Taxpayers in South Dakota stumped up a massive $150,000 to help finance then-Governor Kristi Noem’s cross-country flights last year, new analysis has show.
The bills, accrued during her time as governor and during President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, include almost $8,000 for plane tickets to a right-wing conference in Paris, a book tour through New York and a bear-hunting trip to Canada, according to the Associated Press, which collated the data. Noem also went on “numerous” trips to Trump’s then-home in Palm Beach, Florida as she continued to rise up the MAGA movement’s ranks.
