General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWiles and Miller 'fully turned' against two other top Trump officials as admin 'splinters'
By Nicole Charky-Chami
Published January 26, 2026 2:53 PM ET
The Trump administration was reportedly splintering Monday over the fatal ICE shooting of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
President Donald Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles and White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller the architect of the Trump administration's aggressive immigration policy have apparently turned on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, The Daily Beast reported. Lewandowski and Noem have been subject to multiple reports of a not-so-secret personal relationship, although neither of them have publicly addressed the claims.
The administration's senior leadership has questioned Noem's competence and decision to have Customs and Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino leading the operation as the "public face" for Trump's policies. Several of Bovino's moves had already come into question prior to Pretti's killing shocked Americans.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-admin-2675034827/
Hey Miller do you remember your mentor David Horowitz..............come on you can tell everyone. As for you and wiles throwing people under the proverbial bus............for over your entire lives you have propagated racism, hate to other human being, your morals are full of what's called proverbial shit. Noem and all of her lackeys at that murder incorporated agency should look in the mirror......... by starting with that orange hair traitor that said he could stand on 5th avenue and shoot someone and no would care.........well he is wrong...............
leftstreet
(39,240 posts)I always thought those two would turn on each other.
Maybe after they take out Gnome
riversedge
(79,864 posts)side--lined to the side??
Just wondering---but we will see
JI7
(93,321 posts)but more that they don't think they are doing as "good" a job of it and blame them being in a relationship for it ?
highplainsdem
(60,566 posts)vapor2
(3,989 posts)617Blue
(2,196 posts)tulipsandroses
(8,159 posts)under the bus to save Steven Miller. He's the mastermind. This sound like a purposeful leak to take heat off Miller.
Marie Marie
(10,993 posts)and shut the fuck up Stephen.
underpants
(195,349 posts)so naturally SStephen Miller upped it to 3,000 - which also puts the goal just over 1,000,000 per year.
Midnight Writer
(25,184 posts)Hiring a new cast will not change a thing.
What's next? Snooki as Homeland Security Director and Mike "The Situation" as Director of ICE?
underpants
(195,349 posts)Trump loves to keep people on edge and watch them squirm, his own people.
The murder of Renee Good Jan. 7th probably kept her in place. It would look like an admission of guilt or being wrong.
It seems she was supposed to just glam it up and be a show 🙄 while her actual Deputy (not Lewandowski) and Homan run things as Miller sees fit.
Good article here on the backlash coming from even inside the GOP.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/26/white-house-reckons-with-gop-backlash-after-federal-agents-kill-a-second-person-in-minneapolis-00746737
bronxiteforever
(11,172 posts)about her. Just like Speer I dont buy the act.
rubbersole
(11,058 posts)Well, Pam Bondi seems to use correct punctuation in her failing court filings. There's that.
Lonestarblue
(13,287 posts)I wrote a couple of them on NYT articles, but calls were frequent for Miller to be fired. Trumps personal Nazi is behind much of the violence, not that Trump cares.
AverageOldGuy
(3,470 posts)I dropped my Raw Story account years ago because of their propensity to publish crap that someone pulled out of very thin air.
Even if part of this is true, Miller is pissed at Noem and Co. NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE MURDERING PEOPLE, but that they are not doing it with plausible deniability. Noem, Bovino, and company got caught -- Miller wants people who won't get caught.
Nothing will change except the names at the top.
haryn
(35 posts)...that any of them have had Lady Macbeth's apparent bout with her conscience over the blood on her hands, but there are millions of us who are happy to point it out. My husband, daughter & her family were on a march in Boise yesterday. Amazingly, even the local papers are saying over a thousand were there, and that was with no time to organize it.... and marched, to the accompaniment of honking car horns in support. My thinking is that if in such a red state as Idaho (we live in a very blue bubble in Boise) that finally the momentum is growing and will begin to tilt the country back to some semblance of sanity.
SSJVegeta
(2,479 posts)(As far as we know)
But they were totally willing to put a puppy killer in charge of Homeland Security.