Posted on 04/29/2024 10:44:11 AM PDT by thegagline
Gov. Kristi Noem has “no shot” at being Donald Trump’s running mate after revealing in a forthcoming book that she shot and killed her puppy, sources close to the 45th president tell The Post.
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“She was already unlikely to be picked as VP, but had a shot,” the person said of Noem, who has been widely projected to be on Trump’s shortlist.
“After this, it’s just impossible.”
Noem writes, according to the Guardian, that she executed Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer, after determining that the pooch’s “aggressive personality” made her “untrainable” as a hunting dog.
“It was not a pleasant job,” the 52-year-old recounts, “but it had to be done.”
*** “Trump isn’t a dog person necessarily,” “but I think he understands that you can’t choose a puppy killer as your pick, for blatantly obvious reasons.”
A second source told The Post that Trump “likes Kristi a lot,” but was “disappointed when hearing the ‘dog’ story. ***
Unfettered, Cricket attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another,” according to the governor.
When Noem tried to restrain the dog, Cricket “whipped around to bite me,” and was “the picture of pure joy” during the fowl-killing spree.
In the same excerpt, Noem described in graphic detail her killing a male goat who was “nasty and mean” because it was uncastrated, and “loved to chase” her children around.
To kill the goat, she “dragged him to the gravel pit” where she disposed of Cricket and had to shoot him repeatedly to finish the job.
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100%. she is dead in the water
If I did something like that, no one would know, for I would keep it entirely to myself. Why couldn’t she do that?
Lol .... the optics arent good......
President Trump doesn’t have any dogs and it appears he never has any. But his children are dog lovers and he will value their opinions on this.
that’s how fricking tone deaf she is, apparently
In the past, rural farm people had to do this sort of thing all the time. I imagine they still do sometimes today.
A ridiculous own goal.
It’s good she took herself out of the running before we had another Mitt Romney like story about putting the dog in a box on top of the car.
A pretty face but not too sharp.
he may not have a dog but he has a keen nose for steering the hell away from a toxic VP option. she turned my stomach back when she vetoed the bill to protect women’s sports. she’s a fraud as far as I’m concerned.
COSMICALLY Stoopid career destroyer.
(Good)
She didn’t fully follow the old advice.
Shoot. Shovel. Shut up.
No pun intended...
If you read the entire passage from her book, she didn't just shoot a puppy because it wasn't trained.
The dog had killed other animals and attacked other people. I'm not convinced the dog needed to be put down, but it isn't quite as bad and most are making it out to be.
But Kristi is disqualified in my eyes for being tone deaf enough to not realize that including this story in her autobiography was just asking for a heap of trouble.
Sometimes animals on the farm have to be put down; reluctantly. It is a dirty job.
I have never known of anyone to put down a pet, or a working dog, and then publish the fact in an attempt to build a case they should be elected to higher office.
She didn’t think this through and raises questions about how much she actually thinks.
The media are trying to pick our candidates again.
At best a self-inflicted wound at worst insanity.
That dog won’t hunt.
That goes on all the time and it is humane
Still, I wouldn’t have put that in a book.
She never had a shot to start with.
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