Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) told CBS News’ Alan He on Thursday that President Donald Trump called him after his grilling of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem the day before, and suggested that Noem’s under oath testimony had not been accurate.

Noem and Kennedy tussled during a Senate hearing on Wednesday over the hundreds of millions of dollars she spent on a pro-ICE ad campaign she starred in.

“The president approved ahead of time you spending $220 million running TV ads across the country in which you are featured prominently?” Kennedy asked Noem during the hearing.

“Yes sir, we went through the legal processes–” Noem replied.

“Did the president know you were gonna do this?” Kennedy demanded as Noem insisted Trump was aware of it.

“I’m not saying you’re not telling the truth. It’s just hard for me to believe, knowing the president, as I do, that you said, ‘Mr. President, here’s some ads I’ve cut, and I’m going to spend $220 million running them,’ that he would have agreed to that,” Kennedy replied.

“I don’t think Russ Vought would have agreed to that,” Kennedy added, referring to the fiscal hawk running the Office of Management and Budget.

Kennedy spoke to He and told him, “After the hearing, the President [of] the United States called me, and I’m not going to speak for him. You folks know him. You can ask him yourselves, but put it this way, his recollection and her recollection are different.”

Trump later told Reuters in a phone interview, “I never knew anything about it.”

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/gop-senator-who-had-viral-spat-with-kristi-noem-reveals-trump-refuted-her-under-oath-claim-about-him/

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so kristi spent $220 million in taxpayer dollars for glamour shots of herself to be aired nationwide

also, kristi should have never shot her puppy in the head and then brag about doing so like she was some bad ass bitch

Thank You, President Trump, for shit canning her

Attention DePaul University donors! Do you want to check out how your funding is being put to use? The institution just initiated an obnoxious, new anti-ICE journalism institute in partnership with radical ex-Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot and another Chicago-based left-wing group financed by some of the most notorious leftists in American politics.

The supposedly Catholic DePaul — which sits comfortably on a roughly $1.15 billion endowment — announced that it was launching the cringely-named Institute for Journalism and Racial Justice (IJRJ) during a February 25 campus event, according to student newspaper The DePaulia.

“DePaul launches new journalism institute aligned with Lightfoot ICE initiative,” read the headline by DePaulia editor-in-chief Sofia Joseph and content managing editor Laura Vázquez David. Also telling was that the anti-ICE “community briefing” with Lightfoot was moderated by former ABC News Nightline correspondent Chris Bury, who has since become the senior journalist-in-residence at DePaul. Per The Depaulia, “In describing how racial justice comes into play at [her] ICE accountability project, Lightfoot” told Bury that “it is ‘fundamentally a part of where we are.’”

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2026/03/05/depaul-university-launches-new-racial-justice-anti-ice