The Keith Edwards Show - BREAKING: Kristi Noem FIRED

Episode Date: March 5, 2026

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It is a good day in America. Why is it a good day in America? Because Republicans are in complete disarray. Not only are they going to a run off in Texas where Donald Trump is about to make some people very upset. We are also learning that Christy Noem, who was very much so assaulted with questions yesterday from Congress about her role at DHS, not only from Democrats, but from Republicans, says Donald Trump asking himself, should she get fired? And I've got reporting on that for you. Well, let's go to this Texas stuff real fast because Donald Trump is expected to endorse someone who is not very MAGA, John Cornyn, because he actually has to try to win this election because we are getting very close to potentially flipping the Senate. And when asked about this, Cornyn said to Punchball News, it saves everybody a lot of money. And if the president can weigh in, it would make it enormously helpful. Well, Donald Trump actually said this yesterday on his blog, True Social.

He said the Republican primary race for the United States Senate in the great state of Texas, a state I love and won three times in record numbers. The highest vote ever recorded by far cannot for the governor of the party and our country itself be allowed to go on it any longer. It must stop now. We have an easy to beat radical left opponent and we have to totally focus on putting him away quickly and decisively. Both John and Ken are great races, but not good enough.

Now this one must be perfect. My endorsements within the Republican Party have been virtually insurmountable. It is such an honor to realize and say that almost everyone I endorse wins and wins by a lot, especially in Texas. I will be making my endorsement soon and we'll be asking the candidate that I don't endorse to immediately drop out of the race. Is that fair? We must win in November.

All right. Well, we are now learning that the person who Trump is likely to endorse is John Cornyn. But one problem, Ken Paxton doesn't want to go quietly. And here he is saying that earlier today. What do you make of that? What message does that send? And what message do you want to send to the Republican Bay State? President Trump said he's going to make an endorsement.

Whoever he does endorse, you drop out. I have a funny feeling you don't drop out under any circumstance. No, I understand this race. I owe it to the people of Texas. I've spent a year of my life campaigning against John Cornyn because John has not represented the people of Texas. Well, he sided with Joe Biden on the second amendment restriction. He decided with Joe Biden. I'm bringing Afghan refugees to settle here without vetting him.

But he's been against Trump in both of his elections, said he shouldn't run last time. His day had passed. And, of course, he fought him on the border wall. He's been an amnesty guy. Everything that Trump stood for, John Corny's fought. But he wasn't being helped to Joe Biden. The people of Texas, at least the Republicans would like something different.

So if this happens, that'll be great, because that's been three minutes, three months, three months of Republican fighting. And that only helps us really start to make the case against Republicans in Texas. Also, it makes them weaker candidates because if they're tearing each other down, they're not able to raise money to fight James Talarico. And it really just gives us a long runway. I love it. I love it.

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In response to this, Donald Trump said that his endorsement will be made. pretty soon and he said of Paxton not dropping out. He said, well, that's bad for him to say. That is bad for him. So maybe that leads me to go the other direction. So we will see. We will see. And just as a reminder, Paxton is a wife sheet or a fraud. So sounds very maggot to me. I don't know why he wouldn't be endorsed by Trump. Keith's editor here, just before publish, Ken Paxton released this statement saying, he'd drop out if the GOP agreed to get rid of the filibuster and pass the Save America Act.

I would consider dropping out of this race if Senate leadership agrees to lift the filibuster and passes the Save America Act. For the good of our country and for the good of passing President Trump's agenda, I am determined to help him get this. And we are learning right now that Donald Trump literally moments ago

just fired Christy Knoem. She is gone. And Chrissy Nome is gone and we know exactly why it happened. And it's not because people died. It's not because folks are getting executed in the streets. It's not because we were building concentration camps in this country. No, it's for a much stupider reason, but a very Trumpian one. And as I said, Christy Nome is being fired or has been fired.

She is gone. Trump fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary, Christy Noem on Thursday and announced plans to replace her with Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma after she was grilled by Republican lawmakers this week at a congressional hearing on a variety of topics, including her knowledge of a lucrative advertising contract. Mr. Trump announced the change on social media, along with a new and previously non-existent role for Ms. Noam, special envoy for the shield of the Americas, which he said would be a new security initiative for the Western Hemisphere. Okay. Mr. Trump is close to Mr. and a Republican and speaks with him regularly.

