A Payment For Fundraising

"We're gonna actually go after them and prosecute them with the partnership of Pam if we can" -- Kristi Noem says "we're working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute" CNN for allegedly promoting the ICEBlock app pic.twitter.com/tQQtm6Qpty

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 1, 2025

What crime? 

Trump in front of the migrant cages at DeSantis's camp: "Biden wanted me in here, that son of a bitch." pic.twitter.com/CwCAEN57PM

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 1, 2025

He’s already planning the cages for CNN. The Roberts Court has already emailed their approval.

Kristi Noem: "President Trump is upholding freedom by what he is doing ... I'm calling out you, CNN. I'm calling you out because you lie every single day about what these operations are." pic.twitter.com/8ko3UFzZPo

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 1, 2025

I’d have thought she’d rather take on ProPublica.

In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show.

In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement, the nonprofit routed funds to a personal company of Noem’s that had recently been established in Delaware. The payment totaled $80,000 that year, a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 government salary. Since the nonprofit is a so-called dark money group — one that’s not required to disclose the names of its donors — the original source of the money remains unknown.

Noem then failed to disclose the $80,000 payment to the public. After President Donald Trump selected Noem to be his secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, she had to release a detailed accounting of her assets and sources of income from 2023 on. She did not include the income from the dark money group on her disclosure form, which experts called a likely violation of federal ethics requirements.

Experts told ProPublica it was troubling that Noem was personally taking money that came from political donors. In a filing, the group, a nonprofit called American Resolve Policy Fund, described the $80,000 as a payment for fundraising. The organization said Noem had brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars.