{"id":1075,"date":"2025-04-24T17:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:26:48","slug":"kristi-noem-recounts-her-purse-being-stolen-it-was-kind-of-shocking-thief-hooked-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/kristi-noem-recounts-her-purse-being-stolen-it-was-kind-of-shocking-thief-hooked-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristi Noem recounts her purse being stolen: &#8216;It was kind of shocking&#8217;; thief &#8216;hooked&#8217; it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem in a recent interview recounted her purse being stolen at a Washington, D.C., restaurant, saying the thief &#8220;hooked&#8221; it while it was on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was kind of shocking, actually, because it was sitting right by my feet,\u201d Noem told podcast host Vince Coglianese <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/kristi-noem-on-the-border-deportations-the-secret\/id965293227?i=1000704615196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on a Wednesday episode<\/a> of his \u201cVince\u201d podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually felt my purse \u2014 he hooked it with his foot and drug it a few steps away and dropped a coat over it and took it,\u201d the DHS secretary said.<\/p>\n<p>An official previously confirmed to The Hill\u2019s sister network NewsNation that Noem\u2019s purse, which had $3,000 of cash in it as well as her department access badge, was <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5258857-dhs-secretary-noem-purse-stolen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stolen Sunday at a restaurant<\/a> in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Noem had been eating dinner when a thief stole her purse that also had her passport, driver\u2019s license, blank checks and keys.<\/p>\n<p>McLaughlin also told NewsNation that Noem had been celebrating Easter at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had the cash because her whole family was in town (including children and grandchildren) and was treating them to activities, dinner and Easter gifts,\u201d McLaughlin said.<\/p>\n<p>Noem also said on the podcast that the stolen purse had not been returned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt it but I thought it was my grandkids kicking me in the legs,\u201d Noem said of the incident, adding later that \u201cit was very professionally done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem in a recent interview recounted her purse being stolen at a Washington, D.C., restaurant, saying the thief &#8220;hooked&#8221; it while it was on the floor. \u201cIt was kind of shocking, actually, because it was sitting right by my feet,\u201d Noem told podcast host Vince Coglianese on a Wednesday episode of his \u201cVince\u201d podcast.\u00a0 \u201cI actually felt my purse \u2014 he hooked it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}