Donald Trump's controversial Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, endured a great tragedy while she was trying to earn a college degree. During a May 2012 interview with Bloomberg , the Republican politician revealed that she initially enrolled in university in 1990 to obtain a degree in education. Sadly, as Noem neared the completion of her higher education in 1994, her beloved father, Ronald Arnold, passed away in a farming incident. In another interview with CBS News, that very same month, she opened up about how the tremendous loss impacted her family. "It turned our whole lives upside down. He was the guy who could do anything," Noem shared. "I remember going to bed that night thinking, 'I have no idea what tomorrow looks like because he's not here.'"

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