MaddowBlog-In Minnesota, Bovino is out, Homan is in, and Noem is humiliated [View all]

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As one report summarized, the latest developments are “nothing short of a public humiliation” for the beleaguered homeland security secretary.

In Minnesota, Bovino is out, Homan is in, and Noem is humiliated - MS NOW

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Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino has been the public face of the Trump administration’s immigration operations, which meant it was Bovino who held a press conference in Minnesota on Saturday after federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti.....

Bovino’s career path took a sudden change soon after. MS NOW reported:

Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino will no longer oversee immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, a senior Trump administration official told MS NOW, as the White House scrambles to deal with the outrage over Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis. […]

There will also be a reduction of Department of Homeland Security officers in Minnesota, two officials briefed on the matter told MS NOW on condition of anonymity to discuss law enforcement deployment details.

For a White House that likes to pretend that it never backs down under pressure, it’s rather obvious that Donald Trump and his team agreed to shake up its operation under intense, bipartisan pressure, even from some of the president’s like-minded allies....

A Politico report noted the larger context, after emphasizing that the DHS secretary appears to have been “sidelined”:

For Noem, it’s nothing short of a public humiliation; pushed aside from her department’s highest-profile operation following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti — and following her ill-judged response. Homan ‘will report directly to me,’ Trump announced on Truth Social, and the message could hardly have been clearer.

If, sometime soon, Trump publishes an item to his social media platform announcing that he has decided to nominate Noem to serve as an ambassador to some faraway land, no one should be too surprised.