Noem Tells Hearing Rumors She’s Having An Affair With Her Top Aide Are ‘tabloid Garbage’ – Minutes After Her Husband Leaves Room

Kristi Noem was asked an excruciatingly nonstop mobility astir her narration pinch her apical advisor Corey Lewandowski, minutes aft her hubby near nan room.

“At immoderate clip during you tenure arsenic head of nan Department of Homeland Security, person you had intersexual relations pinch Corey Lewandowski?” asked California Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove astatine a House proceeding connected Wednesday.

“Mr Chairman I americium shocked we are going down and peddling tabloid garbage coming astatine this committee,” Noem replied. Her hubby Bryon Noem, who was antecedently seated conscionable down her done nan hearing, had near nan room earlier nan mobility was asked.

The awkward speech came during Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, astatine which nan DHS leader was besides grilled connected her responses to nan sadistic crackdown by migration enforcement officers successful Minneapolis, which near 2 protesters dead.

It has agelong been rumored that nan caput and Lewandowski, her apical adviser, some of whom are married, person engaged successful an extramarital affair. They person many times denied nan allegations and nan caput has called them a “disgusting lie.”

However, Noem’s refusal to contradict nan accusation straight led Kamlager Dove to continue.

“It is good for you to beryllium offended by nan question,” she said. “But it is simply a existent mobility and you should beryllium capable to reply nan mobility intelligibly and without immoderate hesitation if personification is asking if you aliases immoderate national charismatic is sleeping pinch their subordinate.

“You should beryllium wanting to reply that mobility because it is not astir your activity life, it is astir your judgement.”

The California congressman said that Lewandowski “has a decades-long grounds of beingness artillery intersexual harassment, forbidden lobbying for a Venezuelan lipid institution and bringing a loaded weapon into a national building.”

“Trump knows that this feline is shady,” she said.

Last period a bombshell expose by The Wall Street Journal lifted nan lid connected nan alleged “chaos” of nan DHS nether Noem and Lewandowski’s leadership, besides reviving rumors of their alleged affair.

The outlet reported that “the adjacent narration had already made Trump and his apical advisers uncomfortable,” adding that nan president had rejected nan thought of Lewandowski serving arsenic Noem’s main of unit “due to reports of a romanticist narration betwixt nan 2 – which he has continued to bring up, officials say.”

The Journal also noted that Noem had moved into a government-owned waterfront location connected a subject guidelines successful Washington, D.C., provided for nan caput of nan Coast Guard, aft tabloid photos of Lewandowski “showed him going backmost and distant betwixt his flat and Noem’s crossed nan thoroughfare past year.”

A DHS spokesperson told The Journal that Noem had moved into nan location for information reasons and said she pays rent astatine nan property.

The Independent has contacted nan DHS for remark astir Noem’s questioning astatine nan committee Wednesday.