YahooNews also carried the item: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/noem-says-everything-ve-done-225051871.html
Apparently Axios may have initially reported this item, Mediaite stating:
“Everything I’ve done, I’ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen,” Noem reportedly said to someone who relayed her comment to Axios.
The report from Axios suggests there was a great amount of confusion surrounding Pretti’s death in the White House. Officials told the outlet that Border Patrol officers told the White House that Pretti brandished a gun before being shot, but this claim is contradicted by video evidence. Some White House officials reportedly took issue with the official statement going out, as they were not briefed on all of the details surrounding the shooting before it was published.
“Others within the White House attempted to clean up the DHS statement prior to it being sent, but it had already been disseminated,” a source familiar with the situation told Axios.
The suggestion is not intential lying from headquarters, but from the field and not checked out sufficiently by headquarters before headquaters issued its statement.
In effect, total lack of professionalism claimed, but not Noem, herself, inte______
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More detail from IBT, referencing Axios as breaking the story, IBT publishing:
Kristi Noem, the embattled Homeland Security Secretary, has reportedly broken ranks with the White House, privately admitting that 'everything I've done' in office was directed by President Donald Trump and senior adviser Stephen Miller.
According to a bombshell report from Axios on 28 January 2026, Noem's admission comes as she faces an unprecedented impeachment push following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis.
By shifting accountability to Miller, the unelected architect of the administration's hardline immigration surge, and the President himself, Noem appears to be distancing herself from the legal and political fallout of Operation Metro Surge.
With over 140 House Democrats now co-sponsoring articles of impeachment and GOP senators joining the chorus for her resignation, the internal rift signals a major fracture in the administration's handling of federal law enforcement authority.
With public trust fraying and investigations widening, Noem's remarks are being interpreted less as loyalty and more as self-preservation. If accurate, they point to an unusually centralised chain of command at the heart of US immigration enforcement, one that now threatens to pull the White House directly into the legal and political fallout.
Noem's Admission Deepens White House Fallout
Noem's admission, as reported by Axios, that 'everything I've done' was at the direction of Trump and Miller suggests an unprecedented degree of reliance on the president and his senior adviser.
Miller, who serves as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Adviser, is widely viewed as the main architect of the hardline immigration policies, despite not being a Senate-confirmed official.
The admission appears to underscore the internal pressure Noem faces as political backlash mounts over the administration's handling of federal immigration operations in Minneapolis, where Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents shot and killed Alex Pretti during an enforcement operation.
The Axios item is subscription-walled, but before the wall Axios states:
White House officials are blaming Customs and Border Patrol for furnishing inaccurate information, while others are targeting Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff and top Trump adviser, six sources with knowledge of the situation told Axios.
That's bullshit. The little munchkins did it is no excuse for Miller pushing shit out the door to lay down the spore of falsehood, and Miller's head should roll [figuratively]. Fire them all, and JD has the 25th Amendment, but short of that fire Miller for certain since he's such a mean and ugly little bitch.
Anyway, hate those walls. Axios used to be a good source before walling off.
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RawStory is rattling the Epstein files again at Trump. You cannot be the Teflon Don, if the dead Epstein trafficker keeps sticking. We're still waiting . . .
Bondi could bond to JD and the others to throw Trump under the bus. They need to go to Oz to find courage, and a brain, but it will come. It was Toto who pulled back the curtain, in this case, Elon. His tweeting of Trump in Epstein files smouldered, not big flames all the time, but the fire seems to not go out.