President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not ask Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign after he was forced to reverse course on the aggressive, made-for-social-media immigration crackdown she engineered in Minnesota that has resulted in the deaths of two Americans at the hands of federal agents.
The president defended the former South Dakota governor while speaking to reporters Tuesday before departing the White House for a planned speech on the economy in Iowa. Asked whether he would press her to step down in the wake of two fatal shootings in less than a month — including Saturday’s killing of Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol agent — Trump simply replied: “No.”
