Kristi Noem Says Trump Is “Upholding Freedom” by Deporting Cannibals
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is probably best known for the story she told in her memoir about shooting her family’s dog. But shooting dogs is not all she is about. She contains multitudes, okay? For instance, today she shared a story about ICE detaining an alleged cannibal and said cannibal allegedly trying to “eat himself.”
Speaking at a press conference in Florida with Donald Trump, Noem claimed that the president’s deportation push, which she is overseeing, is about “upholding freedom…the freedom to live safely in this country and to do things legally and to have justice.” The administration, she said, is “going after murderers and rapists and traffickers and drug dealers and getting them off the streets and getting them out of this country, because Joe Biden let the worst of the worst come in here.” You may have heard that, according to CBS News, the arrests of immigrants without criminal histories have spiked, and only about 8% of detainees have been convicted of violent crimes—but that’s not what Noem wanted to talk about.
“The other day,” she told reporters, “I was talking to some marshals that had been partnering with ICE. They said that they had detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home. And while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself, and they had to get him off and get him medical attention. These are the kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in America, that we’re trying to target and get out of our country because they are so deranged they don’t belong here.”
Speaking of cannibals, Trump brought up Hannibal Lecter again last week, reminding people that while campaigning for president, he talked a lot about the Silence of the Lambs character. As he was bragging about the “record number” of deportations his administration has carried out, he declared: “We’re bringing criminals out by the thousands—nobody can even imagine. They let people in that were murderers—11,888 murderers, gang members, people from mental institutions and insane asylums. You know what that is? Insane asylum? That’s a mental institution on steroids. During the campaign, I’d talk about the late, great Hannibal Lecter. Do you know who that is? Hannibal Lecter? Silence of the Lambs.”
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