Kristi Noem's Account Of Meeting World Leader In New Book Is 'Bullsh**': Report
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The South Dakota governor had already stirred up controversy by revealing in her upcoming book that she shot and killed her young dog.
Kristi Noem’s claim in her new book that she met North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is highly suspect, The Dakota Scout media outlet reported Thursday, citing its own investigation and several sources.
“It’s bullshit,” a high-level Capitol Hill staffer who worked with Noem when she was a congresswoman told the independent outlet.
Noem, the Republican South Dakota governor who’s been talked up as a possible running mate for Donald Trump, already courted controversy with an account in the book of killing her young dog Cricket because the pup behaved poorly and couldn’t hunt.
The assertion that she lied about chatting with the North Korean leader when she served in the House of Representatives gained steam when Noem’s spokesperson, Ian Fury, said in a statement to Politico: “We’ve been made aware that the publisher will be addressing conflated world leaders’ names in the book before it is released.”
Noem also recalled in the book that she canceled a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron last year, which Macron’s office denied, the Scout reported.