The French government has joined the chorus of detractors targeting South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's political autobiography, “No Going Back,” with many wondering if she could be chosen as Donald Trump's vice president. is considered to have disappeared.
Days after Noem deleted a text claiming she had met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, officials at the Elysée Palace in Paris wrote that a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron had been called off. I question the article you wrote.
Noem claims in her book that Macron canceled a meeting scheduled for November because he made “pro-Hamas” comments, according to NBC News.
“While in Paris, I was scheduled to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron,” Noem wrote. “But the day before we met, he made comments to the press that seemed very pro-Hamas and anti-Israel. So we decided to cancel.”
However, French officials told the outlet there was no record of a scheduled meeting with Noem and that they had never invited her.
“In response to his anti-Israel comments, she chose to cancel,” Noem's publicist Ian Furey told NBC. Fury added: “The governor was invited to sit in President Macron's box to attend the Armistice Day parade at the Arc de Triomphe, a ceremony that took place on November 16.”
Fury said Macron did not attend, but an Associated Press news video suggested he did. Noem was in Paris in November 2023 to speak at the Worldwide Freedom Initiative conference.
Noem did not say what Macron's comments were against, but her office urged Israel to stop bombing Gaza and urged “Israel to defend itself and respond.” He pointed out his statement in which he acknowledged the right of the United States.
The Guardian has asked Noem's office for clarification.
Last week, Noem admitted that she “shouldn't have included it.” [an] In the book, she describes meeting Kim Jong Un and feeling undervalued by him. That's because the alleged meeting with the North Korean dictator never actually happened.
Nevertheless, she later claimed that she had “met with so many world leaders” and “traveled all over the world.”
Excerpts from the book list a number of world leaders Noem met with during her time in Congress, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Jordan's King Abdullah II, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. ing.
Harmful embellishments are not uncommon for the political class. Hillary Clinton ended up on the wrong side of a fact-checking drama during her failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, arriving in Bosnia “under sniper fire” and running with her head bowed. He claimed he had to.
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But Noem may have done further damage to her position by repeating a 20-year-old story about shooting and killing a working dog on her ranch. She explained that her 14-month-old wire-haired pointer, Cricket, failed to point out prey on animal hunts, killed a neighbor's chickens, and acted aggressively toward her family.
Nomu also said he shot and killed the family's male goat, which the governor said “loves to chase” children and “scares” them, “knocks them down and lunges at them.” He said that he was doing a lot of work.
It took Noem two shots to kill the goat, which also emitted a “miserable odor,” Noem wrote.
Noem has been heaped with criticism from both sides of the political spectrum when it comes to dogs, but not so much when it comes to goats.
Noem appeared at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort early last weekend after the former president suggested he introduce on stage various potential running mate candidates in his rematch with Joe Biden in November. It was reported over the weekend that he left behind a political fundraising lunch. Re-elected.
“She's had a tough few days,” Trump told Spectrum News 1 in Wisconsin last week. “That's what I say.”
