Also worth noting: her reported net worth went from under 1M to well over 20M while in office. The story is not a modest federal pension. It is how fast members can cash in on access, trades, and name recognition, then step out the door to monetize it even harder.

If you want receipts, this is coming from document-based investigations and contract data, not campaign spin: ProPublica, AP, Axios, contracting watchdogs, and now a formal request for an internal DHS investigation by members of Congress.

Every dollar spent on a self-serving ad campaign is a dollar not spent on things DHS is supposed to do: real border staffing, asylum processing, disaster response, cybersecurity. Corruption is not abstract. It quietly decides what does not get funded

This is not about liking or hating one party. It is about federal “emergency” powers being used to turn tax money into a private ad fund for political allies, with little transparency on where $143M actually went. That is textbook corruption risk.

The work was partly done by a GOP ad shop tied directly to Noem’s inner circle. Its CEO is married to her top DHS spokesperson, who also runs the office that oversees these contracts. Ethics experts are calling this setup “corrupt,” not just sloppy.

DHS used a border “national emergency” to bypass normal bidding and hand out a $220M ad contract. One firm, Safe America Media, was created days before and still got $143M of the pot despite almost no public track record.

I think about a quarter of his base is self hating for the same thoughts, so I really don't think this would hurt his chances. 1/4 like him better, 3/4 pretends it is not real.

Has worked well for him in the past.

An adult doing adult things is far down on the list of items to be offended by

Meed to get the message back to anyone who is filming vehicles, don,t bother grabbing plates because they are being swappes. Walk up to the vehicle and grab the vin off the front under the windshield. This will allow people to see where these vehicles are registered, and what departments are there

I don't think it went bad. I think it went exactly as planned for his photo op, including the murder of a supporter in the stands for sympathy.

Or he is one of the lizard people and his ear just grew back unscathed. ;)

Possibly.
Honestly, it was either a fake capsule, or he just nicked his ear on someones radio or pistol. Would love to have the original footage from the angle of my screen capture to do an honest analysis.