Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's bag, including $3,000 in cash, is stolen from DC restaurant
Source: CNN
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fell victim to a thief while eating dinner at a downtown Washington, DC, restaurant Sunday night, the secretary confirmed Monday.
Noem, who was asked about the theft at the White House Easter Egg Roll, acknowledged the incident and said the matter has not been resolved.
The Secret Service, which provides security for Noem, reviewed security camera footage at the restaurant and saw an unknown white male wearing a medical mask steal her bag and leave the restaurant, a law enforcement source said.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/politics/homeland-security-kristi-noem-purse-stolen/index.html

Ocelot II
(124,320 posts)Not that it's OK to steal anybody's purse, but why on earth did she have that much cash with her in the first place? And the purse contained her makeup bag as well, probably took up most of the space in the purse.
LoisB
(10,182 posts)Stryst
(719 posts)Drug dealers, gun runners, pimps...
Unless you are buying a used car, there's no good reason.
Everyone on Putins payroll. So most of Congress, Senate, and the whole fucking cabinet. Spare change. They need that much to tip the commoners that serve them. A very generous cult.
lonely bird
(2,265 posts)How much does Meth cost these days?🤪😁

RazorbackExpat
(469 posts)
Ponietz
(3,530 posts)Wonder Why
(5,530 posts)IronLionZion
(48,552 posts)and don't want a paper trail of bank records
sakabatou
(44,604 posts)ToxMarz
(2,363 posts)DetroitLegalBeagle
(2,348 posts)My wife and I have taken that much and more on trips to Las Vegas(prior to getting a casino host, now we wire some over). 10k in 100s is only about 1/2 inch thick surprisingly.
Day to day, I keep maybe 150-200. Which usually gets carried for months since I use my card for basically everything. I don't think my wife keeps cash on her at all now.
Ocelot II
(124,320 posts)Carrying large amounts of cash in your handbag and leaving it where it can be snatched by some rando is seriously stupid. Not to mention that the purse also contained her house key, her credit cards, her DHS badge and her passport.
Fucking perfect. This clown show.
delisen
(6,941 posts)My rich friends carry less cash than my poor friends.
RockCreek
(965 posts)And know what to do with it (them).
riversedge
(75,145 posts)Aristus
(69,710 posts)You should go back to Dakota, where they don't have crime.
Try not to kill any dogs on the way home...
Baitball Blogger
(49,850 posts)No Way Out. 🍿
riversedge
(75,145 posts)typical items if you were going to leave the country.
..........The thief got away with Noems drivers license, medication, apartment keys, passport, DHS access badge, makeup bag, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash.
Marthe48
(20,504 posts)from somewhere
Ponietz
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Fucking scum cant look in the mirror unless shes high.
wolfie001
(4,686 posts)
markodochartaigh
(2,695 posts)n/t
Midnight Writer
(23,735 posts)in a DC restaurant doesn't make me feel very secure.
wnylib
(25,238 posts)the person who is in charge of security for the US can't keep her purse secure in a restaurant.
angryxyouth
(215 posts)Im hoping that everyone of those f**kers get spit and feces in their food every time they eat out.
JoseBalow
(7,252 posts)I'm all thumbs today!
Jacson6
(1,153 posts)They must have a hard time recruiting competent people.
Vinca
(51,930 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(11,118 posts)SpankMe
(3,432 posts)wolfie001
(4,686 posts)At least por moi
Kid Berwyn
(20,047 posts)She probably could use a few tokes about now.
lark
(24,919 posts)
niyad
(123,320 posts)as it is currently presented??? puppykiller is at a restaurant with her (no doubt) VERY expensive purse, with her scurity team somewhere nearby (at least one would think so), and yet, some complete stranger, complete with mask, walks up, grabs her purse, and makes it out of the restaurant without getting apprehended??? I call BS.
My purse, which is NOT expensive, and does NOT contain 3k in cash, is never out of my sight. Depending on the setting, it is either beside me, or at my feet. I never hang my purse on the back of a chair.
bucolic_frolic
(49,927 posts)It could possibly have some trolling from the inside connotations.
Hekate
(97,318 posts)Given her stupidly extravagant wristwatch, her purse is probably the kind of thing women buy an extra airplane seat for so it wont get scuffed. Hermes?
And then theres the Secret Service detail.
drmeow
(5,552 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(2,838 posts)"The thousands of classified documents were in my purse that got stolen! Darn!"
Can you imagine if this had happened to a Democratic official?! The earth would stop rotating with the force of the faux outrage.
Walleye
(39,752 posts)PortTack
(35,572 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,785 posts)jayschool2013
(2,570 posts)I think her collagen dealer accepts only cash.
