The Issue: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s $3k-filled bag stolen by an illegal immigrant.

A question has gotten lost in the preoccupation with the fact that the purse snatcher who victimized Kristi Noem was an illegal immigrant: Where was her security detail (“Shoulda been bagged in NY,” April 29)?

Whether it was a Secret Service protective detail or agents from Homeland Security, the fact remains that an official on her level is more in danger of someone putting something in her purse as opposed to stealing it. Can you imagine the threat level of a recorder in her personal property?

The irony of the background of the perpetrator is taking attention away from this much more dangerous scenario.

Lee Hoffman

Lakewood Ranch, Fla.

I guess when you’re Homeland Security Secretary, you don’t have to worry about the trivial safety tips that any other citizen would follow — like always having your valuables in a secure place when out in public.

Thank goodness Kristi Noem had the full power of criminal justice to look out for her and her Gucci bag. If I had one with $3,000 in it, I would certainly sleep better tonight.

Carol Puttre-Czyz

Manhattan

Homeland Security Secretary Noem is entrusted with ensuring the safety of 350 million Americans.

Yet even with her taxpayer-funded security detail, she can’t safeguard her own belongings that were taken by a two-bit purse snatcher.

Do you all feel safer yet?

Vin Morabito

Scranton, Pa.

Let’s be honest here: Had it not been the handbag of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, there is no possible way your publication would have the thief on the front page or a two-page spread about it on the inside which overly highlights the illegal status of the thief.

Further, it’s fairly safe to say that law enforcement made it their top priority to capture the thief. Had it been anyone else, the police would’ve most likely ignored it.

Michael Lefkowitz

East Meadow

Why haven’t any of the news reports about Kristi Noem’s stolen purse, cash, checks, keys, passport , driver’s license and DHS badge, mentioned the possibility of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s classified plans, which could have also been in her purse?

Richard Siegelman

Plainview

The Issue: Martin Gurri on President Trump and the “consequential dimension of his character.”

Bravo to Martin Gurri for his insightful piece on President Trump (“Unshakeable Don shakes fist at destiny,” May 1).

Perhaps the best, yet understated, point Gurri made was that Trump is “one of a kind.”

The vast majority of Americans haven’t realized the unique road Trump took to reach the White House — again.

He once rose like a phoenix from the ashes to reclaim his coveted billionaire status in what is widely described as the greatest comeback in US business history.

Then, after the hotly contested election in 2020, Trump left office in disgrace and entered the political “wilderness” only to re-emerge.

Luana Dunn

Medford

Trump’s two-term presidency is a unique experiment of government because the man himself is an idiosyncratic politician.

His opposition is unique in our history with legacy media journalists whose hatred of him has led to suppressed falsehoods and the camouflaged senility of his predecessor.

Trump is a courageous man whose belief in himself resurrected his presidential ambition by taking on political problems others shied away from.

Paul Bloustein

Cincinnati, Ohio

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