Kristi Noem has been accused of putting out a fake press release about her leaving her latest role in Donald Trump ’s administration.

The Department of State announced last week that Noem’s time as special envoy to the president’s Shield of the Americas security initiative in the Western Hemisphere had come to an end, but that she would continue at the department as a senior adviser.

Noem quickly shared a release on October 16 with State Department letterhead that said her role at the Shield of the Americas was “always a six-month appointment.” The release, posted on X, also confirmed that she remained a senior advisor at the department.

But it is now being reported that the release was not actually authorized by department heads.

“This was not a press release put out by the State Department,” one person familiar with Noem’s work at the State Department told Politico’s Eric Bazail-Eimil.…