{"id":179351,"date":"2026-02-13T12:51:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=179351"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:51:46","slug":"the-hillary-clinton-award-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=179351","title":{"rendered":"The Hillary Clinton Award Goes To&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-179352 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/USAFVIPFleetReplacement_1.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/USAFVIPFleetReplacement_1.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/USAFVIPFleetReplacement_1.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/USAFVIPFleetReplacement_1.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/USAFVIPFleetReplacement_1.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/USAFVIPFleetReplacement_1.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Fly the Friendly Skies<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Corey Lewandowski fired pilot for leaving Kristi Noem\u2019s blanket on plane as sources say pair \u2018spending nights regularly\u2019 together<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Steven Nelson<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Corey Lewandowski fired a Coast Guard pilot for leaving Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem\u2019s blanket on a plane \u2014 but was forced to rehire them upon realizing there was nobody else to fly the party home, according to a stunning new report.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski, an unpaid special government employee who unofficially acts as chief of staff for Noem \u2014 with whom he\u2019s had a years-long affair \u2014 has overseen a reign of terror over department workers since President Trump took office last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Wall Street Journal, Noem had to switch planes during an official trip due to a maintenance issue, but her blanket was not moved to the replacement aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski fired the pilot and told them to find a commercial flight home when they reached their destination, only to reinstate them due to the lack of a backup.<\/p>\n<p>The report did not specify when or where the incident occurred.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/13\/us-news\/corey-lewandowski-fired-coast-guard-pilot-for-leaving-kristi-noems-blanket-on-plane\/\">New York Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For an unpaid lacky Lewandowski got a bit over his skis here, no doubt basking in the reflected glory of Secretary Noem. He also looked like an idiot. Stories like this travel fast and far in the military aviation community, and we don&#8217;t forget. The horror stories of Hillary and the Presidential Helo were epic, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a Usual Suspect for the head&#8217;s up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fly the Friendly Skies Corey Lewandowski fired pilot for leaving Kristi Noem\u2019s blanket on plane as sources say pair \u2018spending nights regularly\u2019 together By Steven Nelson WASHINGTON \u2014 Corey Lewandowski fired a Coast Guard pilot for leaving Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem\u2019s blanket on a plane \u2014 but was forced to rehire them upon realizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":179352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,225,195,406,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-blue-falcons","category-coast-guard","category-guest-link","category-usual-suspects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/USAFVIPFleetReplacement_1.jpg?fit=2000%2C1125&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-KEL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/179352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}