From Daily Mail: Kristi Noem’s most loyal aide has received no job offers from conservative media outlets including Fox News after leaving the Department of Homeland Security amid corruption allegations tied to a $220 million advertising campaign.
Tricia McLaughlin, the top DHS spokeswoman who departed shortly before Kristi Noem’s firing, has reached out to Fox about joining the network as a contributor, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The 31-year-old has also approached Newsmax and Real America’s Voice, though she has not received a formal offer from any of the networks.
McLaughlin departed DHS in February amid reports that her husband, Ben Yoho, benefited from a no-bid, taxpayer-funded contract to produce border control ads featuring Noem. Yoho’s Strategy Group was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars as a sub-contractor for the ad campaign, raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest.
“Fox is pretty picky, and they don’t like to deal with drama,” an insider told the Daily Mail.
McLaughlin was not pushed from her job, according to a senior White House official. They told the Daily Mail, “She told us she was planning to leave on her own and we were actually disappointed to hear that because she was great to work with, and she was a great advocate for the President on TV!”
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