Transcript: Trump Erupts at GOPers over Noem as Support for Her Slips

Heffernan: Yeah, I’m glad we’re aligned on this because there is a numbers game that you see in fascism generally, which is, like, it’s clicking through his brain, you know: what the population is, how many white people there are, what the replacement numbers are, all that eugenics stuff. And that’s how you get to numbers and not people.

What’s amazing to me—and Greg, I don’t know if you are equally shocked—I actually thought that they could busy themselves for six months, a year, 18 months, by finding actual people who had committed crimes: child abuse, like those kinds of things, like actual just crimes, right? Maybe not murder, but crimes who are also undocumented. I know that the administration has trouble finding people when it’s tried to single out people, but if they had ICE, all the surveillance of Palantir, I was sure they would find a lot of them. And they promised they would find a lot of them.

Sargent: Maybe Miller really is incompetent. Maybe that’s the story that everyone’s missing. So a few other quick things here showing that Noem is on shaky ground: DHS put out an initial review of the shooting of Pretti that didn’t mention any gun or any intention to “massacre law enforcement,” as Noem had claimed.