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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Kristi Noem rejects ‘liberal plant’ claim on dog-killing tale: ‘Buck stops with me’

a book jacket featuring a woman
Kristi Noem’s book No Going Back features a story of shooting a dog and an unfounded claim of having met the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Asked if a story about killing a dog and a goat as well as a false claim to have met Kim Jong-un could have been put in her book by an editor acting as “a liberal plant”, the South Dakota governor and Republican vice-presidential hopeful Kristi Noem seemed to realise such a claim would be too outlandish even for her.

“The buck always stops with me,” Noem told Newsmax. “I take my own full responsibility. I wrote this book.”

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