Maddow Blog-Discredited claim from DHS' Kristi Noem does fresh harm to her dwindling credibility

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The beleaguered homeland security secretary didn’t exactly have a lot of credibility to spare. A new incident won’t help.

Discredited claim from DHS’ Kristi Noem does fresh harm to her dwindling credibility - MSNBC

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A week later, the Cabinet secretary tried to get back on track with a story she seemed quite excited about. According to allegations Noem raised by way of social media, the Department of Homeland Security successfully apprehended a Mexican man who, according to her, had threatened to kill Donald Trump. She even promoted an image of the man’s handwritten threat and urged the public to “take notice,” as the White House amplified Noem’s claims.

In hindsight, that was unwise. As The Associated Press reported, the underlying story “has begun to unravel.”

Investigators actually believe the man may have been framed so that he would get arrested and be deported from the U.S. before he got a chance to testify in a trial as a victim of assault, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. ... Law enforcement officials believe the man, Ramon Morales Reyes, never wrote a letter that Noem and her department shared with a message written in light blue ink expressing anger over Trump’s deportations and threatening to shoot him in the head with a rifle at a rally.

The AP’s report, which has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, added that officials contacted Morales Reyes and asked for a handwriting sample. They “concluded his handwriting and the threatening letter didn’t match and that the threat was not credible.”....

The ABC affiliate in Milwaukee went on to report that local prosecutors have identified a different man as the person who wrote the threatening letter, as part of a plot “to get Morales-Reyes deported and eliminate the chance of him testifying” in a violent armed robbery case

[surfered]

1. She had credibility?

[oberle]

2. illiterate

I was reading somewhere that Morales-Reyes is illiterate and does not speak English. Thus making a note from him impossible.

[creon]

3. too funny

Noem has no clue about credibility

[BoRaGard]

4. G.O.P. systematically trashes the Ten Commandments

a glaring spiritual red flag of perfidy
(the act of deliberately violating faith or allegiance;
violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed;
faithlessness; treachery.