As controversy arose over the story that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem once killed her own dog, it was revealed that Noem actually attempted to tell the story two years earlier.
Noem has found herself in the headlines and almost out of the running to be Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee following revelations that she shot and killed her 14-month-old dog Cricket.
The story was detailed in an excerpt from his new book, titled No turning back: The truth about what’s wrong with politics and how we move America forwardwhich will be released on May 7.
Even congressional Republicans have been willing to go on the record that shooting her dog was a killer of Noem’s vice presidential chances.
Now, Noem has reportedly had the anecdote removed from her 2022 book because publishers were concerned it would damage her brand.
As controversy rages over the story that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem once killed her own dog, it has been revealed that Noem actually attempted to tell the story two years earlier.
Noem wanted the story in the tome ‘Not My First Rodeo: Lessons From the Heartland’ because she believed it showed her as a determined person and unwilling to avoid difficult decisions, according to political.
Hachette Book Group editors and publicists wanted to chop the story up with an axe, as did Noem’s agents, who considered it in bad taste. They finally got their way.
While that book made the New York Times bestseller list and put Noem on Trump’s radar, it didn’t dominate the news cycle.
The difference with the new book, sources say, is that Hachette gave the new book to its conservative-leaning imprint Center Street.
Noem’s team, this time, did not object to sharing the dog-killing story, although Noem’s team has not commented publicly on the report.
The controversy over the dog, which has irritated and angered even her fellow conservatives at her on social media, has forced Noem to do damage control.
“I can understand why some people are upset about a 20-year-old story about Cricket, one of the working dogs on our ranch,” he wrote Sunday on dogs that attack and kill livestock can be left. Since Cricket had shown aggressive behavior towards people by biting them, I decided what I did.’
Noem wanted the story in the tome ‘Not My First Rodeo: Lessons From the Heartland’ because she believed it showed her as a determined person unwilling to avoid difficult decisions.
The story of the dog slaughter was revealed in an excerpt from his new book, titled No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, which will be published on May 7.
‘As I explained in the book, it wasn’t easy. But often the easy way is not the right one.
Noem writes in the new book about the dog she shot in the gravel pit on her family’s property, moments before her children returned from school.
The dog, Noem claimed, had an “aggressive personality” that could not be tamed, as evidenced by the fact that Cricket ruined a pheasant hunt by being “crazy with excitement, chasing all those birds and having fun.” life.’
Additionally, when the governor of South Dakota took Cricket to meet a local family, the dog began killing the family’s chickens like “a trained killer.”
According to an excerpt from a book obtained by the guardianCricket “grabbed one chicken at a time, crushed it to death in one bite, and then dropped it to attack another.”
When Noem finally grabbed the dog, she wrote that Cricket “turned around to bite me.”
Cricket was “the picture of pure joy.” Meanwhile the owner of the chickens was crying.
Noem said she wrote a check “for the price they asked for and helped them get rid of the bodies covering the crime scene.”
The dog, Noem claimed, had an “aggressive personality” that could not be tamed, as evidenced by the fact that Cricket ruined a pheasant hunt by being “crazy with excitement, chasing all those birds and having fun.” life’
Noem is currently in ninth place, tied at the same odds as independent presidential candidate and former Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“I hated that dog,” Noem wrote, believing the 14-month-old dog was “untamable,” “dangerous to anyone he came into contact with” and “less than useless…as a hunting dog.”
So he decided to kill Cricket.
“At that time,” the governor wrote. “I realized I had to put her down.”
He shot Cricket in the family’s gravel pit.
The revelation has proven unpopular and damaging to his reputation across the board, as noted by Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana.
‘Bipartisan outrage! “I was surprised that for once there was not a blue America, there was not a red America, but there was an America,” Cassidy said.
‘That’s crazy. Why would you do that to a puppy? It’s just crazy,’ he said.
