Kristi Noem capped off an embarrassing week with a brutal CBS Face the Nation appearance, in which host Margaret Brennan unrelentingly grilled the South Dakota governor on the controversies surrounding her forthcoming book.
At one point in the book, titled No Going Back, Noem recalled meeting North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, claiming he “underestimated” her. However, experts have called into question whether such a meeting could have ever taken place.
“Did you meet Kim Jong Un?” Brennan asked the governor, who avoided answering the question and instead said she’s “met with many, many world leaders” and has “made some edits” to the book.
Noem was also grilled about another anecdote in the book, first reported by The Guardian, in which Noem brags about executing her 14-month-old dog, Cricket, after it killed a neighbor’s chickens and tried to bite her.
Noem wrote that she “hated” Cricket, and so she took the “extremely dangerous” dog to a gravel pit on her property and put it down. It was “not a pleasant job,” she wrote, but “had to be done.” (The governor also recalled executing a goat she found to be too smelly and aggressive.)
The revelation, among other oddities contained in her book, caused near-universal outrage is widely viewed has having destroyed her chances of being selected as Donald Trump’s running mate.
When asked about her chances as the veep choice on Sunday, Noem ignored the question and seemingly suggested to Brennan that President Joe Biden’s dog, Commander, should be shot for chomping on Secret Service agents.
