Newsmax host tries to blame Kristi Noem dog killing controversy on a ‘liberal editor’

Newsmax host Eric Bolling has tried to blame the controversy around Kristi Noem’s confession that she killed her dog on a liberal editor inside the Donald Trump vice presidential candidate’s publishing team.

The South Dakota governor’s book No Going Back hasmade headlines in recent days after a series of wild and bizarre anecdotes made the final publication, including one particularly controversial passage where she recounts the time she killed her 14-month-old “working dog” Cricket.

In an appearance on Newsmax on Monday, host Mr Bolling sought to offer her an excuse for the scandal by wildly suggesting that the team working on her new memoir had been infiltrated by a “liberal plant”.

The “liberal media folks” have been having “a field day over trying to take down a potential Trump vice presidential pick,” he said – despite backlash coming from Democrats and Republicans alike.

He went on to call out Margaret Brennan over an interview with Ms Noem on CBS’s Face The Nation on Sunday, after the governor complained on X that she was interrupted 36 times.

Mr Bolling proudly told Ms Noem he would give her a minute or so “to tell your side of the story without interrupting you”, to which she doubled down on her claims that the anecdote was supposed to represent all the hard decisions she has made in her life and is willing to make in her political career.

The interview then took a turn when Mr Bolling offered up his own reasons as to why he thinks the passage made the final cut of the book.

“Governor, I’ve also written a couple of books, and I know how the process works. You write some chapters – you don’t write the whole book at once – you write a chapter or two, you send it to the editors, and they edit. They read it, they