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Kristi Noem has ‘no shot’ as Trump’s VP pick after puppy-killing controversy: sources
The New York Post ^ | 04/29/2024 | Diana Glebova

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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To: kaktuskid
I know that and you know this but there are millions of hand wringing liberals and sympathizers that don't and will always criticize others yet never having to face the reality. An animal that has a propensity to bite or kill another animal won't distinguish between the small and larger ones either...they just go from chickens to larger animals. And the goat...shoot it and make cabrito out of it..problem solved.

As for Biden's German Shepherd...once it had bitten three people unprovoked it was obviously a danger and should have been euthanized ASAP after the third incident. The management of this dog reflects the nature of the administration.

121 posted on 04/29/2024 12:39:37 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: spacejunkie2001

Some dogs can’t be trained.

And comparing killing a bad dog with killing a difficult child is insane.

Just as insane as the inevitable pro-lifer who pops up on these threads conflating concern for animals with acceptance of aborting human children.


122 posted on 04/29/2024 12:40:10 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: thegagline

Who cares! She wasn’t going to be the VP pick anyway.


123 posted on 04/29/2024 12:42:57 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Jonny7797

Was it a leftist that wrote the book! I thought she wrote it.


124 posted on 04/29/2024 12:43:01 PM PDT by Kathy in OC
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

https://youtu.be/T5MCn2juMS0?si=sGF76DXLBzs8vffR

Chico wasn’t no slouch either.


125 posted on 04/29/2024 12:48:55 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe!)
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To: spacejunkie2001

puppy?

14 months old.


126 posted on 04/29/2024 12:50:19 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

My source tells me:

Carson is 12/1 and would be in way over his head.

Donalds is 38/1 about 20th choice in the odds

DeSantis is more valuable as Governor of Florida.


127 posted on 04/29/2024 12:51:14 PM PDT by Freest Republican
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To: kiryandil

So now all species mature at the same rate? LOL. Dogs must be much more advanced then humans then, since they learn how to walk much earlier than we do.


128 posted on 04/29/2024 12:56:57 PM PDT by Kathy in OC
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To: chrisinoc

Maybe she could be used for a couple of German Shepherds.


129 posted on 04/29/2024 1:03:35 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT.)
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To: TexasGator

Look it up. Dogs are considered puppies up until they’re 2 years old


130 posted on 04/29/2024 1:06:08 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: thegagline

I shot a dog that bit my daughter .
Anything less is cowardice .


131 posted on 04/29/2024 1:07:42 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: Theodore R.

She did us all a favor by getting it out there.


132 posted on 04/29/2024 1:09:50 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Chico was greatness. Read a book on them.They apparently never learned how to read music. I never did. I find it amazing. I’m just a guitar player.


133 posted on 04/29/2024 1:11:26 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe!)
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To: vetvetdoug

My cute, sweet golden doodle has the propensity to kill other animals. If she could ever catch one of the rabbits, squirrels, lizards, mice, rats or birds
that she continually chases she’d kill it in a second. I guess I’ll take her out and shoot her.


134 posted on 04/29/2024 1:13:14 PM PDT by Kathy in OC
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To: Jamestown1630

The rural people who still do this today are the ones too lazy and cold-blooded, or else too stupid to choose options readily available for dog rescue/re-homing. The woman must be some kind of sociopath. Her career in the public eye is dead.


135 posted on 04/29/2024 1:14:23 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Vendome

She had to shoot the goat twice because the first shot was unsuccessful. Nothing humane about that.


136 posted on 04/29/2024 1:15:44 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: waterhill

I read Harpo’s autobiography not too long ago. Quite a story.


137 posted on 04/29/2024 1:17:32 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HamiltonJay

She’s a sociopath. Also lazy, taking the easy way out. She had options, but losing her temper and reaching for the rifle were less trouble.


138 posted on 04/29/2024 1:19:33 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Responsibility2nd

There are no-kill shelters and sanctuaries all around where I live. It’s a little more trouble, and I guess that sociopath couldn’t be bothered.


139 posted on 04/29/2024 1:21:43 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Scrambler Bob

“Maybe she could be used for a couple of German Shepherds.”

I have two German shepherds now and thirteen over the past 43 years. Best dogs in the world.


140 posted on 04/29/2024 1:24:35 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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