Bryon Noem, husband of former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, is in focus after a Daily Mail report alleged that he had a secret life as a cross-dresser. The report went into Bryon's fetishes, and now a possible motive and new information about the whistleblower behind the leak might have emerged.
Axios reporter Marc Caputo shared that he had been contacted by someone about information on Bryon's alleged double life. He noted that he'd gotten a tip about Bryon's alleged ‘busty bimbo’ alter ego. At the same time, the veteran White House reporter shared the possible motive behind the leak.
“Yeah, I got a weird lead,’ a source texted me Feb 13,” Caputo wrote on X, adding, “They said an immigrant sex worker, possibly in the country illegally, wanted to go public about Noem’s husband using her services online.”
After revealing that the possible whistleblower might have been an immigrant sex worker who was possibly in the country illegally, Caputo also shared a possible motive for the crime. He continued “…it was vengeance for DHS’s immigration enforcement.”
In a follow-up post, he wrote “sharing because folks sometimes wonder how reporting works. Here, I would’ve needed to talk to the accuser & verified the info the way the Mail did.” Caputo continued “When we use anonymous sources: they’re...
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