Corey Lewandowski to 'leave with' Kristi Noem amid affair rumors: report

Special government employee Corey Lewandowski is expected to leave the Department of Homeland Security when Secretary Kristi Noem departs later this month.

Sources told Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich that Lewandowski's departure became evident soon after President Donald Trump said he was firing Noem.

"I'm told the president spoke with Kristy Noem just before that Truth Social post went out," Heinrich reported on Thursday afternoon. "I'm further told that Corey Lewandowski is expected to leave with her. Of course, the rumors of an affair between the two were one of the factors that I'm told compelled the president to remove her as DHS secretary. Both of them are married, and she had faced questions about her alleged affair during testimony on the Hill this week under oath, she did not deny it as she called the reports garbage, but she never denied sexual relations with Cory Lewandowski."

"And I'm told that he's expected to leave his post as a special government employee and advisor to her when she departs the Department of Homeland Security," she added. "Unclear so far, I'm trying to still get information on whether 'leave with her' means go with her to this new role that we are still fleshing out what exactly that entails."

"But the president was unhappy, I'm told, with, quote, 'many of her unfortunate leadership failures,' which included Minnesota, her public statements in the fallout to that deportation campaign there, also the ad campaign, the $200 million in spending, and these rumors of an affair [with] Corey Lewandowski."