Wall Street Journal reports Kristi Noem arranged purchase to expand deportation flights and for personal travel

The secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kristi Noem, reportedly authorized the purchase of Spirit Airlines jets before discovering the airline didn’t actually own the planes – and that the aircraft lacked engines.

The bizarre anecdote was contained in a Wall Street Journal report released on Friday, which recounted how Noem and Corey Lewandowski – who managed Donald Trump’s first winning presidential campaign – had recently arranged to buy 10 Boeing 737 aircraft from Spirit Airlines. People familiar with the situation told the paper that the two intended to use the jets to expand deportation flights – and for personal travel.

Those sources also claimed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials had cautioned them that buying planes would be far more expensive than simply expanding existing flight contracts.

  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    If I made a list of the members in this administration that I’d like to watch defend themselves in a trial, obviously Trump would be at the top of the list but Kristi is a solid, though somewhat distant, second. I just want to see those vapid tapped out bimbo lips flapping around “but I was just doing my job flappity flap flap”.

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          Guys, I dunno if you know this, but we could probably have multiple trials simultaneously and speed this all along.

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            Didn’t y’all invent that thing called RICO, where you can try many people all at once if they’re working under the same banner? MAGA is a criminal organisation, they’re all under the same banner.

            It sounds illiberal as fuck, but do the fascists deserve liberty when their whole shtick is the denial of liberty?

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      It overlaps heavily with my list of members in this administration I’d like to watch defend themselves in Colosseum-style mortal combat.

      Krusty Gnome versus hungry lions. Steven Miller trying to escape a maze filled with alligators. Donald Trump versus lifting a glass of water without stroking out

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        I was just writing about Billionaire Brawl elsewhere. Glad to see more people thinking about this sort of concept.

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        I feel you but… it’s too quick. Maybe we could do a trial where they just get drilled by smart people for several weeks about every single shitty thing they did, then the sentence could be death by mortal combat.