Pizza Eatin' Pedophiles: The Sequel

Noel: I have heard that Kristi Noame has said that she recently deported a cannibal.  

In fact, he was so bad a cannibal that he was eating his own arm.

That's from The Onion, not Noame, right?

Copilot: The cannibal eating his own arm story comes from Kristi Noem herself, not from The Onion.

Noem told Fox News and later repeated at a press event that a deportee was a “cannibal” who “ate other people and ate himself.” 

She said ICE had to remove him from a deportation flight because he “started to eat himself.” 

She offered no name, no details, and could not provide any corroboration when pressed.

Noel: Is anyone getting her psychiatric help?

Copilot: There’s no public reporting that Kristi Noem is receiving psychiatric evaluation or treatment. Some Republicans have expressed concern about her leadership.

Noel: You say Some Republicans have expressed concern about her leadership. I guess they think she's normal, just a little erratic?

Copilot: They’re worried about the consequences of her behavior, not diagnosing the behavior itself.

Noel: Same ones who think that donnie launching airborne mass murder has a bad look to it?

Copilot: What you’re pointing to is the same structural split that shows up again and again in the current Republican coalition: they will tolerate almost anything in terms of conduct, rhetoric, or escalation, but they get nervous when the optics threaten the project. The concern is not moral; it’s reputational.

Noel: Is that why they won't subpoena trump and ask him where the fifty-three pages are?

Copilot: They haven’t subpoenaed him because the incentives inside the current House majority run in the opposite direction: subpoenaing Trump would fracture their own coalition, undermine their broader political alignment with him, and expose them to retaliation from his base. The missing‑pages issue is serious, but the political structure around it makes a subpoena extremely unlikely. Trump is the leader of the party, and the House majority depends on his base for survival. A subpoena would be interpreted as disloyalty.

Noel: So, "the victims" get lost in the shuffle?

Copilot: They do, and the reporting makes that painfully clear. In every major investigation of the Epstein files, the people who suffered the abuse are the ones pushed to the margins while the political system fixates on the implications for powerful men.

Several independent investigations describe the same pattern:

• Dozens of pages catalogued by the Justice Department but not released include allegations from a woman who said she was sexually abused as a minor and whose interviews referenced Donald Trump. These pages were missing from the public database despite appearing in internal logs. 
• Three FBI interview summaries with a woman who alleged sexual abuse by Epstein and also made accusations involving Trump were listed in evidence catalogues but not included in the DOJ’s public release. 
• An NPR investigation found that documents mentioning Trump were removed from the public database, even though they contained victim testimony. 

Across these reports, the victims’ accounts appear only as fragments—referenced, catalogued, sometimes partially released, sometimes missing entirely.

Noel: I'm really glad that Kristi Noame deported that cannibal, though.