“The United States Senate voted to confirm former President George W. Bush bureaucrat Kirstjen Nielsen to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) despite her ties to the “Never Trump” movement”
They didn’t confirm her DESPITE her Never Trump ties, they confirmed her BECAUSE of those ties.
I see on Twitchy that a CNN anal-ist is speculating from the writing style that Nielsen was the one who penned the “anonymous” anti-Trump editorial in the NYT’s a while back.
Seems possible