WASHINGTON — President Trump fired his Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem after her troubled 14 months in office. Noem’s tenure included Trump’s disastrous military-style occupation of Minnesota. Although devoted to Trum, Noem was mired in executing his flawed initiatives and bumbled with explanations and also bad judgment. Trump tried cushioning Noem’s ouster by appoinying her “special envoy for The Shield of the Americas” — an agency tjat nobody had ever heard of. Replacing Noem, at the Homeland Security Department will be U.S.  Senator Markwayne Mullin, anOklahoma Republican who has never vote against a single Trump initiative in Congress .

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