D onald Trump reportedly acknowledged South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s recent controversies at a private fundraiser in Manhattan on Tuesday night. Noem, a Republican, received widespread backlash when an excerpt of her now-released book No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward made headlines due to a passage whereby she admitted to shooting and killing her 14-month old dog,

Noem was invited to speak at the local party's annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner amid backlash over shooting and killing a dog two decades ago.

Despite her latest dog-killing controversy, hundreds of people purchased tickets for the Florida fundraiser event, where Kristi Noem gave a keynote speech

Controversial South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's visit to Cape Canaveral drew Democratic protesters who opposed her giving the keynote speech a Brevard County Republican Party event. Noem was invited to speak at the local party's annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner amid backlash from both sides of the aisle this past month for writing in her book about an incident in which she shot and killed a family dog after it attacked a neighbor's chickens and displayed other aggressive behaviors.