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Senate confirms South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as Trump’s homeland security secretary

Senate confirms South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as Trump’s homeland security secretary

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The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary on Saturday, putting the South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and President Donald Trump’s plans to clamp down on illegal immigration. Republicans kept the Senate working Saturday to install the latest member of Trump’s national security team. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was confirmed in a dramatic tie-breaking vote Friday night, joining Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe. The Senate will next vote Monday evening on Scott Bessent’s confirmation as treasury secretary. Noem, a Trump ally who is in her second term as governor, received some support from Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee when it voted 13-2 to advance her nomination earlier in the week. Republicans, who already hold the votes necessary to confirm her, have also expressed confidence in her determination to lead border security and immigration enforcement. “Fixing this crisis and restoring respect for the rule of law is one of President Trump and Republicans’ top priorities,” …

FEMA, wildfires loom large in Noem hearing

FEMA, wildfires loom large in Noem hearing

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Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee pressed Kristi Noem, President-elect Trump’s nominee for secretary of Homeland Security, on whether she would apply conditions to or withhold disaster aid based on politics at her confirmation hearing Friday. If confirmed, Noem, the former governor of South Dakota, would take office as wildfires ravage California. Both Trump… Source link

Megyn Kelly slams Kristi Noem’s ‘lies’ following dog, North Korea fallout: ‘She’s been exposed’

Megyn Kelly slams Kristi Noem’s ‘lies’ following dog, North Korea fallout: ‘She’s been exposed’

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Megyn Kelly sharply criticized South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Wednesday for writing an inaccurate account of a supposed meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in her new book and for changing her story repeatedly amid the fallout from a separate passage that details Noem’s decision to shoot her dog. Noem has been repeatedly pressed about the book’s passage in which she describes meeting with the North Korean leader, but she has declined to say that the account is false —even though the passage has since been redacted. She has instead insisted that “I don’t talk about personal meetings with world leaders,” and that, “When this was brought to my attention, I immediately took actions and asked to have his name removed.” Noem repeated the same response when asked how she did not notice the error when recording the audio. In an interview on NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” Kelly responded to Noem’s positioning on the issue, saying, “She wrote it, read it, endorsed it and tried to sell it.” “She got caught because she didn’t think the …

Puppy Slayer Kristi Noem Had a Very, Very Bad Day on Conservative TV

Puppy Slayer Kristi Noem Had a Very, Very Bad Day on Conservative TV

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When the news first emerged that Kristi Noem had used her latest book to tell the grisly tale of killing her own dog, the South Dakota governor blamed the whole thing on the “fake news.” “You know how the fake news works,” Noem told Sean Hannity in an attempt at damage control. “They leave out some or most of the facts of a story, they put the worst spin on it. And that’s what’s happened in this case.” Later, after being pressed by CBS’s Margaret Brennan about the false story that she met North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, Noem whined on X: “In the fake news media, there are two sets of rules, and conservative are always treated differently. That’s why Americans don’t trust the Fake News.” This is, of course, a classic move for Republicans, perfected by Donald Trump, who has spent years claiming to be a victim of what he variously calls the “fake news,” the “radical left-wing media,” the “lamestream media,” and the “enemy of the people.” But unfortunately for Noem, …

Kristi Noem cuts off dogged Fox Business host: ‘Enough Stuart’

Kristi Noem cuts off dogged Fox Business host: ‘Enough Stuart’

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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) and Fox Business host Stuart Varney were speaking over one another during an interview Tuesday, during which the governor attempted to defend her decision to shoot her dog despite mounting criticism, which resulted in her telling him “enough.” Varney highlighted a major question for the governor by asking if she squashed her political chances of becoming former President Trump’s running mate by including the anecdote in her new memoir. “Well, I don’t think you have the facts straight,” Noem responded. “This was a vicious, dangerous dog, that was a working dog, and I had to make a choice between the safety of my children and an animal that was killing livestock and attacking people.” Noem doubled down on the decision to include the story in her book as Varney continued to hammer her about the dog story, saying it was a “very hard decision” and she shared it because “a lot of politicians run from the truth.” Noem dodged his question about still being Trump’s vice president despite the …

Kristi Noem doubles down on Puppygate — can MAGA’s endless trolling go any lower?

Kristi Noem doubles down on Puppygate — can MAGA’s endless trolling go any lower?

