Newsmax Host Asks Kristi Noem If Her Book Editor Was ‘A Liberal Plant’ Who Inserted Unflattering Stories

Newsmax host Eric Bolling asked South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem whether her book editor could have been “a liberal plant” intent on making her look bad after Noem received backlash over several passages from her new memoir.

Reacting to the controversies surrounding Noem’s book – including an extract which detailed the governor’s decision to kill her 14-month-old dog Cricket after it proved “less than worthless” as a hunting animal – Bolling said:

I’ve also written a couple of books and I know how the process works. You write some chapters, you don’t write the whole book at once. You write a chapter or two, you send it to the editors, and they edit, they read it, they add, they subtract, and here’s my question. The editor, the editor, was she possibly a plant? A liberal plant? Because I’m not sure either one of these stories – the dog story, the North Korea story – seems like the Kristi Noem I know.

“No, the buck always stops with me. I take my own full responsibility,” replied Noem. “I wrote this book and I take the responsibility for what’s in it. It’s a great book, Eric. I hope everybody reads it and buys it. It’s available tomorrow.”

Noem sparked outrage among Republicans and Democrats alike last month after she boasted in her book No Going Back about killing her dog Cricket after it proved “less than worthless” for pheasant hunting and killed several chickens.

“I hated that dog,” wrote Noem, earning her condemnations from several Fox News analysts, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), and reportedly even former President Donald Trump.

Noem’s book generated even more controversy this week after she was accused of lying about a supposed meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in another section of the memoir, which has since been removed.

During an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters on Monday, Noem refused to say whether she had ever met with the North Korean leader.

“I don’t have conversations about my conversations with world leaders,” she told Watters.

Watch above via Newsmax.