Kristi Noem’s Trump loyalty rewarded with top Homeland Security job

Now SoDak’s capital, Pierre, is approximately 1,100 miles from the Mexican border and about 589 miles from America’s best border crossing—Minnesota’s northwest angle. But what Noem lacks in qualifications, she more than makes up for in a hesitant, unquestioning, uncritical capitulation to Trump’s every whim. And Homeland Security will be the agency tasked with carrying out the mass deportations Trump promised on the campaign trail.

The pesky idea that random rich guys could move US troops around like pawns on a chessboard if they threw enough money at a politician led Congress to ban the use of private funds for interstate patrol deployments. A law that did not need to exist before Noah came.

Her attempt to cover up that fact she rented out 48 National Guard troops to a billionaire’s pet project cost South Dakota $42,000 to settle a lawsuit with the watchdog group that blew the whistle. The funds covered the legal costs of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington after the South Dakota National Guard stonewalled their request for public records of the stunt deployment. Those records also showed that even after the billionaire chipped in, South Dakota taxpayers had to pay an additional $500,000 for the deployment.

For five years, Kristi Noem put Donald Trump’s wishes above the needs of her own state. This is her reward.