Sort:  

6/6 🧵

Kelly's bottom line: the internet enables "any kink you have" to be indulged, but when you're married to someone with a top security role, those indulgences become exploitable vulnerabilities. The lying, deceit, and money trail create exposure that adversaries could weaponize.

📎 Source

📎 Source

#threadstorm

5/6 🧵

Noem's camp says the family was "blindsided" and "devastated," requesting privacy and prayers. But Kelly argues this overshadows every previous Noem controversy — the security clearance questions now loom larger than any political misstep.

4/6 🧵

The security angle is Kelly's main concern. "Who knows who could go to Kristi Noem… and say you will do the following things or we will run… these photos," she warned. The implication: leverage over a cabinet-level official with access to sensitive intelligence.

3/6 🧵

Kelly frames this as more than just marital betrayal: "This is a form of cheating. He's not just looking at photos. He's interacting with the so-called bimbos..." She describes the alleged conduct as involving hundreds to thousands in payments per transaction.

2/6 🧵

The Daily Mail alleges Bryon Noem used a pseudonym to interact with fetish models online — exchanging explicit messages, photos of himself in women's clothing and "gigantic fake boobs," and payments totaling at least $25,000. Kelly says he didn't deny it was him when contacted.

1/6 🧵

Megyn Kelly just dropped a warning about the Kristi Noem scandal that goes way beyond tabloid shock value: blackmail vulnerability. If the Daily Mail can dig up alleged photos of Noem's husband cross-dressing in fetish gear, so can foreign adversaries — and that makes the Homeland Security Secretary's family a potential national security liability.