Gavin Newsom Says Stephen Miller, Not Kristi Noem, Is ‘The Dark Heart Of This Administration’ | EUROtoday

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) shared an intriguing idea Thursday behind the ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, arguing President Donald Trump had solely fired her to protect one senior official — the true “dark heart” of the administration — from accountability.

Newsom has been touring the nation to advertise his new memoir, “Young Man in a Hurry,” and was talking in New Hampshire on Thursday with progressive influencer Jack Cocchiarella when the topic of Noem’s firing got here up in entrance of a cheering viewers.

“I mean, let’s be honest here,” stated Newsom. “The dark heart of this administration is not Noem, it’s [White House deputy chief of staff] Stephen Miller, and he needs to be next. And it’s really true. In so many ways, she’s just a scapegoat in all this.”

He added, “Everything she was doing was designed by Miller. And I don’t think it, I know it.”

Trump introduced Thursday that Noem might be shifting right into a just-formed new place as “special envoy for the Shield of the Americas,” and confirmed he has nominated Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) as her substitute.

Noem was fired mere days after her disastrous listening to earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee, throughout which she refused to retract or apologize for smearing Renée Good and Alex Pretti after they had been killed by federal immigration brokers in Minnesota earlier this yr.

Noem baselessly claimed the 2 Americans had been participating in “domestic terrorism” when authorities brokers fatally shot them — and that Pretti was making an attempt to “kill law enforcement” earlier than he was disarmed and killed.

In non-public, Noem reportedly claimed that Miller and Trump had guided her rhetoric concerning the killings — just for them to go away her excessive and dry.

Miller has steered Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda and hawkish overseas coverage, brazenly justifying a “might makes right” strategy in seizing Venezuela’s oil and doubtlessly annexing Greenland by U.S. army pressure. He was additionally one of many architects of the journey ban on Muslim-majority nations throughout Trump’s first time period.

Newsom, in the meantime, has sparked rumors of a presidential run in 2028, criticizing Trump all through his ebook tour.

“Donald Trump is in retreat,” he stated. “Today is a perfect example of that, with the first firing of a high-profile Cabinet member. He’s in retreat in places like Minnesota, because the steel spine of citizens that stood up, real patriots in this country, pushed back against all that.”