"Amid growing calls for Noem to resign " after tarring Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti as guilty of "domestic terrorism" in the immediate aftermath of their killings by federal agents " or face impeachment for obstruction of Congress, self-dealing, and violation of public trust, the false story about a supposed cannibal shows that a willingness to deceive the American public began long before Minneapolis.

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"This administration's pattern of abusing innocent Americans in the street " from tear-gassing kids to shooting and killing citizens " and then turning around and lying about it to try and cover their asses cannot be allowed to continue," Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., told The Intercept.

Sitting alongside Trump during a July press conference, Noem offered a prime example of the "kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in America, that we're trying to target and get out of our country."

Noem said that federal agents had "detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home, and while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself."