No sooner than last week’s Trump appearance in South Dakota, and talk about Noem as a possible Trump running mate, a hit piece appears. Is it true or merely gossip? I don’t know, but I suspect that this is meant to be a death blow to her future political aspirations.

According to the Daily Mail, Noem and Corey Lewandowski have been carrying on an affair. As you may or may not know, they are both married – but not to each other.

A rising Republican star tipped by many to be Donald Trump‘s running mate should he win the presidential nomination has been involved in a clandestine affair for years, multiple sources tell DailyMail.com.

Married South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, 51 – who stresses her belief in ‘family values’ – and Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski, who is also married, began carrying on in 2019, if not before.

Now news of the relationship threatens to wreck Noem’s chances of joining Trump’s ticket in a potential rematch with President Joe Biden.

Neither denied the affair when asked by DailyMail.com. The Governor issued a statement attacking us for the timing of the article, while Lewandowski did not respond to a request for comment.

[. . .] The far-right website American Greatness claimed in 2021 the two had been romantically involved, although it gave no details.

At the time she scornfully dismissed the story as ‘total garbage and a disgusting lie’, and said she loved her husband and was ‘proud of the God-fearing family’ they had raised, and the story quickly died.

But a DailyMail.com investigation has uncovered extensive evidence of the couple’s romantic relationship: Dozens of trips that mixed business with pleasure, flights on donors’ private planes, and stays at luxury resorts where their intimacy was observed and noted.

There is much more – trashing both Noem and Lewandowski. I don’t know how much of it is true. One thing I do know. The Daily Mail doesn’t care about the morals of either of these people. They DO care about their politics.