00:00It sounds like an April Fool's joke. I assure you, it is not. Former Secretary of Homeland
00:05Security Kristi Noem is in the throes of a scandal. It appears her husband Brian lives
00:10a double life, one where he cross-dresses and chats online with fetish models. A representative
00:16for Noem told the Post, quote, the family was blindsided by this and they ask for privacy and
00:21prayers. The Daily Mail first reported Brian Noem was allegedly caught chatting up women that
00:25are part of a fetish scene called bimbofication, a term I was heretofore unfamiliar with. Basically,
00:32adult performers use massive amounts of saline to give their breasts a Barbie doll-like appearance.
00:38The outlet cited hundreds of messages. It says were sent by three women who are part of the scene
00:44saying that Noem's husband praised their heavily doctored look and proclaimed he liked, and I
00:50quote, huge, huge, ridiculous boobs. And that is not just the craziest part of this whole story.
00:57I'll let the Post's senior reporter Chris Neesey tell you just how into this fetish Brian Noem
01:02apparently got.
01:03Well, from the look of things, Brian Noem appears to have had few, if any, hang-ups about indulging
01:08in this niche fetish community. The Mail obtained hundreds of messages he allegedly exchanged with
01:14at least three women who he chatted and exchanged selfies with. Some of them, his face is fully
01:20visible, even though he was wearing pink hot pants and a flesh-colored crop top that he had stuffed with
01:26overinflated balloons to create the appearance of having comically oversized breasts. It's really
01:32pretty astonishing brazenness for someone married to a cabinet secretary. He also allegedly sent various
01:38women in the community quite a bit of money, some $25,000 in total. And he was apparently regularly
01:44asked to send them even more the entire time his wife was head of DHS. He seemingly made no efforts
01:51to hide his identity whatsoever. One of the women actually butt-dialed him at one point, and the
01:56voicemail led them to Noem Insurance, which is his South Dakota-based insurance company that uses his
02:02and his wife's name, their actual last name. And when she told him about it, he reportedly told her that
02:07he didn't care.
02:08President Trump was asked about the whole thing and said, quote,
02:11wow, well, I feel badly for the family if that's the case. That's too bad. Now, I'll link to the
02:17Post's article about this so you can see what Chris is talking about for yourself. Consider yourself
02:22warned. I also asked Chris about the possible security implications when a spouse of such a
02:27high-profile government official could be involved in this kind of thing.
02:31Obviously, leading this kind of double life might not be something your average person wants getting
02:36out there. And if the information or especially the pictures got in the wrong hands, it could have
02:41been used for blackmail purposes. The mail spoke to several national security experts who said this
02:47was an obvious potential threat and that if the media was able to dig it up, there's a good chance
02:52that a hostile foreign government's intelligence service could do the same. The possibility seemed to
02:57particularly alarm the experts considering that his wife was at the tip of the spear of the United
03:01States Homeland Security apparatus because obviously she was at the time privy to some highly sensitive
03:07information. For what it's worth, Christine Ohm has been demoted in a big way from DHS secretary.
03:13Part of the reason was the non-denial denial of her alleged affair with the right-hand man,
03:17Corey Lewandowski, before Congress. In light of this latest scandal, it just bears mentioning.
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