NOEM: ‘I’VE BEEN DEALING WITH … A BUNCH OF PANSIES’: The dueling realities of the Trump administration and state and local officials about crime in blue states were on vivid display Tuesday, as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited “war-ravaged” Portland, while Attorney General Pam Bondi rebuked Democratic senators in congressional testimony over the murder rate in Chicago.

Noem arrived in Portland to oversee illegal immigration enforcement operations and was seen in social media posts peering down from the rooftop of an ICE facility at a small group of protesters, including a man in a chicken suit. “Our goal is that people would peacefully protest, but that we would still be able to enforce the law.”