Donald Trump has a “guillotine” above Kristi Noem’s head in the form of false stories he has likely been planting about her in the media, according to a former DHS insider.
Former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor, who has claimed his home was targeted by a break-in shortly after he published a scathing “Anonymous” op-ed about Trump’s presidency, appeared on MS NOW over the weekend to talk about his former agency.
Specifically, he was asked why Trump is keeping Noem around despite reports saying she might be fired. While Taylor didn’t know that answer, he did note that in the first Trump administration, Trump and his allies would leak false stories about people getting fired all the time.
“Well, he did a little bit of this in the first term. Donald Trump and his aides were the source of leaks about people they were going to potentially fire. They did that on purpose. I mean, people at the White House told me at the time they did that on purpose to keep cabinet secretaries on their toes so they would intentionally leak stories that they were maybe going to fire someone just to make sure that that person stayed loyal to the president,” he said on Sunday. “Now, I don’t know, in this case, if the past couple of months Donald Trump has been the one leaking the stories about potentially firing several people in his cabinet, but I strongly suspect based on the first term he or his staff were, and then he goes out there and denies that they’re going to get rid of people, but they do that to make sure that those cabinet members know that the guillotine is raised above them, so that they don’t make any false moves so that they don’t contradict the president, and so that they are loyal. This, he felt like, worked decently well in the first term. He’s deploying it again in a second.”
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