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Donald Trump’s most senior adviser Susie Wiles discovered the president’s controversial pick for ICE director at the same time as the rest of the world—when he posted about it on Truth Social while she was at her daughter’s wedding, PunchUp has been told.
Since Trump’s June 27 social media announcement, his nominee Richard “Lance” Schroyer, 54, has faced an ongoing backlash over accusations that he is too inexperienced to run such a large and important agency, and that he was chosen for the role only because he is an old buddy of DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, 48.
Now multiple senior sources close to the administration have told PunchUp that Mullin got his man because he visited Trump in the White House on June 27, a Saturday, when the president’s top team was not around, to press Schroyer’s case.