Kristi Noem used a live Newsmax interview in New York on 13 June to claim the US is working to deploy 'gang suppression forces' in Haiti, alarming viewers and reigniting criticism of the former Homeland Security Secretary's judgement and rhetoric.
The appearance marked Noem's return to TV nearly five months after her last broadcast, and just three months after Donald Trump removed her from his cabinet. She was pushed out of the administration in March following leadership failings, spending controversies and bruising congressional scrutiny over a $220 million taxpayer-funded border security ad blitz that put her, on horseback before Mount Rushmore, at the centre of a campaign meant to be about policy rather than personality.
