South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says that she was not given any paperwork from former President Donald Trump to be vetted for the position of vice president.
Noem was widely speculated to be in the running until she released her memoir in which she bragged about shooting a 14-month-old puppy that she "hated."
During Sunday's episode of Meet the Press, Noem was asked if she had received any vetting paperwork.
The governor replied, “The only person who knows who the vice president’s going to be is Donald Trump.”
“I haven’t received any paperwork,” she clarified. “I’ve had conversations with the president, and I know that he is the only one who will be making the decisions on who will be his vice president.”
Trump has said that he has made his decision about his running mate but has not announced their name.
According to a report from The Hill, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Sens. Marco Rubio, Tim Scott, and JD Vance have all received the vetting paperwork.
In April, Noem faced backlash from both the right and the left over an excerpt from her book “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward,” in which she discussed killing a puppy named Cricket.
Noem had taken the dog on a hunting trip in hopes that it would learn from the older dogs how to behave on a hunt.
Instead, she wrote, Cricket ruined the hunt by “chasing all those birds and having the time of her life.”
On the way home, the dog supposedly killed several of a neighbor's chickens.
“I hated that dog,” Noem wrote, adding that she decided the dog must be put down. Kristi Noem goes on Meet the Press and immediately gets called out for shooting her dog.
Why that woman thinks she’ll be known for anything other than that is beyond me.
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— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) June 23, 2024
Noem said that she walked the dog over to a gravel pit on her property and shot her. She also went and got a goat that smelled bad and shot him too.
When her children returned from school, they began looking for the puppy.
“I guess if I were a better politician, I wouldn’t tell the story here,” Noem wrote of the killing.
