A French official said there is no record of a scheduled meeting with the South Dakota governor – nor had they invited her

A French official said there is no record of a scheduled meeting with the South Dakota governor – nor had they invited her

The French government has joined the chorus of detractors taking aim at South Dakota governor Kristi Noem’s political autobiography No Going Back, which many now see as having eliminated her chances of being Donald Trump’s vice-presidential selection.

Days after Noem removed a passage claiming she had met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, officials at the Élysée Palace in Paris are questioning a passage that describes a cancelled meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron.

  • kescusay@lemmy.world
    741·
    6 months ago

    It’s beginning to look like the only true passage in that book is the one where she describes killing a puppy.

      • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        6 months ago

        At a minimum, we’ve already heard rumors that she was simply pissed off and embarrassed, and that people were way closer than they should have been to a person angrily wielding a firearm.

  • ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
    611·
    6 months ago

    So, she’s like Santos, but an animal murderer?

    I get decisions on farms can be tough/unpleasant with respect to other animals, but her descriptions of what happened just seem lazy.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      6 months ago

      Agreed. I’m willing to allow that the dog was probably never going to be a skilled hunting dog, though I don’t trust her to have determined that. It may even have been dangerous, though I rather doubt that had to be its destiny, and, again, we have some credibility issues with our decider.

      There are just so many layers between a nippy, excitable working dog that’s struggling with the (likely inadequate) training, and shooting it in the head in front of people. Then the goat thing confirms that she isn’t isn’t some sort of calm and skillful rural badass; she just likes the power inherent in hurting things that don’t do what you want them do.

      Maybe most of our politicians are a bit sociopathic, but for fuck’s sake can we please elect the ones that are more skillful at masking and methodically figuring out what the emotionally functioning humans want them to act like? It’s cynical, and a depressing level of low expectations, but that used to be the bar.

    • modifier@lemmy.ca
      7·
      6 months ago

      Hopefully the animal stories were fake too and no animals were harmed in the making of her downfall.

    • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 months ago

      The more stupid and contrived it all sounds, the more apt she seems to be for the VP position on the orange ticket.

  • Pfeffy@lemmy.world
    301·
    6 months ago

    There are almost 20 cities in the United States with more residents than all of North Dakota. I don’t know how she got so huge in her own mind. It would be far more believable that the mayor of New York or La would be hobnobbing with world leaders, than the governor of South Dakota.

  • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc@lemmy.federate.cc
    21·
    6 months ago

    Why would anyone have thought otherwise? What are the odds that a world leader of a global power would meet with a regional official from one of the smallest and least politically relevant states in America?

  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
    9·
    6 months ago

    I was under the impression that she was not going to name names of the world leaders she met with. Are you telling me that she lied?

    • acetanilide@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 months ago

      Well she didn’t meet with him…so technically she didn’t lie

      My guess is she was “planning” to meet with him but never told anyone (except her publisher) and ultimately “cancelled” it because she probably had no idea how to even approach getting such a meeting in the first place

    • acetanilide@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      I mean, I’m not going to read it so I definitely won’t be fact checking it

      Maybe I am her audience 🤔