BRUTAL: Newsmax Host Tells Trump VP Contender Kristi Noem, ‘I Don’t Think You’re Even on the List’ Anymore
Newsmax host Rob Finnerty told South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem he no longer believes she will be former President Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate in a brutal interview on Tuesday.
Noem’s new memoir No Going Back has sparked several controversies over its content, including an anecdote about Noem killing her 14-month-old dog and a story about the governor “staring down” North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during a meeting which allegedly never took place.
Interrogating Noem over the book on Newsmax’s Wake Up America, Finnerty declared, “I think part of the problem with politics today is that politicians aren’t honest with the American people.”
“That’s true, I agree,” replied Noem.
Finnerty then said, “Governor, if you asked me a month ago who’s at the top of the list to run with Donald Trump, I would have said your name. If you asked me that same question this morning, I don’t even think you’re on the list.”
“Really? And why is that?” questioned Noem.
Finnerty responded, “Yes, really, and it’s because of things that have come out in this book like your claims that you met Kim Jong-un.”
The Newsmax host read the quote from Noem’s book before adding, “Governor, that never happened, did it?”
“I should not have put that anecdote in the book,” conceded Noem, to which Finnerty shot back, “But an anecdote indicates that it happened, right?”
“I’m not going to talk about my conversations with world leaders,” Noem bluntly declared – a statement she has made repeatedly when pressed about the alleged meeting with Kim Jong-un.
Finnerty snapped, “Governor, I’m not asking you about the details of this alleged meeting. I’m asking if the meeting actually happened. I don’t think it did and I think if it did, you’d be able to confirm for me that, ‘Yes, it did, and here’s when it happened.’ It happened, say, at such and such a date or a month or you don’t have to be specific.”
After Noem refused yet again to say whether the alleged meeting actually took place, Finnerty continued, “Again, I think at one point you were at the top of that list, but you’re going to get questions a lot more difficult than that.”
Despite endorsing Noem’s book, Trump allegedly told several people he was “disgusted” by the governor’s anecdote about killing her 14-month-old dog Cricket in a gravel pit.
According to unnamed sources, Trump was baffled by Noem’s confession that she shot her dog after it proved “less than worthless” as a hunting dog and questioned, “Why would she do that?” and “What is wrong with her?”
Watch above via Newsmax.
