Trump's MAGA 'mean girls' plotting a midterm 'rampage'

Donald Trump has his own posse of "mean girls," and they have big plans for the midterms.

The Hill's Myra Adams on Friday broke down what she called Trump's group of MAGA "mean girls," four women in influential and highly visible positions within and adjacent to his administration. In addition to fueling his second-term ambitions, Adams warned that they are also plotting a "rampage" against the upcoming midterms.

Among this group are members of Trump's staff, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. The only non-appointee in the group, according to Adams, is far-right influencer Laura Loomer, who holds substantial sway over Trump despite not collecting a taxpayer-funded salary. Adams wrote that she first "zeroed in" on these women early on in Trump's second term, and as the months have gone by, their impact has "just kept getting worse."

Being the oldest among this group with the most high-profile jobs, Adams observed that Noem and Bondi are " role models," whose "unorthodox conduct is especially consequential and despicable." During her time in office, Bondi has demolished the wall of independence between the president and the Justice Department, effectively acting as Trump's own personal attorney. This was typified, Adams wrote, by a message to Bondi Trump shared on Truth Social last year explicitly ordering her to ramp up prosecutions against his perceived enemies.

Noem, meanwhile, has seemingly been competing with Bondi for generating "the most controversial headlines and cringeworthy videos for their presidential audience of one." In addition to her leadership making Trump's deportation agenda increasingly unpopular with voters, she has also become the subject of mockery for her tendency towards over-the-top outfits, which many critics have likened to costumes.

"Noem may never live down her infamous video from El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, where she posed before prisoners in a skin-tight top, form-fitting jeans, dazzling hair and a $50,000 Rolex," Adams wrote.

The youngest in the group, Leavitt's purpose within the administration has been to "intimidate anyone who dares contradict her version of the truth," with Adams suggesting that she would be more aptly known as the "White House director of propaganda."

"Laura Loomer’s job, so to speak, is to unearth disloyalty and report to Trump, her good friend," Adams wrote. "Those she targets are MAGA-marginalized or fired without recourse, regardless of rank or service to the nation. With her 'protect Trump at all costs' attitude, Loomer is a powerful force who regularly makes headlines. No one wants to be 'loomered.'"

Each of these women, Adams warned, is primed to play a major role in the White House's "rampage" against the midterm elections to prevent Democrats from taking power. Bondi is "intertwined" in Trump's efforts to delegitimize the results of the 2020 election, and could do much the same later this year.

"The midterms are coming, and Bondi knows that if Republicans lose control of either congressional chamber, there will be hell to pay," Adams wrote.

Noem has also recently been criticized for pledging efforts "to make sure that we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders..."