Diamond_Dog
(36,655 posts)
Deep State Witch
(11,742 posts)You can tell she's not from a city. Any woman who has spent any time in a big city knows to secure their purse when at a restaurant!
milestogo
(20,332 posts)sheshe2
(91,472 posts)The Head of the Department of Homeland Security can't even secure her own handbag!? And she is suppose to protect our homeland?! Is it bad of me to hope her 60K watch was in there too?
Traildogbob
(10,983 posts)Probably a gun in there.
IronLionZion
(48,552 posts)It's all super suspicious consider she has guns and security and it happened in front of lots of people.
Either way, I feel super safe in the US under her leadership.
NoRethugFriends
(3,284 posts)Upthevibe
(9,485 posts)OMG!!!!!!!!!!! The Irony!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why would she have $3,000 cash on her?
louis-t
(24,263 posts)And managed to steal her purse and get away?
Ocelot II
(124,320 posts)louis-t
(24,263 posts)Who else do they hate this week?
Traildogbob
(10,983 posts)And his coon hat? Or was it Boone? So can we get a meme of her with the gun pointed at ICE agent with her Dog Skin Hat?
No Golden retriever. Too hard to not mistake her for Rump, with that kind of hair and that much makeup.
Except she must be 65 tall compared to his 62 at a sleek 224 pounds.
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wolfie001
(4,686 posts)Ha ha, christo-fascist dog-killer.
EuterpeThelo
(19 posts)started a hilarious thread on guessing what else was in her purse. Her remark was "Gorilla Glue Eyelash Adhesive."
This was my contribution:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1358286625/donald-trump-butt-plug-desk-office
The replies had been comedy gold but, unfortunately, I just looked so I could import some of them here, but she seems to have deleted the thread.
So, what say you, DU? What else do you think the thieves might have made off with?
ck4829
(36,896 posts)hamsterjill
(15,764 posts)I mean, she has Secret Service agents protecting her? She's a gun nut herself?
Someone just walks in and casually steals her bag?
I'd be embarrassed to admit it.
tonekat
(2,204 posts)In DC restaurants?
Retrograde
(11,055 posts)by every Republican regime from Reagan onwards that the only people who carry that amount of cash are involved in drug deals, so this inquiring mind wants to know what she was doing with that much cash. And how can she control our borders if she can't control a simple thing like a purse.
Passages
(2,634 posts)Just like the rest of them, always looting.
3Hotdogs
(14,104 posts)W T F
(1,181 posts)thesquanderer
(12,575 posts)John1956PA
(3,966 posts)sdfernando
(5,679 posts)has failed to keep the homeland secure.
taxi
(2,160 posts)And the money? She wanted to place a $3,000 wag-er on a dog to show.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(121,904 posts)Is she trying to make a deal? That's what Bitcoin is for.
lanlady
(7,209 posts)The article didn't mention any being stolen. Maybe an oversight, or people just assume they must have been in her wallet with the cash.
To be generous, perhaps folks from N Dakota aren't used to life in a big city and do things that East/West Coasters wouldn't dream of doing like carrying around large amounts of cash?
I wonder if the thief knew who he was stealing from.
Dennis Donovan
(30,424 posts)@sarahposner.bsky.social
another unanswered question is how the Secret Service let someone get so close to Noem to steal the bag at her feet.
April 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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https://bsky.app/profile/sarahposner.bsky.social/post/3lnds6zudns2s
SWBTATTReg
(25,182 posts)of cash out of his pocket. Even my dad too, would flash it around. Me and my other half would tell my dad to put all of that cash away, don't flash it around. They grew up during the depression, didn't seem to believe in banks.
MorbidButterflyTat
(2,838 posts)
Scalded Nun
(1,385 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,534 posts)"Oh, and because it was Easter, I was carrying my Faberge egg with me, too."
CincyDem
(7,080 posts)
you better have a bank withdrawal receipt time stamped in the last 10 minutes to get an insurance company to cover lost cash. Shed have a lot more grifting luck claiming that watch was in there
And the guy who did it, Im sure he had no idea what kind of haul he was going to get. Its a cheap n cheesy burgers and bar food place with faux wood plastic chairs and red lobster like booths. Id guess is during any given lunch, you could rob everyone in the place and not come up with 3k.
So
in my best Gomer Pyle voice
surprise, surprise.
MurrayDelph
(5,534 posts)her office's supply of petty cash.
Walleye
(39,752 posts)Unless she just very stupidly flashed that cash in public. Also, I wonder how much she paid for her handbag
MorbidButterflyTat
(2,838 posts)In the restroom with one of the Secret Service guys? Hm?
Karasu
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