Kristi Noem gets it
CNN
Will the South Dakota governor's loose relationship with the facts bother former President Donald Trump as he considers a 2024 veep choice? Are you kidding? asks Michael D'Antonio. Trump would consider it a definite plus, he writes, especially if he reflects on Noem's recent little nepotism scandal. Sure, it's being investigated by the state's attorney general. But that only makes her an even more authentic Trumper.
The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, two sources familiar with the matter said Saturday, ahead of a September 15 withdrawal deadline agreed to by the two countries.
The judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York on Friday informed the former president’s defense team and prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office that a comment was posted on the New York State Unified Court Systems’ public Facebook page last week by a poster who claimed to be a cousin of a juror, saying that Trump would be convicted.