Her hopes for VP nomination were already in the grave alongside her dead puppy; now she's shoveling dirt on both of them

Trump running mate contender retracts claim she met Kim Jong-un

Governor Kristi Noem to ‘adjust’ memoir to remove description of supposed encounter with North Korean dictator

Ms Noem wrote of her apparent encounter with the authoritarian leader during a passage in which she described travelling to “many countries to meet with world leaders”, according to a review in The New York Times.

“I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. I’m sure he underestimated me, having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants (I’d been a children’s pastor, after all),” she wrote.

After a wave of public scepticism over the claim, Ian Fury, Ms Noem’s spokesman, clarified it was one of two “small errors” that would be changed. 

Pro tip: you should have lied about the first one, Kristi, and told the truth about the second.