The Latest Noem Scandal Raises Questions About Vetting and Potential National Security Vulnerabilities

Red State ^ | 03/31/2026 | Jennifer Oliver O' Connell

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The Daily Mail UK has exclusively reported about a new scandal surrounding former Department of Homeland Security Secretary and current Special Envoy to the Shields of America Kristi Noem. However, the focal point of this report is not Noem herself, but her long-suffering husband, businessman Bryon Noem. 

"Kristi Noem's husband is today revealed as a secret crossdresser who dons gigantic fake breasts and pink hotpants to chat with online fetish models.

"While his wife has operated at the highest echelons of government, handling matters of national security in her recent role as DHS secretary,  Bryon Noem, 56, has been dressing up and paying adult entertainers to talk dirty.

"The Daily Mail has reviewed hundreds of messages involving three women from the 'bimbofication' scene – where porn performers transform themselves into real-life Barbie dolls by pumping colossal amounts of saline into their breasts.

"Bryon has lavished praise on their surgically-enhanced bodies, confessed his lust for 'huge, huge ridiculous boobs,' and even made indiscreet remarks about his 34-year marriage..."

This is information that should have come up during the vetting process. Attorney Rob Kelner, who has prepared nominees for the cabinet-level process, said to NPR, "It's very invasive, and all kinds of issues can surface about family members, about children, about an arrest that might have happened in the past."

With the increased use of social media, any photographed and videoed peccadilloes, even deleted ones, can be discovered. It appears that Bryon Noem had no fear of this behavior, which the Mail says took place during Kristi Noem's entire tenure as DHS Secretary, being exposed. According to texts and threads obtained by the Daily Mail, the phone Bryon Noem used for these encounters was connected to the family insurance agency, and he kept a PayPal account to fund these encounters. Bryon Noem also did not appear to care about how this online behavior could compromise Kristi Noem's position at DHS.

The Daily Mail ran the obtained photos of Bryon Noem, husband of Kristi Noem, through special software to check for any signs they had been generated by AI.

Their analysis found, “No evidence of digital tampering, with consistent lighting across the face, chest, fabric background. The telltale signs of edited or fake pictures, such as visible seams, artifacts or background distortion were not detected.”

The metadata suggests they were taken in early 2025 on an iPhone set to Central Time, consistent with Bryon's South Dakota location. More⬇️

pic.twitter.com/VCPSnpgiUm— Marla Hohner (@marlahohner) March 31, 2026

But the larger issue is the fact that a high-level Cabinet member's husband was this exposed and vulnerable to being blackmailed over these fetish encounters.

Texts and WhatsApp messages reveal that Bryon was being repeatedly asked for money during the 14 months Noem led the nation's largest federal law enforcement agency.

He sent his secret roster of online acquaintances at least $25,000 via Cash App and PayPal but when the payments were delayed or failed to materialize the chats would quickly turn sour.

One of the women became so disgruntled she posted about his behavior on social media before later deleting it.

Jack Barsky, a former Soviet spy turned US counterintelligence asset, told the Daily Mail the potential for blackmail was alarming.   

'It's astounding that somebody whose spouse is at that level has that kind of bad judgment,' he said.

From the reports, allegations, and whispers that have surrounded Kristi Noem for decades, particularly in the area of her rumored relationship with Lewandowski, "bad judgment" appears to be something that runs in the family. 

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Despite Bryon Noem's double life — something which the vetting process should have revealed — and despite the clear national security threat it presented, the choice was made to still put Noem as head of DHS. An unverified report at the Daily Beast alleged that an illegal immigrant in this underground sex trade was the one who leaked the photographs and texts from Bryon Noem because of then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's role in immigration enforcement. Imagine the embarrassment to the Trump administration, the greater setback to immigration enforcement, and the political firestorms that would have increased if this exposure had occurred while Kristi Noem still helmed DHS? 

