South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is not having a great day. Or a great week, for that matter. And by the looks of things, tomorrow probably isn’t going to be so great for her either. Next week’s looking not great, as well.
Rumors that the “family values” Republican, who once supported an amendment banning same-sex marriage, is having an extramarital affair with adviser Corey Lewandowski, who previously served as Trump’s campaign manager, are swirling all over social media.
Related: Gov. Kristi Noem has been on a homophobic hate bender for the last 48 hours on Twitter
According to the conservative blog American Greatness, the alleged affair has been going on for some time now and isn’t exactly a secret among GOP insiders.
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“There are members of Congress close to Mar-a-Lago who have called the affair ‘an open secret’ and worried about Noem’s viability as a national candidate and within the movement,” a source says.
Neither Noem, who hates trans people, or Lewandowski, who is an all-around piece of garbage, have commented on their alleged romantic entanglement, but Twitter sure has a lot to say about it…
When I just read that SD governor @KristiNoem is cheating on her husband by banging, of all people, Corey Lewandowski, I wasn't even surprised. It's always the most anti-LGBTQ (because "family values") vocal conservative bigots who are the ones cheating, f*%king, and stealing. https://t.co/olvIeDgySD
— Chris Wiggins ???? (@CWNewser) September 29, 2021
Corey lewandowski and Kristi Noem having an affair is absolutely hilarious…..party of family values ?
— Thee Kaylee (@WhiskeyPanda24) September 29, 2021
Just in case Corey Lewandowski and Kristi Noem act like they’ve never met. pic.twitter.com/avyetR9KBq
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) September 29, 2021
Someone
Anyone
Explain to me how Corey Lewandowski and Jason miller keep finding people to sleep with them.
I can't understand— ALT-immigration ? (@ALT_uscis) September 29, 2021
Married, South Dakota Gov Kristi Noem is having an affair with Married, Corey Lewandowski.
The family value party!
Please don't let them multiply!
— Agolf Twitler Slayer (@bblock29) September 29, 2021
Corey Lewandowski is having yet another extramarital affair, this time with corrupt SD governor/death merchant Kristi Noem. Previously he banged Hope Hicks. You may remember him for assaulting a female reporter & sexually assaulting a trump supporter. The party of family values!
— ? Scary Larry ? ?????? (@StompTheGOP) September 29, 2021
Corey Lewandowski and Kristi Noem? Poor little Hope Hicks, always the bridesmaid, never the bride. pic.twitter.com/cRrXjw5W5F
— Ellen Garrison (@EllenTrailerDog) September 29, 2021
When do we get to the Corey Lewandowski seeks treatment for sex addiction bend in this river of grossness?
— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 29, 2021
No woman deserves to be subjected to Corey Lewandowski.
Except Kristi Noem.
— Howard ? (@HowardA_Esq) September 29, 2021
Before the trump era, I had no idea South Dakota was so fucked up.
Their AG killed a man, lied about it and left the scene is now supposed to be investigating their governor who is banging Corey Lewandowski (puke) and threatened a longtime agency head to license her daughter.
— WTF, America? (@tfamerica3000) September 29, 2021
Now, about that last tweet.
In addition to the whole sleeping with Corey Lewandowski thing, Noem, who believes homophobia is “free speech,” is also accused of getting her daughter Kassidy’s application to be a certified real estate appraiser approved after it was initially denied, then forcing the woman who denied it to retire.
The Associated Press reported yesterday:
Just days after a South Dakota agency moved to deny her daughter’s application to become a certified real estate appraiser, Gov. Kristi Noem summoned to her office the state employee who ran the agency, the woman’s direct supervisor and the state labor secretary. Noem’s daughter attended too.
Noem responded to the bombshell story by accusing the media of trying to destroy her children, despite the fact that Kassidy is a grown ass 26-year-old woman, not a child. Also, nobody accused her of doing anything other than attending the meeting her mother allegedly ordered, which many say is a textbook example of abuse of power.
Listen I get it. I signed up for this job. But now the media is trying to destroy my children. This story is just another example of the double standard that exists with the media… going after conservatives and their kids while ignoring Liberals #AskTheBigGuy
— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) September 27, 2021
Noem, who believes protecting “religious freedom” is more important than protecting LGBTQ youth, is largely considered a 2024 frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president. Or, at least, she was before this week.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Mr. Stadnick
“Rumors that the “family values” Republican, ”
Sad, rumors aren’t journalism. Rumors that Queerty is crap abound.
barryaksarben
So the right wing troll rushes here to defend these two nazi pukes. I struggled to think of a more heinous paring but all I could think of is Ilse Koch and Hinrich Himmler. What lovly children they will have then eat. Mr Standick you are either a troll or dont understand that they have to call it a rumor to protect the site from legal action but if you could read AND comprehend what you read then you would have seen that it is an open secret in the gop. Why are they even trying to hide it as the gop has sunk to such a low level they have an adulterous scumbag conman as their new messiah who flaunts his sleazy sex-capades. This coupling is frightening as his Goebbels level lying and her rassenhygenie approach to the population of her white United States can only bring bad things into being
radiooutmike
Queerty is journalism?
Who was your journalism professor? Hedda Hooper? Rona Barrett?
Cam
@radiooutmike
Translation: You can’t defend the point so lash out at the site printing it.
Fahd
This story is being reported elsewhere too. I was a little surprised because Roger Stone stated in the documentary about Stone (I think ¨Get me Roger Stone ¨ ) that Lewandowski meant c*cksucker in Polish.
Also, I can’t help but notice that South Dakota has come a long, long way down since the days of the heroic Sen. George McGovern. It seems now that the republicans have succeeded in taking over that the they are up to their usual republican corruption and abuse of power; farmers be damned. Wake up South Dakotans!
PerhapsYesNoMaybe
So the lady who belongs to a party that makes it its mission to harm LGBT children (actual kids) is complaining about her own children (who are adults) no longer being shielded from scrutiny (which BTW was merely a courtesy extended to politicians who don’t harm other people)? What a hypocrite.
Prax07
Family Values just means married straights cheating with other married straights. Whenever you hear some straight republican trash pushing Family Values it’s code for their on the lookout to do some extramarital banging.
Invader7
Irony: All of these vile, gross , FASCIST , repulsive , disgusting, nasty ,putrid pathetic low life scum bags all get Covid and end up DEAD DEAD DEAD !!! Or they all go to the unvaccinated ranch, catch Covid and DIE !!! That would their KARMA served up to them.
Elizavetaoe
lol kek 4ebureck!))@#(
Cam
When Republicans say “Family Values” it’s just code for anti-LGBTQ bigotry and racism.