Homeland Security Secretary Christ Noem He defended the US secret service, which is tasked with protecting President Donald Trump, while on Sunday he is a true history as the first seated US president to attend Super Bowl.
The secret service belongs to the action of the department Homeland Security. When asked if she had enough time to enter the department and exploration of omissions that led to attempted assassination at July 13 Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, Noem told the host Fox News Sunday “Shannon Bream da DHS” moved in the right side ” Direction, “while stressed that hundreds of other DHS staff will be distributed outside the secret service during the game.
“And I am proud of the secret service and all the work they do every day. They make incredible victims so that people would be safe, and on the investigating side they have a lot of that training,” Noem said. “But for this event we have also arranged many other assets. We are obviously working with the local authorities, with the governor and with his agencies he has in detail about it.”
“But we have several different agencies under the Ministry of Internal Security that hundreds of individuals have put to investigators and military police on such types of crowds and security operations in other wards that are focused today to make sure they are sure that they are safe this great event will be We will also be sure that we will make the right decisions in these situations that could come and bring it back home, “Noem added.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a press conference on Monday, February 3, 2025, about safety for Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Super Bowl hosts in New Orleans, just one month after New Year’s terrorist truck terrorist attack Against Bourbon Street Revelers, they killed 14 victims and injured 35 others. Super Bowl is DHS’s biggest event of the year. Noem asked what the changes that are about security preparations, now that Trump will attend the Superdome in New Orleans to watch the double defense champion Kansas City Chiefs taking over Philadelphia Eagles.
“It’s so special that the president, for the first time in history, goes to Super Bowl,” Noem said. “So, even though we have been focused there for security operations for many months and we have been preparing for this day, for President Trump to be there, it just enhances the message that a great game means that everyone has to celebrate, support their team and go home and return home for sure .
On Friday, Trump told the New York Post that he ordered a secret service to hand over to him “every little information” known about his two potential killer, Thomas Crooks and Ryan Routh.
“No more restraint because of Biden,” Trump said allegedly. “I have the right to know. And they kept him long enough.”
Uh-1y Veno Helicopter of Attack Eskadrile Marine Light 773 fly over Caesars Superdome in front of Super Bowl Lix, on Saturday, February 8, 2025 in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Julia Demree Nikhinson)
“I want to find out about two killers,” the president added. “Why did one guy had six cell phones and why the other guy had [foreign] Apps? ”
Last week, noma and NFL security officers hosted a press conference with details about preparations ahead of the game.
Trump Golfs with Tiger Woods on the eve of the expected visit to the Super Bowl Lix
Then she said that DHS would have about 700 staff on the field to play, but she would not be specific about numbers, because “we maintain the prerogative to adapt these numbers as we consider it appropriate.”
Apart from the response to the ground, Noem said DHS also has regulations in the air As far as drone traffic is concernedas well as cyber -safety operations to monitor network activities.
“We will use different agencies and departments under the auspices of Homeland Security, but President Trump also obliged us to implement other property from other departments and agencies, and appreciate the flexibility that we have given us we must deal with the team even in a way we think We meet forward, “Noem said. “We are grateful for this intervening support and I believe it is unprecedented.”
“This Super Bowl shows how we gather to protect our traditions,” Noem said. “How do we gather to make sure that the public is well informed and celebrates us something that is very special for us-to our culture, our people and our families. But we do it in a way that responds to what we look at as the current environment which we see today in the world.
Louisiana government Jeff Landry said he was distributing additional 350 troops of the National Guard to support the federal effort.
President Donald Trump leaves MAR-a-status on Sunday, February 9, 2025 at Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Noem recognized the “strength, unity and resistance of this city” after the terrorist attack on January 1, adding that there were no special, credible threats of Super Bowl at the time.
