Disguise your canine, disguise your goats—Donald Trump is nominating violent and unhinged South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to move the Division of Homeland Safety, CNN reported.
As secretary, Noem would oversee the nation’s immigration and border enforcement and assist Trump perform his aim of mass deportations, that are anticipated to cripple the nation’s economic system and make immigrant households undergo.
The Division of Homeland Safety from Trump’s first time period in workplace is infamous for crafting and finishing up a “zero tolerance” border coverage whereby authorities officers separated 1000’s of youngsters from their dad and mom—a coverage that left kids traumatized.
Noem on the helm of Homeland Safety is a terrifying prospect. She has confirmed to don’t have any humanity after she gleefully bragged about killing her household’s pet in addition to a goat.
She claimed the canine—a 14-month-old wirehair pointer—had an “aggressive personality” as a result of it killed her neighbor’s chickens. That crime was sufficient for Noem to take the canine out to a gravel pit and shoot it useless, such a horrifying act of animal cruelty that even Fox Information couldn’t defend her.
In yet one more act of disturbing violence towards an animal, Noem additionally shot and killed her household’s goat as a result of it “loved to chase” her kids and smelled dangerous. As along with her household canine, Noem took that goat out to a gravel pit, tied it up, and shot it. When the primary shot didn’t kill it, she reloaded and shot it once more.
Except for being needlessly merciless, Noem can also be irresponsible and unethical.
Noem unethically gave her daughter preferential remedy to acquire an actual property appraiser’s license, in accordance to a report made by South Dakota’s Republican-led state legislature.
Noem additionally bizarrely makes use of her authorities social media accounts to hawk companies, together with a weird, practically five-minute-long video wherein she endorsed a Texas dental workplace. The video led a client advocacy group to file a criticism in opposition to Noem, alleging she violated the Washington, D.C., Client Safety Procedures Act as a result of she didn’t disclose whether or not she had a monetary relationship with the dentist workplace she was promoting for.
As for her degree of accountability, she wished to have a fireworks show at Mount Rushmore—one of many solely vacationer attracts to her state—for the Fourth of July in 2022, though it was a drought and the fireworks might have set off lethal and harmful wildfires.
She can also be banned from all 9 tribal reservations in her state, after she falsely accused the Native American leaders of profiting off of drug cartels.
Finally, Noem’s nomination is the newest proof that being a Trump sycophant is the highest qualification Trump is in search of as he makes choices for who will serve in his administration.
Like a few of Trump’s different picks, Noem has nearly no {qualifications} for the job. She doesn’t cope with border points or have a lot expertise with immigration points as governor of South Dakota, which is nowhere close to the U.S.-Mexico border.
However she has confirmed that she’ll go to nice lengths to suck as much as pricey chief Trump.
She appeared with him quite a few occasions through the 2024 marketing campaign, together with moderating the weird city corridor in Pennsylvania the place Trump answered nearly no questions and selected as a substitute to face on stage and awkwardly sway to his marketing campaign playlist for practically 40 minutes straight.