Nielsen Allies Trying to Rehab Her Image

“Kirstjen Nielsen’s image makeover has already begun—but it may be a hard sell,” Politico reports.

“Just days after she announced plans to resign as Homeland Security secretary, Nielsen and her allies are working to rehabilitate her reputation, arguing that she’s not the heartless villain depicted by liberal critics already pressuring big companies not to hire her.”

“Almost as soon as word of her resignation under pressure leaked, Nielsen’s allies began spinning a narrative of her tenure that casts her not as an enabler of President Trump’s most controversial immigration policies, but as a guardrail against even more extreme action.”