Kristi Noem cozies up with homophobes in Paris while campaigning to be Trump’s running mate
sideshow act campaign to be Donald Trump‘s 2024 running mate overseas.South Dakota’s gay-hating governor just got back from attending the “World Freedom Initiative: Stand, Speak and Act of Your Freedom” conference held in Paris, France last weekend.Despite claiming to be for people “across the political spectrum”, pretty much all of the keynote speakers fell into the extreme right and deeply anti-LGBTQ+ categories.The lineup included folx like gay-hating, cow-suing Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes, pro-conversion therapy Brexit bonehead Nigel Farage, Romanian talk show host/politician and accused sexual predator Dorin Iacob, and Noem’s own rumored boyfriend and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.A post shared by @wfi_2023Noem, who was billed as “On Trump’s Vice President Short List”, gave a 30-minute speech on the closing day of the conference, during which she crowed about how wonderful Trump is and touted her accomplishments as governor, focusing heavily on her response to COVID.“When President Trump was in the White House, I was on offense,” she said. “I could be creative.
I could figure out how to cut regulations that made us more efficient, how to give people more opportunities.”Noem claimed she was the only governor in the entire country to consult the constitution before making any decisions on how to handle the pandemic, resulting in South Dakota being the one only state to not mandate closings.“I stood up in front of my people and told them that we were going to embrace personal responsibility,” Noem boasted. “I didn’t even define what an essential business was because I don’t believe that governors have the authority to tell you that your business isn’t essential.”As a result, South Dakota had the third highest COVID morbidity rate in the country in 2020, according to the CDC, despite being the fifth least populated state.