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By any normal political standards, the reaction that Kristi Noem, the MAGA-friendly governor of South Dakota, got to her recent revelation that she’d once shot a pet dog named Cricket was bad. It wasn’t just liberals who were horrified, either, but pretty much the entire political press and most Republicans. Even some of the nastiest trolls of the MAGA-sphere could not countenance her story, and at least one fundraiser meant to feature Noem was canceled. Any political expert would have advised Noem to take one of those long vacations that Fox News hosts indulge in whenever the on-air racism becomes too blatant. Instead, Noem just keeps on digging herself deeper. On the Sunday talk show “Face the Nation,” Noem was asked about another passage in her portentously titled book “No Going Back,” in which she “jokingly” threatens Joe Biden’s dog, Commander, writing, “Commander, say hello to Cricket for me.” Among many other things, this supposedly humorous remark undercuts Noem’s post-publication claims that she killed Cricket reluctantly, suggesting that she thought the whole thing was a big laugh. When pressed …

Kristi Noem Has Nothing on My New Autobiography

Kristi Noem Has Nothing on My New Autobiography

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“I’m not going to talk about my specific meetings with world leaders. I’m just not going to do that. This anecdote shouldn’t have been in the book and as soon as it was brought to my attention, I made sure that that was adjusted.”— South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, in response to questions about a meeting she claimed to have had with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un It has been brought to my attention that my memoir The Truth: My Life, How It Really Happened, and What It Means for America—for which I conducted more than 500 hours of interviews with myself—contains an anecdote in which the late Samuel Beckett mails me his Nobel Prize for Literature medal and insists, in a long and heartfelt letter, that I deserve it more than he does. This anecdote has been adjusted. It has been brought to my attention that my memoir Just the Facts: Everything I Ever Did and the Order I Did It In—for which I embedded with myself on a series of dangerous solo …

SNL ridicules Kristi Noem over dog-killing revelations

SNL ridicules Kristi Noem over dog-killing revelations

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The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Saturday Night Live poked fun at Kristi Noem’s revelation that she killed her dog Cricket, a detail included in her upcoming memoir that has illicited outrage from all sides of the political spectrum. The South Dakota governor, rumored to be in the running for Donald Trump’s vice president pick, revealed in her book No Going Back that she shot her “working dog” Cricket due to his poor behaviour. She also called the 14-month-old dog “untrainable” and “less than worthless”. On SNL’s Weekend Update segment this Saturday, Ms Noem’s “new dog” appeared to defend the governor. Cast member Marcello Hernández, dressed in a dog costume, introduced himself as “Cricket the Seventh”, telling host Colin Jost that “the first six were bad dogs… But you know what they say, lucky number seven, right?” Marcello Hernández playing Kristi Noem’s dog Cricket on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update with Colin Jost this weekend …

Have I got this right? Does Kristi Noem really want Joe Biden to start killing dogs too? | Zoe Williams

Have I got this right? Does Kristi Noem really want Joe Biden to start killing dogs too? | Zoe Williams

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When Kristi Noem, the South Dakota governor being vetted as a candidate for Donald Trump’s vice-president, admitted in her memoir to having shot and killed her 14-month-old puppy, I have to admit I thought it was a play. She was just testing the waters: how much could she insult human decency without making a dent in her numbers? As the battle rages on, I’m coming to accept that the benighted wire-haired pointer did, for a short time, exist, and was executed for a real crime: chicken killing. It seems a tiny bit unfair, given the two centuries of wire-haired pointer breeding that have gone into creating exactly this fixation with upland (which is to say, non-waterfowl) bird work. But that’s exactly what you’d expect a liberal to say. Next I’ll be on about the death penalty. Digging in, Noem has gone on to say that not only was she right to execute her pointer, but also that Joe Biden has been remiss in pardoning Major and Commander, both German shepherds inveterately hostile to secret service …

Kristi Noem claims liberal bias is why her interview on CBS went so poorly

Kristi Noem claims liberal bias is why her interview on CBS went so poorly

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When all else fails, blame the interviewer. Kristi Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota, is lashing out at Margaret Brennan, host of CBS’s Face the Nation, after a ruinous interview over the weekend. Before her appearance on the show Sunday, Noem said on X that she was excited to promote her new book, “No Going Back,” which she described as a “how-to guide for how Americans can help Make America Great Again!” But Noem seemed unprepared for any questions about the most newsworthy claims in that book: that she shot and killed her dog, for example. “I wonder if you have regrets about sharing this story?” Brennan asked. “This book is filled with vulnerable, painful moments in my life,” Noem explained. “The reason that this story is in the book is because people need to understand who I am. This was a dangerous animal that was killing livestock and attacking people.” Noem took to X again after the interview to complain about the interviewer. “This morning in our 15-minute interview, Margaret Brennan interrupted me …