Kristi Noem’s question-raising rob: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s $3k-filled bag stolen by an unlawful immigrant.
A query has gotten misplaced within the preoccupation with the truth that the purse snatcher who victimized Kristi Noem was an unlawful immigrant: Where was her security element (“Shoulda been bagged in NY,” April 29)?
Whether it was a Secret Service protecting element or brokers from Homeland Security, the very fact stays that an official on her degree is more at risk of somebody placing one thing in her purse versus stealing it. Can you think about the menace degree of a recorder in her personal property?
The irony of the background of the perpetrator is taking consideration away from this a lot more harmful state of affairs.
Lee Hoffman
Lakewood Ranch, Fla.
I assume once you’re Homeland Security Secretary, you don’t have to fret in regards to the trivial security ideas that another citizen would comply with — like at all times having your valuables in a secure place when out in public.
Thank goodness Kristi Noem had the complete energy of legal justice to look out for her and her Gucci bag. If I had one with $3,000 in it, I will surely sleep higher tonight.
Carol Puttre-Czyz
Manhattan
Homeland Security Secretary Noem is entrusted with guaranteeing the protection of 350 million Americans.
Yet even together with her taxpayer-funded security element, she will’t safeguard her own belongings that had been taken by a two-bit purse snatcher.
Do you all really feel safer but?
Vin Morabito
Scranton, Pa.
Let’s be sincere right here: Had it not been the purse of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, there may be no potential means your publication would have the thief on the entrance web page or a two-page unfold about it on the inside which overly highlights the unlawful standing of the thief.
Further, it’s pretty protected to say that law enforcement made it their prime precedence to seize the thief. Had it been anybody else, the police would’ve probably ignored it.
Michael Lefkowitz
East Meadow
Why haven’t any of the information studies about Kristi Noem’s stolen purse, money, checks, keys, passport , driver’s license and DHS badge, talked about the likelihood of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s categorised plans, which may have additionally been in her purse?
Richard Siegelman
Plainview
The Issue: Martin Gurri on President Trump and the “consequential dimension of his character.”
Bravo to Martin Gurri for his insightful piece on President Trump (“Unshakeable Don shakes fist at destiny,” May 1).
Perhaps the best, but understated, level Gurri made was that Trump is “one of a kind.”
The overwhelming majority of Americans haven’t realized the distinctive highway Trump took to achieve the White House — again.
He as soon as rose like a phoenix from the ashes to reclaim his coveted billionaire standing in what’s extensively described as the best comeback in US business historical past.
Then, after the hotly contested election in 2020, Trump left workplace in shame and entered the political “wilderness” solely to re-emerge.
Luana Dunn
Medford
Trump’s two-term presidency is a distinctive experiment of authorities as a result of the person himself is an idiosyncratic politician.
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His opposition is exclusive in our historical past with legacy media journalists whose hatred of him has led to suppressed falsehoods and the camouflaged senility of his predecessor.
Trump is a brave man whose perception in himself resurrected his presidential ambition by taking up political issues others shied away from.
Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati, Ohio
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