Posted on 02/27/2026 2:42:40 PM PST by AirForceVet1988
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s blanket fiasco may not have been about a blanket at all.
The so-called ICE Barbie allegedly had her rumored beau, expired-special-employee Corey Lewandowski, fire a Coast Guard pilot last May after Noem neglected to bring her favorite weighted blanket onto the second flight of one of her trips.
But three DHS insiders that spoke with the Daily Mail indicate that the spectacle may not have been about an abandoned blanket, but rather a mysterious bag with potentially embarrassing contents.
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(Excerpt) Read more at newrepublic.com ...
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We can take a pretty good guess, if they are in a relationship.
There is only a few things, in this context, that would cause embarrassment.
Probably special kinds of toys.
That’s my guess.
Kristi N. is a Gutsy Gal, not the type who embarrasses very easily.
I feel bad for my brother Coast Guardsman and likely others who have to endure that type of work environment. Being a pilot, big money and opportnities away on the outside. Go for it.
Yeah, go fly a bunch of executives or celebs who make 10 million bux a year around, they’re always kind and gentle to the hired hands.
Corey Lewendowski is a civilian, and can’t fire military personnel. Either can Noem.
The New Republic is trash along the lines of the National Enquirer. The want to use innuendo to try to say something bad was in the bag, like that matters anyway. The Noem-Lewandowski “ affair shows bad judgement and Lewandowski’s firing of the pilot was arrogant and ridiculous, but the low rent New Republic is lower in the gutter than they are.
This is a blatant hit piece to start rumors. The key word in the first sentence, “may.” Consider the source. New Republic.
Corey Lewdandloudski.
I was just going to post something similar. The New Republic is leftist garbage. I don’t believe anything they publish.
Yep.
Thanks for pointing that out. I was going to type much the same thing. ....
It is kind of like the breathless lies that float around saying that JAG arrested and executed (one or another) politician.
As if JAG had the authority to arrest any civilian, much less carry out an execution.
Contraceptives? Sex toys? No idea just speculating... Before this story, I didn’t even know there was anything going on between Kristi Noem and Cory Lewandowski. Didn’t know either one was married to other people either.
Unless they are into drugs, what else could they be other than sexually related?
The rumor is that Cory and Kristi are having a relationship.
“”””But three DHS insiders that spoke with the Daily Mail indicate that the spectacle may not have been about an abandoned blanket, but rather a mysterious bag with potentially embarrassing contents.””””
The author seems to be following Candace Owens with this hit piece.
We have seen the anti-Trump media are perfectly willing to make up stuff to embarrass anyone in the Trump administration.
The odds are this is a nothingburger.
Unless they are into drugs, what else could they be other than sexually related?
Possibly, sure.
Old news.
Could be anything, inlcuding a firearm.
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