Leaked Messages Reveal Grip of ICE Barbie’s Lover

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Reuters/Getty Corey Lewandowski had a prominent decision-making role in the Department of Homeland Security when it was led by Kristi Noem, his rumored lover, internal emails and…

Corey Lewandowski had a prominent decision-making role in the Department of Homeland Security when it was led by Kristi Noem, his rumored lover, internal emails and Signal messages show.

Lewandowski, who was at the department from January 2025 to March 2026, was an adviser to Noem as a special government employee, but was also described as her “de facto chief of staff.” During their tenure, questions mounted about the true scope of Lewandowski’s influence, and about their rumored affair, which they have denied.

Now, new information reveals the former Trump 2016 campaign manager was involved in planning deportations of illegal immigrants to third countries, as well as the controversy over the deportation of Kilmar Ábrego García to El Salvador.

In emails and Signal messages obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by liberal watchdog group American Oversight and shared with Politico, senior DHS officials showed “considerable and unusual deference” to Lewandowski, considering he was only a special government employee, the outlet writes.

In one instance, Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Troy Edgar directed aide Clark Barrow to file a report with “S1 and Corey,” he wrote in an email, referring to Noem.

Then-DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, then-ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan, and then-DHS senior official Joseph Mazzara each updated Lewandowski via Signal chat about various department projects.

Additionally, according to the report, Lewandowski often received the same high-level briefings that Noem and Edgar did. One concerned a deportation case, while another related to DHS operations in the East African country of Djibouti. The nature of that latter briefing wasn’t revealed, but eight noncitizens in ICE custody were stranded at the country’s U.S. naval base last year after a court blocked their deportation flight to Sudan.

Lewandowski enjoyed seeing deportations carried out, the messages also make clear.

On July 5, 2025, in response to hearing about the…

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