New: A top White House aide intervened to get a $620 million Pentagon loan for a company tied to Donald Trump Jr.
“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved.
https://t.co/duvJ0cQ9bH
Kristi Noem lied under oath.
She handpicked four companies for her ad campaign, and her “special” government advisor was at the helm of it.
We just referred this false statement to the Justice Department for investigation.
.@SenBlumenthal has written a letter to @KristiNoem about her denial that Corey Lewandowski has a role in approving contracts at DHS.
"I demand that you amend your testimony" and "provide the basis for your apparent false statement on the record."
New:
Kristi Noem claimed to the Senate yesterday that Corey Lewandowski has no role approving contracts at DHS.
But internal DHS records and interviews with current and former agency officials contradict her testimony:
https://t.co/BCRYI24bDu w/ @js_kaplan
New:
Kristi Noem claimed to the Senate yesterday that Corey Lewandowski has no role approving contracts at DHS.
But internal DHS records and interviews with current and former agency officials contradict her testimony:
https://t.co/BCRYI24bDu w/ @js_kaplan
Here’s our story that the senator is referring to: https://t.co/zcP6GLPf22
To be clear, we didn’t report that the Strategy Group got the majority of the money. The full breakdown of where the money ended up still not known.
KENNEDY: How do square your concern with waste with the fact you spent $220 million running TV ads that feature you prominently?
NOEM: The president tasked me with getting the message out to the country and other countries where we were seeing the invasion come from
KENNEDY: You're testifying that President Trump approved them ahead of time?
NOEM: Yes sir. They were effective
KENNEDY: Well, it was effective for your name recognition. To me, it puts the president in a terribly awkward spot
KENNEDY: How do square your concern with waste with the fact you spent $220 million running TV ads that feature you prominently?
NOEM: The president tasked me with getting the message out to the country and other countries where we were seeing the invasion come from
KENNEDY: You're testifying that President Trump approved them ahead of time?
NOEM: Yes sir. They were effective
KENNEDY: Well, it was effective for your name recognition. To me, it puts the president in a terribly awkward spot
1/ As the Trump administration destroyed USAID this year, Marco Rubio and his aides said over and over: 1. Lifesaving operations would continue around the world and 2. Nobody had died because of the cuts
NEW:
We uncovered records showing President Trump himself got two principal-residence mortgages that match his own description of criminal “mortgage fraud.”
The year was 1993 …