NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — The Department of Homeland Security has budgeted up to $200 million to run anti-immigrant ads in the United States and overseas that repeatedly thank President Donald Trump for leading an immigration crackdown. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Friday night that these ads were Trump’s idea, …
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s administration has been firing federal workers en masse, pausing and shuttering whole federal agencies, and furiously hunting for examples of waste, fraud, and abuse that they can show their supporters to prove all the destruction is necessary and good. At the same time, Trump’s Department …
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Confirmation hearings for a slew of Donald Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and other high-ranking positions are scheduled to begin this week. Senate committees still have not received vetting materials for several nominees, and many of their financial disclosures and ethics disclosures have not yet been made public. On Monday, …
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Within Donald Trump’s government-in-waiting, there is a fresh debate over whether and how thoroughly the president-elect should follow through on his campaign promise to attack or even invade Mexico, as part of the “war” he’s pledged to wage against powerful drug cartels. “How much should we invade Mexico?” says a …
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The season 49 finale of Saturday Night Live opened with Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) making an assessment of his potential running mates, who ranged from the boot-licking to the face-eating. Among those who showed face were South Carolina Senator Tim Scott (Devon Walker) and embattled South Dakota Gov. Kristi …
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The publisher behind Kristi Noem’s new political memoir, No Going Back, may be wishing they could take it all back. On Monday, Noem again ducked questions about her claims of meeting North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, once again refusing to discuss her interactions with world leaders when questioned by …
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Saturday Night Live host and musical guest Dua Lipa, whose brand new album, Radical Optimism, was released Friday, was at a loss for how South Dakota’s Republican governor, Kristi Noem, could salvage her reputation as a puppy and goat killer. In her monologue, Lipa explained that the title of her …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update addressed Donald Trump‘s courtroom appearances during his criminal trial in New York, as well as Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem‘s admission in her forthcoming memoir that she shot and killed her puppy. Co-anchor Michael Che recalled how Trump had “complained that none of his …
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After shooting her own dog, Kristi Noem now seems to be gunning for Joe Biden‘s pooch, Commander. In a trainwreck of an interview, Noem defended a passage where she seems to suggest Commander should be shot. She also defended her decision to remove a part of the book where she …
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Kristi Noem has repeatedly affirmed that yes, she actually did murder her 14-month-old dog — but that doesn’t mean the South Dakota governor’s upcoming memoir, No Going Back, isn’t full of easily disprovable lies. According to The Dakota Scout, which obtained a copy of the book, Noem claims that as …
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