Even in Kristi Noem's new role as special envoy, she is tasked as a liaison "with Latin American governments to fight drug cartels." Foreign governments, supposed allies, and sworn enemies use this form of intel to undermine and destroy leaders and countries. So, what would stop the cartels from trotting out this information to undermine, embarrass, threaten, or blackmail Kristi Noem or members of her family? Kristi Noem had her handbag with money, credit cards, and government-issued passes and IDs, easily stolen in 2024. How much easier would it have been for Bryon Noem or anyone in her family to lift classified documents from Kristi Noem, especially if they were threatened with this secret behavior being blasted across known media?

The entire situation sounds like it was a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. In hindsight, Trump may have made the move to replace Noem before it did.

The Daily Mail reached out to President Donald Trump for his reaction.

"'They confirmed it? Wow, well, I feel badly for the family if that's the case, that's too bad,' Trump said in a phone call.

"'I haven't seen anything. I don't know anything about it. That's too bad, but I just know nothing about it,' Trump added."

And a Noem representative also responded to the exposé, telling the New York Post, “Ms. Noem is devastated. The family was blindsided by this, and they ask for privacy and prayers at the time."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: badpicks; crossdressing; kristinoem; theapprentice; transvestite

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Why is this a big deal when Joe Biden SPECIFICALLY appointed two cross-dressing transgender to his administration?

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Rachel Levine, Joe Biden's Assistant Secretary of Health

Samuel Otis Brinton | Joe Biden's Deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy

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"The Latest Noem Scandal Raises Questions About Vetting and Potential National Security Vulnerabilities"

[PTBAA]

Is this the breast the Democrats have got?

[mass55th]

Exactly. Noem’s husband wasn’t hired. She was.

[ansel12]

At least now perversion means something, it is all of a sudden, but I’ll take it.

[jz638]

You can’t blackmail someone who isn’t ashamed of their kinks.

[Oscar in Batangas]

Whatever happened to the concept that ‘it’s just about sex’???

[MotorCityBuck]

Exactly.
She does the job the President hired her to do.
The Presidents cabinet seems to be quite intact well into the second year.
Speaks volumes.
Trump +1🇺🇸

[llevrok]

Is this the breast the Democrats have got?

That made me titter a bit

[healy61]

I wonder what ol’ bowling pin Sam is up to these days?

[BookmanTheJanitor]

"Everywhere I Look Something Reminds Me of Him".

[Karliner]

Meh, compromised goes way back to cross dressing J Edgar and not hiring homosexuals. It’s a dirty world and compromat( sp) is real.

First Patel, now Noem in less than a week?

[Rockingham]

As astonishing as it sounds, affairs and aberrant lifestyles can go on for years without the wife and family knowing. The father of a friend was exposed as a lifelong cross dresser when he was hospitalized due to a traffic accident. Divorce soon followed.

[ansel12]

It wasn’t just about blackmail, the kinks themselves used to indicate mental and emotional instability, and lack of control.

I think all three of these people indicate that they can’t be trusted if ever deeply tested.

[ansel12]

Hoover wasn’t a cross dresser as far as we know, the left has branded him that.

[Mogger]

You can’t blackmail someone who isn’t ashamed of their kinks.

Exactly.

If the fetishes and perversions of a person are out in the open they can't be blackmailed.

That's the only thing I thought was ok about the nutty democrat officials being open about the crazy behaviors.

[srmanuel]

I think this type of kinky or perverted behavior is far more common that most people think.

The State of Florida has a sexual offender database that is available to the public, you can search for sexual offenders by zip code to see how many live in your area.

Living in Florida, out of curiosity I have used the database and was shocked to learn how many perverts live within a mile or two of where I live, some have been labeled violent sexual offenders.

Kristi Noem’s husband might not be breaking the law, but it is perverted and sick, if you combined his behavior with people convicted of sexual related crimes the percentage would be at least one third of the random population, IMO.

A random sample of 1000 people living around you, would probably yield 250 to 300 sexual deviants living in the group of 1000.

The 300 people would everything from violent sexual abuse to include swingers, cross dressers, etc.

[21twelve]

There is an older couple (in their 80’s) on our block - the neighbors across from them told us about the parties they used have back in the day.

It is really weird to look at this old couple and know that they were swingers 40 years ago!