Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was accused of “lying about her lies” on Monday morning as Donald Trump was warned that she has become a huge drag on his approval numbers.
Following a weekend where the embattled Noem hit the talk show circuit and insisted the shooting of 37-year-old Minnesota mother Renee Good by an ICE agent was completely justified, and that she personally has been correct on the details since day one, the co-hosts of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” claimed she has become a liability for the president.
After sharing clips of Noem’s notorious “cowboy hat” press conference and appearances on Fox News and CNN over the weekend, co-host Mika Brzezinski pointed out that she is sending even more agents into Minneapolis — which will only exacerbate the chaos.
That led co-host Joe Scarborough to offer, “You go back to her cowboy hat press conference, everything she said was a lie. Absolutely everything. And while we're looking at the head of DHS, a couple of things for President Trump to keep in mind while looking at the person who is running this agency into the ground and running his numbers down. On the issue of immigration approval of Kristi Noem, ICE itself, has plummeted 30 percentage points since she took control.”
After adding, “It's a YouGov poll and more than half of Americans, 54 percent, say ICE’s tactics are too extreme, and only about 25% support the tactics,“ he suggested, “How ironic that we see all of these fat, out of shape people that they push through. Right? And in how long, instead of five months, they have these shortened training sessions. So they go out there, and they're ill-equipped to handle what professional law enforcement officers, the NYPD or the LAPD or any of our law enforcement agencies are equipped to do.”
“And suddenly tragedy is unfolding on the streets, he pointed out. “But we all predicted this was going to happen. We all said, these guys are untrained, they're out of shape, they don't know the basics of law enforcement — tragedy is going to strike. And sure enough, it's striking. An ICE’s numbers are plummeting.”