PieFedFirm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-c…
On Oct. 2, the second day of the government shutdown, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrived at Mount Rushmore to shoot a television ad. Sitting on horseback in chaps and a cowboy hat, Noem addressed the camera with a stern message for immigrants: “Break our laws, we’ll punish you.”
Noem has hailed the more than $200 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign as a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration. Her agency invoked the “national emergency” at the border as it awarded contracts for the campaign, bypassing the normal competitive bidding process designed to prevent waste and corruption.
The Department of Homeland Security has kept at least one beneficiary of the nine-figure ad deal a secret, records and interviews show: a Republican consulting firm with long-standing personal and business ties to Noem and her senior aides at DHS. The company running the Mount Rushmore shoot, called the Strategy Group, does not appear on public documents about the contract. The main recipient listed on the contracts is a mysterious Delaware company, which was created days before the deal was finalized.
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Look at how fucking stupid she looks.
It’s crazy that the legacy she wants is “subhuman plastic lady on a horse that is standing in front of an offensive mountain statue.”
No shame, the bar for integrity no longer exists to these people.
This is a large part of why Republicans love “privatizing” government services - so they can then collect bribes and kickbacks from the often nepotistic contractors who get the no-bid contracts.
And as always, the Trump regime does it more and bigger than anyone ever.
etherphon$220 million for those ads are you fucking serious? Every day it’s more totally wasteful spending to line the pockets of these assholes.
This is the most corrupt, and most brazen, presidential administration in US history.
Corrupt, brazen, and sooooo fucking ridiculous. I mean look at this picture, come the fuck on!!! 🤣
Kristi Noem never outgrew being a 13 year old rodeo queen, so this was like a dream come true for her.
And if she can make millons off of it by abusing the national emergency declaration to award a no-bid contract to a business connected to her and her staff, all the better.
I didn’t know that about her.
I just keep seeing a bizarre mashup of a throw back to Wilfrid brimley and the itysl sketch about horses that are bred so they don’t make a man feel self conscious
Nothing in that photo looks real. The backround looks like a greenscreen, the horse looks like a prop and she somehow looks AI generated
Ha ha ha ha she looks like she’s never interacted with an animal before
Oh she has but she used to killing them for stupid reasons then bragging about it.
Hard to believe she didn’t photoshop Trump’s face on the mountain
Been there, done that.
The only reason to wear chaps on a sunny day when you aren’t driving cattle is to show everyone that you are wearing chaps. She looks like a fucking idiot.
The USA should investigate every single member of this administration for fiscal crimes.