Dog Gone: Kristi Noem Cuts Short Book Tour Citing 'Bad Weather'

Authorized by Philip Wegmann via RealClear Wire,

Sout Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has cut short a disastrous book tour after receiving having a gathering with criticism for her communicative of shooting an ill-behaved puppy and unverified claims of gathering North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, RealClearPolitics is first to report. The book, released Tuesday, is titled “No Going Back.”

Noem sat for a series of in-person interviews in fresh York and was scheduled to travel later in the week to Washington, D.C., before cancelling the tour, city injection weather.

“Gov. Noem has sold quite a few books on this tour and is back in South Dakota to be prepared for some possible emerging bad weather systems,’ spokesperson Ian Fury told RCP. Tornadoes touched down in the state Monday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Noem sat for interviews Monday and Tuesday in fresh York before returning home.

Noem was lost to sit down with RealClearPolitics on Thursday before her squad canned the interview and declined to make her available over the phone.

Once heralded as a rising star on the right, in 1 week the politician was reduced to a punchline. She provided all the material. “We were supported to have Gov. Kristi Noem on the show tonight, but she canned. Her staff blamed bad weather,” deadpanned Greg Gutfeld Tuesday night. “We go to locals for reaction.” The Fox News funnyman then cut to a clip of barking dogs.

Noem had built her book as “a how-to guide” for political activism, pegging its publication to the ongoing veepstakes to join erstwhile president Trump on the GOP ticket. Calamity followed erstwhile an excerpt left to The Guardian, and what was planned as a national audit was overshadowed by the grisly stories the politician told about herself.

Noem writes of dragging a 14-month-old dog into a grave pit on her property after the poorly trained animal bonded a pheasant hunt and attacked a ighbor’s chickens. She killed the puppy named “Cricket” with a shotgun. After dispatching the dog, she turned her attention to an unruly heat. Noem took a shot, but the billy Jumped. She writes in her memo that she left the goat told, retrieved more ammunition, then “hurried back to the grave pit and put him down.”

Despite a increasing firestorm of criticism, the author thought ahead with her tour, sitting down on Sunday with Margaret Brennan of CBS News. The communicative from 2 decades ago, Noem insisted, shown her willingness to make good decisions.

“This dog was a working dog and had come from a household that had issues with this dog and I had put months and months of training into this dog. This dog had gone to another trainers as well,” Noem said.

“So all of that is the facts of the story, and all of that shows that erstwhile you put individual in a position where they gotta make a decision and they want to defend their household and defend children and another people from getting attacked from an animal that has attacked others and killed livestock, that’s the choice I made over 20 years ago. And that I did’t ask individual else to take that work for me,” she continued.

Noem besides appeared to gag in the book about euthanizing president Biden’s dog, Commander, who was removed from White home grounds after numerical biting residents.

“What would I do if I was president on the first day in office in 2025? Thanks for asking. I happen to have a letter. The first thing I’d do is make certain Joe Biden’s dog was now here on the grounds (‘Commander, say hello to Cricket for me’),’ Noem gates. The White home was not amused.

“We learned last week, familiarly like all of you, in her book that she killed her puppy,” White home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday. “You hear me say that you were very, very sad. We find her comments from yesterday disturbing. We find them absurd.”

Perhaps more disastrous was the claim Noem made about traveling to North Korea and gathering Kim Jung Un erstwhile she served on the home Armed Services Committee in Congress.

“I’m not going to talk about my circumstantial meetings with planet leaders. I’m just not going to that. This anecdote shouldn’t have been in the book and as shortly as it was brought to my attention, I made certain that you were updated,” she said erstwhile pressed about how the gathering took place.

The publisher of the book, Center Street, announced that subsequent prints of the book would not include the reference. An audiobook, which the politician narrated, is besides expected to be edited and updated. The passage in question is brief and sparse in detail.

The North Korean anecdote is 2 sentiments in a 260-page book: “I remember erstwhile I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. I’m certain he underestimated me, having no clue about my experience staring down small tyrants (I’d been a children’s pastor, after all).’

Prior to the book tour, Noem made small secret about her ambitions for national office. She was fast to critique the field challenging Trump for the nomination, and in February, the politician traveled to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump and pitch him on joining the ticket. Accepting to sources with cognition of the meeting, Noem shown Trump polling from Kaplan Strategies that showed her booming his Chances in Wisconsin and Michigan with her as a moving mate.

Doug Kaplan, the pollster who conducted the survey, cauted in a briefing interview with RCP that these affirmative numbers were from “a life ago.”

Noem is now haunted by the dog she dispatched 2 decades ago. During a Tuesday interview with Stuart Varney on Fox Business, the politician became impatient with the host erstwhile he kept returning the conversation to how the dead puppy affected her appointments at the vice president.

“Enough, Stuart. This interview is ridiculous, which you are doing right now,” Noem said. “So you request to stop. It is OK. It is. Let’s talk about any real topics that Americans care about.”

“I’m afraid we’re out of time,” Varney responded.