Ms. Noam, the first cabinet member, to be ousted, and Trump's second term had been among the key figures in the administration fulfilling his mass deportation effort. Now, as I said, the reason why this happened is because Christy Noem decided to lie, or perhaps not lie, but blamed Donald Trump about the $220 million advertising campaign that she launched, that featured her massively. And apparently Donald Trump didn't like that because he told Reuters earlier today that he didn't know anything about it. And I guess that is a reason why we now have the first firing in Donald Trump's second administration because Christy Noem lied about an advertising campaign. It's not because someone got shot in the street.

It's not because of the illegal deportation practices. It's not because we've been rounding up Americans saying they're not American. Americans, it's because Donald Trump didn't like what she had to say about an advertising campaign. It's ridiculous. Says here in Punchball News, President Donald Trump has been surveying Hill Republicans and whether he should fire Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristiannome, according to multiple Republicans who have spoken with the president. And even Speaker Mike Johnson speculated about the potential for change at the top of DHS during a recent House Republican elected. leadership retreat in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Trump dialed up some GOP senators after Noem testified in front of the Senate and House judiciary panels on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.

Those appearances were marked by extraordinarily bitter exchanges, one of which I showed you here yesterday, between Noam and Democratic lawmakers, especially over Trump's harsh immigration crackdown. But Trump was said to be especially upset about responses where Senator John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana Pressure Tuesday, but a government-funded campaign that Kennedy said only served to boost her personal name recognition nationally. Here is that exchange that apparently sent Trump over the edge.

Square that concern for waste, which I share. With the fact that you have spent $220 million running television advertisements that feature you prominently? Sir, the president tasked me with getting the message out to the country and to other countries where we were seeing the invasion come from with putting commercials out that told them that if they were in this country illegally, that they needed to leave, or we would detain them and remove them and they'd not get the chance to come back to America the right way.

That has been extremely effective. you to run these advertisements. Is that right? We had that conversation, yes, before I was put in this position and sworn in and confirmed and since then as well. Okay. Did you bid out those service contracts? Yes, they did. They went out to a competitive bid, and career officials at the department chose who would do those advertising commercials. And the people that you ended up picking

were people who had formerly done your political work back in South Dakota. Is that right? No, that's not correct, sir. I think it is. No, it's not, sir. The individuals who, I believe the careers who they chose were two different media firms. There's been conversation about their subcontractors, but we have no legal authority to look into subcontractors on work like that. Okay.

And you're saying that you're testifying that President Trump approved this ahead of time. Something I understand. We had conversations about making sure that we were telling people. No, ma'am. I'm asking you. Sorry to interrupt. But the president approved ahead of time. You're spending $220 million running TV ads across the country in which you are featured prominently.

Yes, sir. We went through the legal process. Did the president know you're going to do this? Yes. He did. Yes. Okay. Well, turns out whether, I don't know what that's true or not, but it is that moment

that sent Trump over the edge. The $220 million contract for the ad campaign was awarded to an LLC which subcontracted with the company run by the husband of former DHS spokesperson Trishon McClockland. The ads were filmed in October at Mount Rushmore, Ben Yoho McLaughlin's husband said he made $230,000 from that one job. But Punchbowl News asks here, can she be replaced? Perhaps. Perhaps. She might get fired, but can she be replaced? They're worried about whether Senate GOP leaders could find 51 votes for a placement in the face of universal democratic opposition combined with vulnerable Republicans who may want to flash some independence. Trump's harsh immigration crackdown at ISIS

operations would be at the center of those confirmation hearings. Other Republicans have warned that Trump would be, it would be a bad idea to fire Nome in the middle of the now 19-day DHS shutdown arguing would embolden Democrats and strengthen their negotiation position as the demand and ice overhaul. And of course, the White House didn't say shit about this. It's a goddamn word. And the DHS spokesperson said, the domestic ad campaign has been the most successful ad campaign in U.S. history. The ad campaigns need the U.S. US tax taxpayers over 39 billion. What?

What? Save taxpayers, $39 billion. How does an ad, a TV ad, save taxpayers, $39 billion. That makes absolutely no sense. All right, well, listen, good. Fight amongst yourselves, bitches. Can't stand that woman.

God damn it. I don't know if we're ever going to get Trump, okay? I don't know if we're ever going to get Trump. But all his little goons, we're going to get him. We're going to get them immediately when we get power, and she knows it. And now she's realizing that Trump don't have her back. They never has your back. He sees you as a means to an end.

He will eat you up and spit you out the second you are no longer useful. Makes me happy. Makes me happy. I hope you have a great day. Bye-bye.