As Kristi Noem terrorises those with darker skin under the guise of an illegal migrant crackdown, she is in no position to criticise the likes of China
Kristi Noem doesn’t strike people as a compassionate person. In fact, the US secretary of homeland security likes to portray herself as a hard-nosed leader, the kind who gets the job done, however unpleasant.
In her memoirs, she proudly recounts her now-infamous executions of Cricket, a 14-month-old wire-haired pointer for being naughty and “untrainable”, and Billy the goat, for being “disgusting, musky, rancid”, with a shotgun, one immediately after the other. She has applied the same ruthlessness to her job.
Noem loves posing with guns alongside her security agents, but is not good at shooting, even at point-blank range. As she admitted, the goat was merely wounded. She had to go back to her truck, retrieve another shell, then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down”.
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