Good riddance to Kristi Noem — who thought – Latest News
Hooray to President Donald Trump for booting Kristi Noem from the Department of Homeland Security, a transfer that comes not a second too quickly.
She’d made all of it too clear that she noticed the job as being about serving herself and her image, not the president or the nation.
The remaining straw got here Wednesday, when she flagrantly prevented answering a pointed query about her intimate relations with prime subordinate Corey Lewandowski, a dodge clearly signaling an affair — at a listening to the place she’d conspicuously been joined by her husband of 34 years.
And this adopted her suggestion that Trump had signed off on awarding a week-old company owned by her associates with $143 million in no-bid contracts to make adverts selling . . . her.
Hearing her defend her starring function — as a cowgirl, no much less — within the DHS spots was dangerous enough, however then she mentioned she “didn’t know” something concerning the company in query earlier than attempting to disguise behind her boss: What a twit.
Our want to see her out was apparent after we cheered in January as Trump sidelined Noem from ICE operations in Minnesota, which she’d fumbled horribly.
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Not to disparage the arduous work of federal brokers on the ground, but it surely was apparent somebody had ordered these officers to be far too aggressive in pursuing arrests and handling hostile activists interfering with their work.
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As if that somebody thought Homeland Security was about . . . enjoying cowboy.
The escalating tensions yielded the taking pictures deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti; driving home Noem’s accountability for the mess was how rapidly the scenario calmed as soon as Border Czar Tom Homan took over.
But the injury was performed: Minneapolis fed the lefty line that Trump is waging a warfare on Latinos typically, risking GOP doom within the midterms.
Against that, Noem’s abusive angle towards employees and different questionable decisions might depend solely as distractions, however no Cabinet officers must be distracting from the president’s agenda.
Noem’s ouster is the primary actual second-term shakeup in Trump’s prime group, which has typically labored remarkably easily; we anticipate Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) will meet that normal when he takes over at DHS — placing his nation, not himself, first.
