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‘Please, Someone, Be America’s Greatest Hero’

Samantha Bee made it clear on Wednesday that she was happy to see Kirstjen Nielsen go as secretary of homeland security.

“Kirstjen is a lying ghoul who enforced policies that tore families apart and impacted thousands of lives,” Bee said in characteristically vitriolic terms. “She deserves to be shunned as hard as disgraced movie moguls and morning show hosts,” Bee added, showing photos of Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer.