Ex-Aide: Trump told DHS secretary, 'Get your ass to the border' - POLITICO

President Donald Trump personally ordered his secretary of homeland security to head to the border at least half a dozen times, taking her away from her focus on pressing national security matters, according to her former chief of staff. Miles Taylor, who worked in the Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019, told POLITICO that Trump often ordered former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to leave her post in D.C. and head to the southwest border. ....
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/19/dhs-kirstjen-nielsen-trump-border-398416