Noem says ‘ridicu­lous’ Trump tri­al isn’t impor­tant to peo­ple ‘try­ing to fig­ure out how to pay their gas bill’

Gov. Kristi Noem (R‑SD) mocked the crim­i­nal tri­al against Don­ald Trump, sug­gest­ing that Unit­ed States’s vot­ers aren’t pay­ing it much atten­tion.
Noem appeared on State of the Union with Dana Bash on Sun­day after a week­long jury selec­tion process for Trump’s tri­al in New York. Trump is fac­ing 34 felony counts of alleged­ly fal­si­fy­ing busi­ness records in order to pay hush mon­ey to mul­ti­ple women. Accord­ing to the Repub­li­can gov­er­nor, these alle­ga­tions, along with the 54 oth­er felony charges against the for­mer pres­i­dent, aren’t gar­ner­ing that much atten­tion from the gen­er­al pub­lic.
“That’s what is so shock­ing to me, I guess Dana, is that when I’m walk­ing around this state and talk­ing to peo­ple, talk­ing to peo­ple across the coun­try, they don’t even know which tri­al this is. They’re like, ‘I don’t remem­ber which one this is about,’” Noem said. “What they real­ly care about is that they’re try­ing to fig­ure out how to pay their gas bill.”
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