The Wall Street Journal dropped a bombshell expos about Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and her ally, Trump world mainstay Corey Lewandowski, on Thursday evening that is poised to rock Washington, D.C. Here are the five wildest revelations from the Journals bruising and comprehensive story.
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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has defended the administration's handling of the files, while acknowledging that most people would not be satisfied by the information contained inside the documents.
"There's a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents and ... there's nothing I can do about that," Blanche said last month.
"There's this built-in assumption that somehow there's this hidden tranche of information of men that we know about, that we're covering up, or that we're choosing not to prosecute," he continued at the time. "That is not the case."
"I don't know whether there are men out there that abuse these women. If we learn about information and evidence that allows us to prosecute them, you better believe we will," the deputy attorney general added. "But I don't think that the public or you all are going to uncover men within the Epstein files that abuse women, unfortunately."
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More: According to the Journal, President Donald Trump and his advisors are "uncomfortable" with Noem and Lewandowski's "close relationship."
"Lewandowski had initially wanted to formally serve as Noem's chief of staff, but Trump rejected the idea due to reports of a romantic relationship between the two"which he has continued to bring up, officials say," it reported. "After tabloid photos of Lewandowski showed him going back and forth between his apartment and Noem's across the street last year, the secretary moved into a government-owned waterfront house on a military base in Washington that is provided to the leader of the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard falls under Noem's purview at DHS during peacetime. Lewandowski also spends time at the house. The DHS spokeswoman said Noem moved to the house for increased security and pays rent. Lewandowski and Noem, who are both married, have publicly denied the reports of the affair, but people said they do little to hide their relationship inside the department."