dismissal. <\/p>\n

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The former secretary, whose habit of cosplaying as an immigration agent during her tenure at DHS earned her the nickname \u2018ICE Barbie\u2019, went on to claim that both she and the president \u201cknew there might be a transition, and we had conversations about it.\u201d She added that she had also spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio about her imminent firing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI appreciate both of them wanting to keep me a part of the team, the valuable asset [sic] and knowledge that I have, that I bring to the table, and my chance to be involved with this administration, to do good work, is really important to the Western Hemisphere,\u201d she told Bartiromo. <\/p>\n

Noem has since moved on to a new gig as \u201cSpecial Envoy for the Shield of the Americas,\u201d heading up a security initiative so freshly invented that even the administration has struggled to explain what the job actually involves. Trump reportedly conjured up the idea the same day he fired Noem, with its chief achievement to date being a summit at one of the president\u2019s golf clubs. <\/p>\n

Her recollection of her firing is perhaps rosier than the actual sequence of events would suggest. Critics blasted Noem from almost the moment she was confirmed for running Homeland Security like a one-woman marketing operation\u2014posing with loaded guns beside enforcement officers, turning up to briefings in full tactical gear, and trailing a constant stream of in-house promotional footage.<\/p>\n

In one particularly memorable March 2025 episode, she toured El Salvador\u2019s notorious CECOT mega-prison while wearing an ICE cap and a roughly $50,000 gold Rolex, filming herself in front of caged detainees. <\/p>\n

Rumors also swirled throughout her tenure that she was engaged in an extramarital affair with her advisor, Corey Lewandowski, with whom she repeatedly traveled on a luxury Boeing 737 MAX leased at taxpayer expense, which the Daily Beast\u2019s sister Substack PunchUp reported DHS was set to buy for $108 million.<\/p>\n

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Lewandowski is currently under investigation for allegations of contract rigging in the department. Noem\u2019s husband of three decades, Bryon Noem, is meanwhile reported to have been living a secret online double life, paying thousands of dollars to women in a fetish subculture known as \u201cbimbofication.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those scandals unfolded as Noem charged ahead with delivering Trump\u2019s campaign promises of a nationwide immigration purge. The administration carried out dramatic, made-for-TV raids across multiple U.S. cities, almost all of them Democratic strongholds, as part of a pledge to remove the \u201cworst of the worst\u201d migrant criminal offenders. Statistics have since shown that fewer than a quarter of detainees had any criminal record at all. <\/p>\n

Things became terminal for Noem in January when federal officers shot and killed two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, during protests against immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis. Trump immediately dispatched border czar Tom Homan, who had warred with Noem behind the scenes throughout her tenure, to the city, which was widely seen as a rebuke to the secretary.<\/p>\n

The end eventually came the week of March 3, after a bruising Senate Judiciary hearing. Sen. John Kennedy repeatedly pressed Noem on a roughly $220 million taxpayer-funded DHS ad campaign that featured her riding horseback through the South Dakota wilderness, singing her department\u2019s praises. <\/p>\n

Noem insisted that Trump had not only known about the advertisement but had, in fact, actively approved it. The president was reportedly furious. He immediately began canvassing allies and, as Noem arrived at an event in Nashville on March 5, phoned her directly to deliver the news. A Truth Social post naming her successor went up the same day. <\/p>\n

Noem\u2019s replacement at DHS, former Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin, has said since taking on the role that one of his chief aims is basically to ensure the department is no longer in the headlines every single day, reversing many of his predecessor\u2019s policies and firing a number of her appointees.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s doing a good job,\u201d Noem told Bartiromo through gritted teeth Tuesday of Mullin\u2019s stewardship, adding: \u201cHe\u2019s got a lot of help, and that\u2019s wonderful.\u201d <\/p>\n

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The Daily Beast has contacted her representatives for comment on this story. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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